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how to recover from unplayable dvd??
I have a dvd with 2 movies on it. Someone slightly scratched it and it became unplayable. Im trying to recover the video and sound. I put toothpaste on it , later I tried turtle wax. Had it polished at a blockbuster. It still is unplayable. When I insert it into the drive d=, drive d light flashes continually but nothing ever comes up. I cannot read drive d when this disk is in it. Any suggestions.
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no, Ive tried it in 4 different dvd players.
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After reading all that you have done, it seems sadly
that you are not gonna get any result from that disc.
Its gone.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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I used to use a DVD Doctor to repair scratched DVDs. It was tedious but worked well.
Here’s some available on amazon.
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of course it is not completely gone. the dvd structure is most probably lost. but try to copy as much as you can on your hdd. if those are just scratches you should hopefuly recover most of the video which is located in VOBs. you can get some help from recovery applications but from my experiences it is just a waste of time. recevered data are damaged and unuseful anyway.
if your scratches are canyons… all i can say is – good luck… -
Sad thing is the scatches are very minor. One Im guessing must be where the starting info for the dvd file is. I was a comodore hack way back and i had a program that could open any floppy even if it was unreadable normally by the drive. Actually there was a header bit that if you changed just this one bit , it make the disk unworkable. Using this program I could fix that bit as well. I bought a dvd ripper but it wont work as the disk drive cant get by that starting part.
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try to use recovery applications. looks like you cannot acces the disc because the system files are damaged. recovery apps like isobuster can acces the data directly and have their own drivers to read the disc. use google to read more about recovering discs.
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