Isobuster will not create a disc image file unless it knows it will be successful. Just select them in order to try each until one works.

It can replace the corrupted areas with a series of zeros.

It can replace the corrupted areas with fake data.

It can replace the corrupted areas with nothing.In reading the damaged files Isobuster will offer you three alternate methods of dealing with data corruption before it begins the extraction process: This is the quickest, “down and dirty” repair option but often is enough.

Using that you can then burn that image to a new disc.

Try to use Isobuster first to make a disc image file of the original. Once Isobuster has detected the contents of the disc, if you “right click” on the main folder of the disc, Isobuster will show you what it can do and will have the most likely suggestion shown in bold. If it can it will detect the damaged disc and at least show a file structure of what it can find.īear in mind that Isobuster is not a typical menu based program in its layout.Īll the functions of the program are contained within the contextual menu which is shown when you “right click” any item on the screen.

Insert the problem disc into your reader and let Isobuster run. This particular software is suitable for use on DVD discs whether they contain raw data or video, CDs, Game Discs and Blu-ray discs provided you have a Blu-ray reader in your computer.Ĭlick on the link to download the free trial version and install the program. We cannot manipulate or change the data while it is still on the disc regardless of type so to begin with we are going to use a software program called Isobuster and the good news is that if you are lucky the free features may be enough to get you out of trouble. Regardless of what is causing the problem, provided it is not something covered elsewhere on this site, what we first need to do is to get the data off the disc.

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