[jersey]

So........I made a single archive of a bunch of info on a dvd(i know, save the lecture). It burned and verifyed fine. I put it away for less than a month, and now it wont read past 480mb of the info on the disc. I am assuming somehow the disc was damaged. Can anyone reccomend a piece of software than my enable me to read the disc? even if it's only one time....



thanks,

-j

[CharlesS]

Are you getting read errors in the Finder? I wrote a little program a while ago to recover stuff off of floppies with bad sectors, but I never tested it with something as large as a DVD. I could let you try it, though, if you'd like. E-mail me at suppo rt [äŧ& amp;#93; cha& #114;less& #111;ft [đ&o slash;Ṱ] co&# 109;.

(sorry that I had to mangle the address in order to make it spambot-proof. Replace the "at" and "dot" with the appropriate characters.)

[jersey]

what its doing is freezing. it work fine until it hits a specific point in the disc and then i can hear the disc slow down in the drive when it encounters the area. at that point i have to relaunch the finder to stop the process and eject the disc. this happens on my ti pb, my girlfriends al pb. an entire lab of g5s wont even mount the disc, and older g4 towers with after-market superdrives mount the disc as blank.

so i am at a bit of a loss right now.

i have the video on a dvd, but i am going to loose quality if i rip the disc, thats why i want the data file.

-j

[CharlesS]

Send me an e-mail, to the address I posted above. If you've got 4.7 GB free on your disk, my program may work. Or it may not. But at least it's worth a try.

[jersey]

you've got mail.

[headbirth]

Any plans to offer your program as freeware/shareware? Sounds handy!

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by headbirth:
Any plans to offer your program as freeware/shareware? Sounds handy!

Depends on whether it works. I haven't tested this on anything larger than a floppy. And damaged disks are not that often encountered...