as77

BTW: it seems to me that Linux users do have better control over the cd-drive

Yes If only I could command reading any sector range no matter what the drive thinks ... in the same way as in hard disks ... (IsoBuster does but gives unusable data...) apparently it is time to give up

/* I forgot the disk in another city for weeks... */ this was the response (after waiting for quite long a while) in sector viewer dialog, inputting LBA 1237 and checking [RAW]: LBA : 1237 Error: Unrecovered Read Error _ _ _ this was the immediate response in sector viewer dialog, after stepping to LBA 1238: LBA : 1238 Error: Logical Block Address out of Range

as77> I'd like to read in the whole cd to a file, edit the file and burn it. might add that I already wrote some C-language code to "edit" the file(s). It has three command line arguments: - how many first bytes to replace - in which file and - from which file

Well, IsoBuster's "extract-from-to" did write a 600 MB ".iso" file (sectors 1500 - 300000), which looks good in a hex editor but is of no use. It is no real disk image. I made a similar ".iso" of a good audio cd of 60 minutes (single track) but burning this image gave a silent cd of some 70 minutes (my ".iso" sector size 2352 should have been 2048 for this particular purpose?)

Someone in some net forum told it is possible. Would be nice. I Have a disk with some 300 000 sectors of one long audio track (1 hour or so). But my faulty Sony recorder allowed me to accidentally start burning short tracks (1238 sectors) from the very beginning I'd like to read in the whole cd to a file, edit the file and burn it. This is my log file: (note: ImgBurn had auto-ejected the cd while I was away) I 10:36:17 ImgBurn Version 2.5.7.0 started! I 10:36:17 Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1) I 10:36:17 Total Physical Memory: 1 038 788 KB - Available: 250 592 KB I 10:36:17 Initialising SPTI... I 10:36:17 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 10:36:27 -> Drive 1 - Info: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H D200 (D:) (ATA) I 10:36:28 -> Drive 2 - Info: HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 (F:) (USB) I 10:36:28 Found 1 DVD±RW and 1 Unknown! I 10:39:39 Operation Started! I 10:39:39 Source Device: [1:0:0] TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H D200 (D:) (ATA) I 10:39:39 Source Media Type: CD-R (Disc ID: 97m15s17f, Ritek Co.) I 10:39:39 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 4x; 10x; 16x; 20x; 24x I 10:39:39 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 10x; 16x; 20x; 24x I 10:39:39 Source Media Sectors: 1 238 I 10:39:39 Source Media Size: 2 911 776 bytes I 10:39:39 Source Media File System(s): None I 10:39:39 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / 8x I 10:39:39 Destination File: C:\Users\as77\Documents\Image.bin I 10:39:39 Destination Free Space: 17 981 730 816 Bytes (17 560 284,00 KB) (17 148,71 MB) (16,75 GB) I 10:39:39 Destination File System: NTFS I 10:39:39 File Splitting: Auto *** cd auto-ejected, don't now the exact time *** I 13:02:33 Abort Request Acknowledged E 13:02:34 Operation Aborted! - Duration: 02:22:54 E 13:02:34 Average Read Rate: N/A - Maximum Read Rate: N/A