Various errors backing up old games to ISOs

[and299]

Moving to a computer without any DVD drives so I'm backing up all of my games to ISOs. One game is Age of Empires 3, which has 3 CDs to it. CDs 2 and 3 copy to ISOs without any problems.

 

CD 1 however gives me different errors depending on what drive I use. All of them are "failed to read sector ___", and they are either accompanied by "L-EC Uncorrectable Error", "Timeout on Logical Unit" or one other generic one that I forget. I've also tried switching read speeds, but the same thing happens.

 

I searched the site for others in this situation, and the suggestion seems to be copy protection. Not sure if it matters, but the games are old CDs from 2005, so is that truly a possibility? If so, any way around it? And why would CDs 2 and 3 work fine?

 

Here's my log:

I 00:45:01 Operation Started!

I 00:45:01 Source Device: [0:0:0] TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-T633A D600 (D:) (SATA)

I 00:45:01 Source Media Type: CD-ROM

I 00:45:01 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 4x, 10x, 16x, 20x, 24x

I 00:45:01 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 63x

I 00:45:01 Source Media Sectors: 302,699

I 00:45:01 Source Media Size: 619,927,552 bytes

I 00:45:01 Source Media Volume Identifier: AoE III Disc 1

I 00:45:01 Source Media Application Identifier: Nero Burning ROM

I 00:45:01 Source Media File System(s): ISO9660, Joliet

I 00:45:01 Read Speed (Data/Audio): 1x / 1x

I 00:45:01 Destination File: C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\AoE III Disc 1.iso

I 00:45:01 Destination Free Space: 190,671,970,304 Bytes (186,203,096.00 KiB) (181,838.96 MiB) (177.58 GiB)

I 00:45:01 Destination File System: NTFS

I 00:45:02 File Splitting: Auto

I 00:45:06 Read Speed - Effective: 4x

I 00:45:06 Reading Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 302698)

I 00:45:06 Reading Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 302698)

W 00:48:31 Failed to Read Sectors 59456 - 59487 - Reason: Timeout on Logical Unit

W 00:48:38 Failed to Read Sector 59463 - Reason: Timeout on Logical Unit

W 00:48:38 Sector 59463 maps to File: \00002.tmp

W 00:48:38 Retrying (1 of 20)...

W 00:48:44 Retry Failed - Reason: Timeout on Logical Unit

W 00:48:44 Retrying (2 of 20)...

W 00:48:51 Retry Failed - Reason: Timeout on Logical Unit

W 00:48:51 Retrying (3 of 20)...

I 00:48:55 Abort Request Acknowledged

W 00:48:58 Retry Failed - Reason: Timeout on Logical Unit

E 00:48:58 Failed to Read Sector 59463 - Reason: Timeout on Logical Unit

E 00:48:58 Sector 59463 maps to File: \00002.tmp

E 00:48:58 Failed to Read Sectors!

I 00:49:03 Exporting Graph Data...

I 00:49:03 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\TSSTcorp_DVD+-RW_TS-T633A_D600_MONDAY-MAY-5-2014_12-45_AM_N-A.ibg

I 00:49:03 Export Successfully Completed!

E 00:49:03 Operation Aborted! - Duration: 00:03:56

E 00:49:03 Average Read Rate: 503 KiB/s (2.9x) - Maximum Read Rate: 618 KiB/s (3.6x)

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Yes, that'll be copy protection. They don't need to protect every disc, just the one required to actually play the game - it's cheaper.

 

I'm afraid we can't help you duplicate those discs... or any others that are copy protected.

[and299]

That sucks, I was hoping this wasn't the case. Thanks for the reply!