Copying a DVD-R with errors

[samijubal]

I have a movie on DVD-R that I want to copy, but the last 30 seconds has errors and the drive gets to 99% when reading then stops. Is there any way to copy the disc or am I out of luck? I have 2 DVD burners, both stop at 99% when reading the disc.

[iooi]

What you using to copy it with ?

[samijubal]

Nero

[hech54]

I just did one like this today....however I lost the last "chapter" of the bad DVD. Good thing it was nothing important. I took everything BUT the last chapter with DVDDecrypter set for File Splitting - NONE. Loaded that into Womble MPEG VCR - created one big mpeg file.....then re-authored with TMPGEnc DVD Author....re-inserting my chapters.
The only reason I had to add MPEGVCR to my process was that TDA has reading the wrong file length(hours, minutes, seconds) if I took it straight from DVDDecrypter.

[iooi]

Nero

Try using windows to copy the files to your h/d if that dont work then you in for some fun...
Try giving the disk a good clean first could just be sticky finger prints round the edge.....

[samijubal]

It's a bad spot in the disc itself, checked with CD Speed. One of my DVD players gets to the spot and locks up, the other will play it but with a 5 second or so bad spot. I quit using that brand of discs a long time ago for this reason.

[Capmaster]

This belongs in the DVD to DVDR forum. Moving ....

[samijubal]

Got it to work with decrypter, thanks guys.