dbminter Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Have a weird situation. Was wondering if anyone could provide some possible insight. But, I believe, I'll have to get a replacement disc. I bought a comic book collection that was recently released on two data DVD-ROM's. It was a 2 disc set, where Disc 1 is fine. I even ran an image read on it. But, Disc 2 is the nutter. Windows returns it is blank! So, I decided to dig into it a bit and eventually loaded DVDInfo to have a look. Media Information Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO Media code/Manufacturer ID N/A Pressed DVD Format Capacity 3.04GB(3.26GB) Book Type DVD-ROM Media Type DVD-ROM Data area starting sector 30000h Data area end sector 1852E0h Linear Density 0.267um/bit Track Density 0.74um/track Number of Layers 1 Basically, all it's returning is the disc format size, that it's a pressed DVD-ROM, AND a Data area starting and end sector? So, I created an ISO from it. The read was too quick for my taste so I figured something was up. However, the size of the file was roughly on par with the listed format above. Over 3 GB. So, I mounted the image to see if there was data on it, but, Windows returned it was a "Blank CD" on the virtual drive! So, what could possibly be up here? Is there actual data on the disc and there isn't a table of contents? Or what? The ISO read part is what gets me. Granted, I'm not an expert in this field but if it's reading something to the ISO and the ISO is in the 3 GB range, that would seem that there is data on the disc that I just can't get access to. So, is there a way to get to it? Suggestion box is open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Look at it via ISO Buster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted July 8, 2006 Author Share Posted July 8, 2006 Didn't think about that. Will UltraISO do? To load the image and see if there are files or folders? Or something particularly in ISO Buster to view something in the image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted July 8, 2006 Author Share Posted July 8, 2006 UltraISO shows there are folders and files there. And, the test files extracted and viewed okay. So, I'll just extract and burn a new disc. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 ISOBuster is aimed more at file/folder recovery from real drives, whereas I always thought UltraISO was (amongst other things) there for manipulating ISO images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted July 9, 2006 Author Share Posted July 9, 2006 Yeah, this situation was kind of odd. DVDInfo returned a disc size on the DVD, so, I figured there was data on it and used DVDI's ISO creation function to dump the disc to an ISO. Because it did read it, that made me think there may be actual data on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted July 9, 2006 Author Share Posted July 9, 2006 Ah, turns out to be an error at the pressing plant. They added some last minute surprise content, but, the pressing company's software apparently defaults to Mac only format for the discs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volvofl10 Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 sue the ass off them db Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinningwheel Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 db...you never can tell what you'll get from ebay...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted July 10, 2006 Author Share Posted July 10, 2006 No, it was even worse. eBay actually has some kind of chain of command. This was through Diamond Distribution, where they don't give a damn once they've got the money in their hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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