Problem with ridata/ritek dvd

[nick101181]

I burned a movie on a ritek dvd-r the printable 4x ones and it's having problems. Now these are usually known to be good discs but lately, they've been pretty iffy. I noticed if the you get tiniest scratch it won't read at that area. Last night I burned a dvd to one of these disc and when it got towards the end of the movie it wouldn't play frozen, would skip a little bit then freeze permantly and say disc error. This disc has no scratches or lint on it at all. I put the movie in 5 dvd-rom drives and it can't read the end of the disc either. Could this just be a bad disc? Makes me wonder about the other 50 I've burned already Is there anyway I could extract this movie off this disc to burn another copy? I'm thinking it's gonna be hard to decrypt this one since the end is goofed up. Any ideas? thanks in advance

[nick101181]

I just scanned the disc with nero cd-dvd speed test and towards the end the spikes drop down and it says uncorrectable error. I tried to rip the movie to my harddrive using isobuster but when it gets to the Vob that's bad it refuses to save it. Dvd decrypter doesn't even want to open the disc. What can I do to extract this off the bad dvd and burn it again. there is absolutly no scratches or spots or dust or anything on this disc. I don't think I'll be buying the ritek g04's again anytime soon.

[steve2713]

What can I do to extract this off the bad dvd and burn it again.

Sounds like you won't be able to, considering that you've tried ISObuster already. ISObuster is the last resort, and in reality I've yet to have a disc that ISObuster could extract that DVD Decrypter was unable to. You may be able to extract some or most of the files off of the disc using DVD Decrypter though, just extract them one at a time.

[nick101181]

are there any special settings or anything I could try in isobuster? all I did in isobuster was told it to extract the video_ts folder.

[mattyboy]

Is there anyway I could extract this movie off this disc to burn another copy? ? thanks in advance

Why not just re-burn? If you own the original.

[canadateck]

if you have a Paid version of isobuster and it didnt work,I dont think it can be saved,Maybe only some files.

[steve2713]

I know you can change the number of times it retries a given error spot on the disc, but I very seriously doubt you're going to be able to extract the whole disc. I also think that having ISObuster running for a long period of time trying to extract large numbers of errors is not exactly the best for your drive.

You'd probably be better off trying the disc on other drives one at a time if you cannot get it to work on one drive. I know my Toshiba 5112 has been able to recover a few discs that none of my several other drives was able to extract.

[joeg04]

My theory regarding some inkjet printable DVD-Rs is, that the same problem occurs as with paper labels: The printable top layer is warping the disk slightly at the higher temperature in the DVD drive. This might occur, if the printable top layer and the other plastic of the disk have different temperature expansion factors. If the disk is slightly warped, then on the outer side the laser optics can not focus properly.

Are you sure you have RITEKG04 and not RITEKM02? RITEKG04 is no longer in production.

I propose:
- Start ISOBuster and try to read out the data.
Then follow this sequence:
- Wait until an error message occurs.
- Press the eject button of the DVD drive so that the tray opens.
- Wait for 15 minutes so that the DVD-R disk becomes colder.
- Close the tray.
- Click on "retry".
Repeat the sequence for every further error message.

Good luck.

[nick101181]

Yeah I have ritek g04s. I'm gonna try what you suggest then I'll post the results.