I'm trying to copy the VOB files from a family DVD-R to my Hard Drive but the 5th VOB file won't copy over due to a CRC error. The 6th and 7th files copy fine though. The disc is a DVD9 (Double layer 8GB disc) so I'm guessing that the 5th file is where the file moves from layer 1 to layer 2 of the disc. Anyway, I'm on the look for a program that will copy the VOB file to my Hard Drive passing the CRC error. I don't really care if the file will have a bit of skiping in it as that would be far better than missing a full 15 minute section of the disc. Yakumo
Try creating an .iso with ImgBurn/Alcohol/AnyDVD/IsoBuster. Then burn or watch the .iso in vlc/mpc/whatever or unpack it with WinRAR and do what you want with the vobs.
Thanks for the idea but I found a perfect solution for free. I downloaded CDChecker which found 54 errors on the file however it could recover the VOB file and copied it to my Hard Drive. I've just watched the file from start to finish with perfect results. A really good bit of software. You can download it from here - http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/cd-recovery.html Yakumo
Yeah, it's a really useful bit of software to have installed. I'm going to try a few more DVDs that have CRC errors. Fingers crossed it should recover them as well.
I had a similar problem, but harder to fix. One very important dvd had a lot of problems to read the Table of Contents (TOC). I used a software called IsoPuzzle It will read only the readable sectors and create a ISO file. Unreadable sectors will be blank inside the ISO file. The problem is: I still don't have the TOC. So all files are writen in the ISO, sequentialy, without any references to them. After that, I used a hex editor to find the documents and pictures (searching for file headers) and extracted them. Using this method I managed to recover about 80% of the disc. And best of all, IsoPuzzle is free!
Good suggestions in this thread. Another method is to simply try the disc in as many DVD drives as you have access to, the success rate can vary a lot. Sometimes even a cheap player will have better luck reading a bad disc than a name brand DVD drive.
