Update: IsoPuzzle 1.6 - Recovery program for scratched damaged DVD Data-CD - Page 2

mgpc · 17th November 2006, 15:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by cd090580

Hi,
juste one question. How many pass it does on bad sectors ?????

20000 bad sectors = 20000 passes ???? I hope not

Click the '+' next to 'normal' in the 'Log Window' section, and change the Normal to Verbose, and the log window will show how many reads and failures it makes on each pass.

But yeah, 20000 bad sectors will take a while. Mind you I had a disk than ran to ~100 passes with 2000 bad sectors and not many reads, then it seemed to finish quickly from that point.

Mark

bloodrush · 21st November 2006, 07:27

Wow!! that's all I can say. Greatest program ever. This program has recovered a DVD that I've kept in my closet, praying I could someday recover the data off of it. Thank you so much, worked like a charm. It took 10 hours but it fully recovered data that no other program has gotten close to.
Also, paired with AnyDVD..you can get data off of CSS encrypted discs. I had a retail dvd that always had glitches at the end of the movie due to scratches. I was never able to get DVDdecrypter to fully read it. Loaded up AnyDVD and ISOPuzzle, it was able to pull off those last few bytes to give me a complete ISO finally. Burned off a new copy and....yeah...complete movie. Thanks for the great program.

Mug Funky · 7th December 2006, 04:10

just a small feature request - would it be possible to specify a filename for the ISO file that gets ripped?

marsoupilami · 12th December 2006, 15:59

@bloodrush
Nice to get some positive feedback - Anjong Haseo!

@Mug Funky
Currently I don't have much free time... For one of the next versions I've planned to support VCD which would require some changes (e.g. a differerent fileformat - mds, cue/bin? I have no idea right now...)
But I'll think on it - as I'll do with a "cycle tray" option.

outsiders71 · 15th December 2006, 19:46

marsoupilami,

I just wanted to applaud your work! This program is an essential tool! Thank you!

sirzur · 31st December 2006, 03:18

Thanks for this great tool. I have a question about Sectornumber. I have a writeable DVD-R which I am trying to rip. I have used one drive to rip and then tried it in another. However I am getting "Sectornumber sould be XXX. Drive reports XXX"

I presume that the Sectornumber is to make sure that information on one disk is not accidently overwritten onto another. Even if the sectonumbers are different, would it still be possible to use the import function or use another drive to rip the problem disk? If it is possible, can the program be modified such that it would continue even if there ae different sectornumbers. Of course, if that is the case, then there should be warnings about the effect of overwriting one disk on another etc etc.

PS I have also been following advise on freezing the diska nd then reripping
Cheers

marsoupilami · 8th January 2007, 16:29

sirzur,

You are right! The sectornumber is checked to prevent ripping different disks to the same image and also to determine the size of the flagfile.
Overwriting the drive reported sectornumber will be possible in the next version for a different reason: some erroneous disks report size 0 (I guess because the session is unclosed).
If you don't like to wait a few weeks for the next version there is a - not really recommended - workaround (please don't beat me, if it's not working):
Make the 1st ripping attempt on that drive, which reports the larger size. You can edit the "total number of sectors" which is the first double word in the flagfile. This will produce only a "checksum error" which can be ignored...
Edit:

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirzur

However I am getting "Sectornumber sould be XXX. Drive reports XXX"

What difference is reported? Only a few sectors?

Piyoko · 10th January 2007, 03:47

I just have to thank you for this awesome application! I had a bonus disc from a retail DVD that came loose during shipping and was badly scratched. Tried DVD Decrypter on a bunch of different drives and it was just doing retry upon retry upon retry without getting anywhere. So I also put AnyDVD in the background to get rid of the CSS and let this app run, and after only 10 minutes and a couple of passes over the problematic section I had a perfect iso on my hard drive. Awesome!

sirzur · 12th January 2007, 01:42

I can't remember the difference between the sector numbers but it is quite small.

I think I will wait for a new version rather than editing the flag file

marsoupilami · 22nd January 2007, 19:41

Well!
The new version 1.4 will have:
.) A Force Volumesize dialog for fooling the disksize
(for solving the "empty disk" and the "different sectornumber" problems) - be careful!
.) A Cycle Tray checkbox
.) The Filenames are now only suggested

LakersFan · 22nd January 2007, 23:04

Sounds great. Looking forward to using this. I love the cycle tray option.

Thank you.

ilpippo80 · 23rd January 2007, 11:48

Hello Masoupilami,
first of all thanks, great program, it's really useful!
One small feature request:
I wanted to tinker with the number of skipped sectors to see if I can get any speed improvement with it... Do you think it's possible for you to add a switch (maybe just in the ini file so probably it would be easier for you) to choose a fixed number and not a random one for it?
Thanks!

LProof · 23rd January 2007, 19:56

Thank you so much for this wonderful program. I've already recovered 3 bad DVDs I had no hope of recovering before!

Possibly something obvious that I'm missing - but is there a way to tell exactly which sectors are missing - a program I can use to read the *.flg file? Wordpad gives me gibberish.

marsoupilami · 23rd January 2007, 23:28

@ilpippo80
There would be a lot of switches & adjustments - but I tried to keep the use as simple as possible.
Besides: The random number of skipped sectors is adapted to the missing part - the more sectors are missing the larger the steps.

@LProof
If You have a look to the flagfile with a hexeditor: following the header every bit represents one sector

snn47 · 30th January 2007, 11:02

Is there a way to use DVD-RAM with the programm?

While I had had no problem so far in reading DVD-RAM, unlike CD- & DVD-r(w), I am wondering is there a way at all to recover data from scratched/unaccessable DVD-RAM, if it should happen?

mgpc · 28th February 2007, 19:14

And is there any way to get it to read a disc (DVD-R), which burned and verified ok, including a check with Nero Cd/Dvd-Speed Scandisk...

and now, about a year later is showing as an empty disc! It's *not*, I don't LABEL discs until I've verified I can read the content, ever.

And I've got about a dozen of them, and they are all Datawrite Yellow's with absolutely useless CMC MAG AE1 dye. Imgburn says they are empty, so does Isobuster and IsoPuzzle, but they AREN'T. Visibly they aren't!

I will never buy anything but Taiyo-Yudens again, even if they are more expensive.

marsoupilami, is there any way to force IP to just read off all the data, even if the disc appears to be empty? Maybe then I can get IsoBuster to scan the ISO for me and extract at least some of the data.

Mark

Oops, just looked at the Changelog for 1.4, it looks like it already does this, let's go and check.....

Umm that's recovered 2 for 2 so far, with the third proceeding happily, though on one disc it took ages (10min+) to go off Drive Not Ready.

marsoupilami · 28th February 2007, 21:36

@snn47
Sorry - I have no DVD-RAM ... neither at home nor in our company

@mgpc
Sorry but maybe I'll dissapoint You too...

A few years ago I also had a couple of SWISSTEC disks which verified ok and a few month later they seemed to be 'empty'.
Although the surface shows exactly which region of the disks had been written to - I could not recover even one sector!
I definitely did not store these disks in light or hot areas - they seem to have been rotten in the dark....

I hope You will have more luck and you got it in the beginning of the dissolving process!

mgpc · 28th February 2007, 21:55

marsoupilami, I'm currently at 4 discs read fine, 1 that had a couple of read errors so I've paused it at the moment, and 1 more on the way, plus one I haven't been able to get anything off yet because IP never comes back saying Drive Not Ready, even though ImgBurn reads the disc info quite quickly, but I guess it's reading elsewhere on the disc.

Thanks again.

Mark

mgpc · 28th February 2007, 22:08

For those discs that don't seem to come back from DriveNotReady, any chance we could have an option to NOT try to get any details off the disc, like the drive reported sectors or the label, and just start reading, to the full size of the media. I realise this will get lots of errors towards the end of the disc, but might still get enough data to be useful.
Force Size = Max for this media maybe? With possibly an option to reduce the size when we figure out where the end of the written data is? And I've just come across another disc that IP won't even start on because it can't read the label. Does it ever timeout?

Now at 5 read ok, one with some errors and 3 saying DriveNotReady.

IP is brilliant!

<pedant>BTW, on the doco page for IP1.4 you have a heading of 'Cylce Tray' instead of 'Cycle Tray'.</pedant>

mgpc · 1st March 2007, 13:59

I have now recovered 8 out of 9 discs that Imgburn says are empty, the last one IsoPuzzle sat trying to read the disc details for about 10 hours before I gave up. It sometimes took half a dozen disc mounts before IP found the details, but then it recovered them perfectly, even the disc that had errors reading first time.

Mark

7th December 2006, 04:10	#23 \| Link
Mug Funky interlace this! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: i'm in ur transfers, addin noise Posts: 4,555	just a small feature request - would it be possible to specify a filename for the ISO file that gets ripped? __________________ sucking the life out of your videos since 2004

12th December 2006, 15:59	#24 \| Link
marsoupilami Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Austria Posts: 105	@bloodrush Nice to get some positive feedback - Anjong Haseo! @Mug Funky Currently I don't have much free time... For one of the next versions I've planned to support VCD which would require some changes (e.g. a differerent fileformat - mds, cue/bin? I have no idea right now...) But I'll think on it - as I'll do with a "cycle tray" option. __________________ Houmba! IsoPuzzle has a new home SubSplicer is born! http://members.aon.at/marsoupilami/

22nd January 2007, 19:41	#30 \| Link
marsoupilami Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Austria Posts: 105	Well! The new version 1.4 will have: .) A Force Volumesize dialog for fooling the disksize (for solving the "empty disk" and the "different sectornumber" problems) - be careful! .) A Cycle Tray checkbox .) The Filenames are now only suggested __________________ Houmba! IsoPuzzle has a new home SubSplicer is born! http://members.aon.at/marsoupilami/ Last edited by marsoupilami; 22nd January 2007 at 20:27.

23rd January 2007, 23:28	#34 \| Link
marsoupilami Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Austria Posts: 105	@ilpippo80 There would be a lot of switches & adjustments - but I tried to keep the use as simple as possible. Besides: The random number of skipped sectors is adapted to the missing part - the more sectors are missing the larger the steps. @LProof If You have a look to the flagfile with a hexeditor: following the header every bit represents one sector __________________ Houmba! IsoPuzzle has a new home SubSplicer is born! http://members.aon.at/marsoupilami/

30th January 2007, 11:02	#35 \| Link
snn47 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: D-FRA Posts: 71	any DVD-RAM support? Is there a way to use DVD-RAM with the programm? While I had had no problem so far in reading DVD-RAM, unlike CD- & DVD-r(w), I am wondering is there a way at all to recover data from scratched/unaccessable DVD-RAM, if it should happen?

21st November 2006, 07:27	#22 \| Link
bloodrush Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Busan, S. Korea & L.A. Posts: 24	Wow!! that's all I can say. Greatest program ever. This program has recovered a DVD that I've kept in my closet, praying I could someday recover the data off of it. Thank you so much, worked like a charm. It took 10 hours but it fully recovered data that no other program has gotten close to. Also, paired with AnyDVD..you can get data off of CSS encrypted discs. I had a retail dvd that always had glitches at the end of the movie due to scratches. I was never able to get DVDdecrypter to fully read it. Loaded up AnyDVD and ISOPuzzle, it was able to pull off those last few bytes to give me a complete ISO finally. Burned off a new copy and....yeah...complete movie. Thanks for the great program.

15th December 2006, 19:46	#25 \| Link
outsiders71 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 75	marsoupilami, I just wanted to applaud your work! This program is an essential tool! Thank you!

31st December 2006, 03:18	#26 \| Link
sirzur Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2	Thanks for this great tool. I have a question about Sectornumber. I have a writeable DVD-R which I am trying to rip. I have used one drive to rip and then tried it in another. However I am getting "Sectornumber sould be XXX. Drive reports XXX" I presume that the Sectornumber is to make sure that information on one disk is not accidently overwritten onto another. Even if the sectonumbers are different, would it still be possible to use the import function or use another drive to rip the problem disk? If it is possible, can the program be modified such that it would continue even if there ae different sectornumbers. Of course, if that is the case, then there should be warnings about the effect of overwriting one disk on another etc etc. PS I have also been following advise on freezing the diska nd then reripping Cheers

10th January 2007, 03:47	#28 \| Link
Piyoko Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 29	I just have to thank you for this awesome application! I had a bonus disc from a retail DVD that came loose during shipping and was badly scratched. Tried DVD Decrypter on a bunch of different drives and it was just doing retry upon retry upon retry without getting anywhere. So I also put AnyDVD in the background to get rid of the CSS and let this app run, and after only 10 minutes and a couple of passes over the problematic section I had a perfect iso on my hard drive. Awesome!

12th January 2007, 01:42	#29 \| Link
sirzur Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2	I can't remember the difference between the sector numbers but it is quite small. I think I will wait for a new version rather than editing the flag file

22nd January 2007, 23:04	#31 \| Link
LakersFan Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 84	Sounds great. Looking forward to using this. I love the cycle tray option. Thank you.

23rd January 2007, 11:48	#32 \| Link
ilpippo80 Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Neverland Posts: 79	Hello Masoupilami, first of all thanks, great program, it's really useful! One small feature request: I wanted to tinker with the number of skipped sectors to see if I can get any speed improvement with it... Do you think it's possible for you to add a switch (maybe just in the ini file so probably it would be easier for you) to choose a fixed number and not a random one for it? Thanks!

23rd January 2007, 19:56	#33 \| Link
LProof Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1	Thank you so much for this wonderful program. I've already recovered 3 bad DVDs I had no hope of recovering before! Possibly something obvious that I'm missing - but is there a way to tell exactly which sectors are missing - a program I can use to read the *.flg file? Wordpad gives me gibberish.

28th February 2007, 19:14	#36 \| Link
mgpc Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 8	And is there any way to get it to read a disc (DVD-R), which burned and verified ok, including a check with Nero Cd/Dvd-Speed Scandisk... and now, about a year later is showing as an empty disc! It's not, I don't LABEL discs until I've verified I can read the content, ever. And I've got about a dozen of them, and they are all Datawrite Yellow's with absolutely useless CMC MAG AE1 dye. Imgburn says they are empty, so does Isobuster and IsoPuzzle, but they AREN'T. Visibly they aren't! I will never buy anything but Taiyo-Yudens again, even if they are more expensive. marsoupilami, is there any way to force IP to just read off all the data, even if the disc appears to be empty? Maybe then I can get IsoBuster to scan the ISO for me and extract at least some of the data. Mark Oops, just looked at the Changelog for 1.4, it looks like it already does this, let's go and check..... Umm that's recovered 2 for 2 so far, with the third proceeding happily, though on one disc it took ages (10min+) to go off Drive Not Ready. Last edited by mgpc; 28th February 2007 at 21:15. Reason: Speeling :-) and I didn't RTFM :-(

28th February 2007, 21:36	#37 \| Link
marsoupilami Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Austria Posts: 105	@snn47 Sorry - I have no DVD-RAM ... neither at home nor in our company @mgpc Sorry but maybe I'll dissapoint You too... A few years ago I also had a couple of SWISSTEC disks which verified ok and a few month later they seemed to be 'empty'. Although the surface shows exactly which region of the disks had been written to - I could not recover even one sector! I definitely did not store these disks in light or hot areas - they seem to have been rotten in the dark.... I hope You will have more luck and you got it in the beginning of the dissolving process! __________________ Houmba! IsoPuzzle has a new home SubSplicer is born! http://members.aon.at/marsoupilami/

28th February 2007, 21:55	#38 \| Link
mgpc Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 8	marsoupilami, I'm currently at 4 discs read fine, 1 that had a couple of read errors so I've paused it at the moment, and 1 more on the way, plus one I haven't been able to get anything off yet because IP never comes back saying Drive Not Ready, even though ImgBurn reads the disc info quite quickly, but I guess it's reading elsewhere on the disc. Thanks again. Mark Last edited by mgpc; 28th February 2007 at 21:57.

28th February 2007, 22:08	#39 \| Link
mgpc Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 8	For those discs that don't seem to come back from DriveNotReady, any chance we could have an option to NOT try to get any details off the disc, like the drive reported sectors or the label, and just start reading, to the full size of the media. I realise this will get lots of errors towards the end of the disc, but might still get enough data to be useful. Force Size = Max for this media maybe? With possibly an option to reduce the size when we figure out where the end of the written data is? And I've just come across another disc that IP won't even start on because it can't read the label. Does it ever timeout? Now at 5 read ok, one with some errors and 3 saying DriveNotReady. IP is brilliant! <pedant>BTW, on the doco page for IP1.4 you have a heading of 'Cylce Tray' instead of 'Cycle Tray'.</pedant> Last edited by mgpc; 28th February 2007 at 22:29.

1st March 2007, 13:59	#40 \| Link
mgpc Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 8	I have now recovered 8 out of 9 discs that Imgburn says are empty, the last one IsoPuzzle sat trying to read the disc details for about 10 hours before I gave up. It sometimes took half a dozen disc mounts before IP found the details, but then it recovered them perfectly, even the disc that had errors reading first time. Mark Last edited by mgpc; 1st March 2007 at 15:49.

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