what's a good scratched/faulty media ripper?

[MackemX]

we all know how easily media is scratched and someone asked me how to to rip a scratched CD-R & DVD-R that has photo's and other stuff on

after a quick search I came across Media Doctor Pro which is the closest thing to what I'd suggest (it has a 30 day full feature trial which is pretty good)

http://www.mediadoctor.net/

it's better than using Windows Explorer as it fills in the dummies with blanks so you get at least some of the file back instead of nothing at all! The only thing is that you don't know which file it's ripping at the time so don't know where it's struggling. You also cannot skip the currently ripping file if it's obvious it's too corrupt so therefore have to see what's been ripped and what hasn't before starting the whole selection process again. If you have a lot of errors then it takes absolutely ages as it reads each bad sector

ideally something that gave an option so that after so many sector read errors within that file then it would give up and move onto the next file. DVDDecrypter was good for bad sectors on DVD's but obviously that is for DVD's whereas I was just looking at ripping files. I tried using the ISO read option which is the same thing but if it comes to a bad scratch then it also takes ages and ISO's suck for quick file access/editing anyway

anyone know anything better?

[redwudz]

I don't know if it would work any better, but ISObuster comes to mind for reading scratched discs.

[MackemX]

cheers

I had an ancient version of ISOBuster so I downloaded version 1.8. Looks pretty good as you can cancel the file if you have issues . The only thing is that if there a few photos within the disc corrupted then that means you'd have to cancel each one so therefore have to sit and watch it struggle . It also doesn't show the full path so again you may not know which file it's struggling with

Ideally a sector fail amount per file would be cool 8). I don't think it would be too hard to do and I wonder of someone has suggested this to the ISOBuster guys, probably have

I wonder if stuff like this is in the full version, anyone used it?

[dfgh11]

Try it on various drives. I have an old Panasonic drive, that reads/rips some discs(scratched or just stubborn) that my Pioneer110 doesn't or won't.

[MackemX]

yeah, I often used multiple drives in the past when trying to rip scratched DVD's and each drive had various results . This isn't my disc I'm trying to recover anyway so I'm not bothering to change drives, if I can't get a decent software ripper then I'll just tell the guy to take better care of his stuff

[b1tchm4gn3t]

Best one I have ever seen is DVD DATA RESCUE, this thing read shit off disks that friends gave me when they were scratched, dye looking funny(like some kind of bad burn I had never seen before). Some disks I would have bet money there was no way to recover files off them but I found this. Its pay though, as the trial just shows you what it CAN recover off the disk. But IMHO, its the best as what it does.

[MackemX]

isobuster worked pretty well as it tells you when it finds a bad sector and you can ignore it. If I preview the file using explorer it won't show the image but opening it up in PSP and saving it rebuilds the file. So for the sake of one bad sector you can still recover the image

the only downside is that it doesn't insert a dummy sector if you ignore so the picture may be unaligned in parts though you can cut n paste it

[ScannerWA]

I don't know if it would work any better, but ISObuster comes to mind for reading scratched discs.

I'm looking for something vaguely similar... I'm looking for a diagnostics program that will simply tell me if the DVDR has bad sectors in it. I don't need to know how many or where... I have a large number of DVDR's that I need to determine if are either completely good, or if they have bad sectors that would prevent me from copying any of the files on the DVDR or not.

Anyone know of a program that can quickly and simply determine just that?

Thanks

[piano632]

I'm looking for a diagnostics program that will simply tell me if the DVDR has bad sectors in it. I don't need to know how many or where... I have a large number of DVDR's that I need to determine if are either completely good, or if they have bad sectors that would prevent me from copying any of the files on the DVDR or not.

Anyone know of a program that can quickly and simply determine just that?

How about Nero CD-DVD Speed in Disc Scan mode?
http://www.cdspeed2000.com/

[ScannerWA]

Awesome... I'll check it out! Thanks very much!

[offline]

http://www.cdroller.com/ works well with pioneer. Can't say I've heard of Media Doctor though. Scratched DL are a real issue to recover.

[jollyjohn]

Have you tried "BadCopy Pro"? It recovers deleted data even fom cameras.