Is there any way to force rip a scratch dvd?

[tendra]

I've a dvd disk which is a little bit scratch but it read find on a dvd player but can't copy to my pc.Is there any software to force rip it or what ever it is to get that video?Or how should fix that dvd?That is my last one so i can't mess it up.

[AlanHK]

Isopuzzle.

[guns1inger]

Isopuzzle is very good, but if the scratch is deep enough, even it can be beaten. You can use white toothpaste to gently buff the scratch down to give Isopuzzle a better chance. I would clean the disc carefully with warn water and gentle soap and try to rip it first with Isopuzzle. Let it takes as long as it needs, which might well be several hours. If it cannot proceed after a while, try buffing the scratch down some, then ripping again.

[RabidDog]

Img Burn set error retrys to 3 .. .. otherwise it could take hours.
Trying to read and re-read a badly scratched DVD could burn out your DVD drive ::: worst case scenario

[AlanHK]

Img Burn set error retrys to 3 .. .. otherwise it could take hours.
Trying to read and re-read a badly scratched DVD could burn out your DVD drive ::: worst case scenario

Isopuzzle has a cool down cycle. So it's safe to leave running for days, if necessary.

[lordsmurf]

ISO Puzzle.

Toothpaste doesn't work. I heard that years ago, tried it many times, and it usually just made the situation worse. It's a really bad myth.

In many cases, it might be necessary to have the disc re-buffed professionally. Don't try one of those piece-of-crap "Disc Doctor" devices, you've been warned.

It's also often necessary to try a better DVD drive, usually a burner from BTC, sometimes Pioneer. Many drives actually read quite poorly.

[guns1inger]

I understand fully that anecdotal evidence amounts to very little, and is far from scientific, therefore your mileage may vary. However I have been able to use small amounts of white toothpaste with gentle buffing to get data from a scratched disc. This is not a disc repair method by any stretch, with the final disc being unplayable in standard DVD players. The point of the exercise was to allow recovery software such as ISOpuzzle to read the data from a disc from which it previously could not. In several cases it has worked for me.

[FulciLives]

I tried the white toothpaste thing recently on a scratched CD that EAC couldn't read ... all it did was scratch the CD so bad that it was 10 times worse than before.

I had to toss it out.

Twas a very rare CD but luckily a friend of mine has it so heh

I have found that hot water and dish washing soap works well for cleaning a disc and has helped to make some discs readable that otherwise had errors but if the scratches are very bad then that won't do much but I always clean a disc first before ripping it unless it's like brand new (i.e., I now rip all music CD's as soon as I buy them and open them up).

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[AlanHK]

My (anecdotal) last resort: when Isopuzzle can recover 70-80% and then grinds away for hours without getting more, I give the disc a polish with Brasso.
This is an abrasive, it grinds down the surface. It does take the shine off, but it's still readable, in my experience, and has always allowed me to get more, sometimes all, the disc data -- Isopuzzle can add data from successive reads, so I can polish it a bit, rinse and dry the disc, then pop it back for another session.

Take care to have the disc on a firm backing, don't polish it while holding in your hand as flexing it will crack it.

Even if you don't get to 100%, you can try opening the ISO file in various programs and extracting data, and even if they fail it's not so dramatic as the crash and reboot you may get when trying to read from the actual damaged disc.

I pick up a lot of second hand discs at flea markets, some are in poor condition, this has allowed me to rescue ones that were otherwise trash.

[cal_tony]

ISO Puzzle.

Toothpaste doesn't work. I heard that years ago, tried it many times, and it usually just made the situation worse. It's a really bad myth.

Well, with that I would agree. I've heard it and done it and always ended up with a disk with more scratches. Just tried to copy one of my old disks that was scratched onto my USB drive and one vob was just stuck.

Reached for the old standby that I've found to be the most useful cleaner.... Spray Polish. I had to use Behold twice before I could get that vob, but I got it. I spray it on and clean it off right away with a paper towel so no more soap and water for me.

I havn't used Iso puzzle but I did just download it so thanks for the info on that. I've tried DiskDoctor, it's kind of buggy on when it wants to load and what it wants to load. For me it wont work unless I load something into Daemon and have DiskDoctor check that first.

Tony

[gll99]

I've a dvd disk which is a little bit scratch but it read find on a dvd player but can't copy to my pc.Is there any software to force rip it or what ever it is to get that video?Or how should fix that dvd?That is my last one so i can't mess it up.

What software are you using to back up this disc?

You say that the disc plays in your DVD players and I know stand alone players are often more forgiving of errors but could it be the copy protection and not the scratches that are stopping you from copying this disc?

If it's a fairly recent disc then you need to use the latest versions of DVDfab HD Decrypter or Anydvd. DVDfab HD Decrypter is free for DVD to DVD backup.

btw) What do you mean by "That is my last one so i can't mess it up."? Are you by any chance trying to copy straight from disc to disc?

[orsetto]

Here and there you also come up against disc damage thats just plain weird. I recently had trouble backing up a rare DVD which had a couple of near-invisible scratches, neither DVDfab or CloneDVD could get past the halfway mark and ISObuster took 48 hours to get from 46% to 56%, at which point I said screw it. I tried washing, treating, etc, still no dice. Then it dawned on me that I had neglected the first obvious fallback: alternate hardware. I'm in the middle of a huge tape dubbing project, so right now I only have DVD recorders hooked up to my display. This disc would totally lock and freeze any recorder I tried to play it in, which is what drove me to try and make a repaired copy in the first place. As a last-ditch effort, I hooked up my old 2001 Panasonic RV31 dvd player, and damn if the old warhorse didn't play the entire disc without a hiccup! So I patched it thru a DataVideo TBC to a DVD recorder, and got a very serviceable analog backup copy that can be played anywhere.

Its easy to forget that "higher technology" sometimes trips over itself while "low technology" can sometimes just bulldoze its way thru. The generic sealed PC-style burners in computers and recorders are often not as forgiving to weird subtle media damage as the flimsy "custom"readers built into DVD players. After eight years my old crappy Panasonic player continues to astound me with its read performance on damaged discs: if I could get a PC drive with that level of reading ability I'd gladly pay $100 for it.

[CobraPilot]

Gotta put in my $0.02 worth . . . .

Folks who say "X won't work" as if that's the final answer to the question are reflecting their own experiences.

As is ALWAYS the case, "Your mileage may vary."

I've had good luck with white toothpaste overcoming scratches, but my scratches may not have been as deep as those who say, "it never works." No way to measure and compare.

Does it ALWAYS work for me? No. Does it SOMETIMES work? Yes. When it works, does the DVD play in at least some of my DVD players? Yes. When they still won't play, does the effort seem to make it easier for DVDFab to produce a usable rip without taking 48 hours? Yes.

Another method: I have one of those handheld rotary CD/DVD surface cleaners and have used a little paste car polish on the buffer pads to rough polish the balky DVD, then followed that up with a light manual buffing with a soft cloth with just a little liquid car wax.

My non-scientific evaluation: The car polish seems to smooth out many of the imperfections and scratches, and the liquid car wax seems to "fill in" the scratches.

When I've escalated beyond the toothpaste trick (and I usually skip it altogether and just use the car polish), does it ALWAYS work for me? No. Does it SOMETIMES work? Yes. Does it OFTEN work? Yes. When it works, does the DVD play in at least some of my DVD players? Yes. When they still won't play, does the effort seem to make it easier for DVDFab to produce a usable rip? Yes.

Your mileage may vary.

[rvman]

Years ago, I ripped three hundred or so audio CDs for a friend. Many were pretty badly scratched and Exact Audio Copy choked on a lot of them. I bought one of those CD cleaning kits that included a mildly abrasive paste and a polishing solution. I'd guess maybe one in ten discs I tried to repair were improved using it. It didn't seem to make any of the discs worse. When I finished off the kit, I decided to try toothpaste, since I only had a few more CDs left to rip and I didn't want to go the expense of buying more repair solution. It made the disc totally unreadable. Obviously, I should have known better. There are dozens of brands of toothpaste and some are going to be more abrasive than others. Those that have had good luck with toothpaste were lucky to to have a brand on hand that was not too abrasive.