Is it still possible to backup DVD if it is damaged/scratch?

[pwangdel]

Greetings:

I have a chinese DVD movie in my collection which is scratched toward the end of the movies where the trailers is. Both of my DVD-rw (8X Dual layer BenQ and Nec ND3000A refuse to read this portion and hang up. Is there a way to backup the movie's portion only and ignore the rest before it's getting worse?

Note the scratch is neither big or profound, since my standalone DVD player is able to play it without any problem.

I am using Nero Ultra Ed 6 and DVDshrink 3.1 & 3.2

Thanks in advance for your advice and help.

[steve2713]

Try backing it up with DVD Decrypter - I've often had it back up scratched DVDs easily when DVD Shrink would choke on them.


Also, you could try backing the disc up file by file using DVD Decrypter if the damaged area happens to only cover one particular file.

[pwangdel]

Many thanks for your suggestion. U save me a lot of headache and time

I just give DVD Decryptor a shot. It's still unable to read the scratch portion. However, it doesn't hang up and give me an option to ignore the errors. I just burn the backup disc and everything seems to be fine so far.

By the way, do you ripp your DVD movie using the split files to multiple 1GB chunk? I am just wondering what is it advantage / disavantage over one big 4GB files instead

[steve2713]

Good to hear that you are getting further along in backing up the disc. I've always backed up into 1gb chunks, I backed up as one large file once and I had problems burning it, IIRC. So I've always split it up since then. I believe it has to do with incompatibilty of DVD to support larger than 1gb in standard compliance, of course I'm probably remembering that wrong.

[kurtisdraven]

Hey,

Yeah DVD Decryptor can usually get past errors. If it's in the trailer why don't you strip the movie to movie only or movie only with menu's? Personally I don't see a trailer to be that important.

On the 1gb chunk thing... I'd say there must be positive reasons for doing it as every commercial DVD I've seen is split into 1gb chunks. Also helps with backing up if the files are more individual as only one file may be damaged instead of the only file on the disc.

Regards,
Kurtis Draven.

[jimmalenko]

On the 1gb chunk thing... I'd say there must be positive reasons for doing it as every commercial DVD I've seen is split into 1gb chunks. Also helps with backing up if the files are more individual as only one file may be damaged instead of the only file on the disc.

... not to mention that little DVD standard compliance issue ...

[guns1inger]

I also use DVD X Rescue (from the now defunct 321Studios). It has been able to beat problems that left Decrypter lost. Just nice to have the extra feather in the bow.

[dfluke]

It probably easier just to buff out the scratch with some toothpaste. Do a search to find other methods to remove scratches.

[deck]

I'd try the toothpaste trick. It dosen't work all the time but has had a better than 50% success rate for me.

[Epicurus8a]

I've experienced similar problems in the past. Sometimes the disc has a defect (like a pimple). The ripper programs work up to a point. But I've had better luck with ISOBuster. Even then I only rescued about 1/2 the disc.

[pwangdel]

Thank you all for your additional comments.

I can re-author the DVD the way you describe using DVDShrink, since it hang at the same spot no matter what. It doesn't give me the option to ignore the error and continue like DVD Decryptor. Once DVD Decryptor finish ripping the DVD, I have a whole bunch of file and don't know which file is trailer, which file is important or not. So I just backup the whole thing. I will take a deeper look at DVD Decryptor and see if there is a feature to re-author just the movie and ignore the rest.

[verchad]

I have a bro-in-law who used car wax on the back of a scratched dvd and got it to work, it's worth a shot.

[harley2ride]

I have used a Disk Doctor (has a wheel and a belt), crank the handle, and it removes most scratches on cd's/dvd's. It actually removes part of of surface. Then I copy the cd/dvd onto a new one. Hasn't failed me yet. Got mine at ebgames. It has been a lifesaver. I have kids, and they are constantly leaving game disks laying around. I use the disk doctor on at least a montly basis to fix my cd's/dvd's.

[Gurm]

Do a search in here and you'll find many methods mentioned, from meguire's car wax to plain white toothpaste. My personal recommendation is the toothpaste. It's absurdly cheap (go buy whatever plain white toothpaste is cheapest at the supermarket, I'm talking the $1 a tube no-name stuff here, the cheaper the better), easy to apply, and hey if it doesn't work... just rinse it off with water.

[CoffeeGuy]

1) What is the tooth pick method ?

2) What would you use with the tooth paste to buff out a scratch ? Bare finger ? Cotton T-shirt ? Tooth brush ? sponge ? And, when you're doing this, are you moving in an up and down, or circular, or figure 8 motion ? Or does it matter ?

[zappafan]

I have some scratched DVDs that will play fine on my stand-alone DVD player but will NOT copy. I have tried DVDShrink, DVDDecryptor, and SmartRipper and they all fail.

I have a Sony, I think it's a DU-500A or something like that. Are some DVD writers better at reading scratched DVDs than others?

[Gurm]

1. Buy a tube of AIM or something.

2. Clean the disc (with warm water, or with a CD-cleaning solution). Dry well.

3a. Using your finger or a q-tip, doesn't really matter which, smear the toothpaste into the scratch.

3b. Rub it in real good. Use plenty.

4. Wait for it to dry.

5. Using a t-shirt or some other soft, lint-free cloth, clean/polish the disc as you normally would. (For me this means going around the disc with circular buffing motions, but it hardly matters if the cloth is clean and lint-free).

6. Try it now.

[plimper]

Hello my dear friends!!!
My solution is one!!!
Alchohol 120%!!!
1 make image and tick skip read errors.
2 burn image with it and there you go.
Caution!!! Depending on how much damaged your dvd is you wait until it finishes.It will take from 10min to 3 or 5 days to make the image because it skips every single sector.
But at the end you have one new fresh copy of your scratched dvd!!!

Friendly Plimper.

[HatchetMan]

http://www.skipdoctor.com/ works the best, hands down! Got mine at Best Buy.

[Garibaldi]

I believe it has to do with incompatibilty of DVD to support larger than 1gb in standard compliance, of course I'm probably remembering that wrong.

And Fat32 only supports 4 GB files, so you may be okay on NTSF.