Read errors - bad sectors. Any hope?

[ann]

I was recording a DVD+RW on my Philip DVDR70. Weeks go by, and then I decide to reauthor the DVD on my computer.

Get read errors. Most likely a bad sector or two.

Now I'd like some advice before proceding.

My newer regular DVD player can play DVD+RW discs. Do it quite often. Is there any risk of that player locking up? Or can I play the disc in it, and the player won't suffer?

Is there anything I can do to rip it on the computer?

[canadateck]

Use Isobuster,This should get the Video to the hard-drive.

[Denvers Dawgs]

I have a question about ISOBUSTER. If the disc that you're trying get video from, has errors on it. 1.Does Isobuster just skip thos sectors? 2.do you then lose partial parts of the movie? If you skip a sector then yuo lose that porition of the film?

[canadateck]

Really the bottom line is if it's "there" Isobuster will get it off the Disc, if it cant read it, then yes it will skip it and you will be missing some of the file. I have had a disc that took more then 12 hours to rip onto the hard-drive,but in the end (ALL) of it was there,Other times it had to skip it.

[canadateck]

What other software will skipp Isobuster will try and try to get in off.so if you get Read errors with other software,this doesnt mean Isobuster cant get it,This is the main Idea of Isobuster.

[Denvers Dawgs]

This is a stupid question but if I get a few errors at the ond of a disc, will that infect the whole disc? Like spread through out (get some errors at beginning of disc) over time or will just those sectors be affected? Sometimes I sound like such a noob....