DVD Disc Repair P.3

Well hopefully somewhere along this long and tortured path you found how to effect a DVD disc repair or at least a partial DVD recovery. If not hit the "contact" button and I will try to help you in any way I can.

Any data files should have been saved in their original format so should be easily recognizable.

Now you will have the extracted files where you selected them to go. In the case of a video DVD the ones with the extension .VOB are the MPEG files from your disc wrapped in the VOB container. They can be imported into a video editing program using the "Import DVD/VR" function or can be read by most DVD burning software.

Select that, then go to "File," "Files found via their signature" then "Extract files found via their signature." Choose where you want to save the files and let it run.

After that has run you will have an entry on the left hand column of "files and folders found by their signature."

Go to "file" and select "Find Missing Files and Folders."

With the DVD loaded start Isobuster and allow it to detect the DVD and its contents.

For a video DVD it is very likely that we have already lost things like the menus, special features etc. So do not expect miracles.

At this point The point of effecting a DVD disc repair has past and the best we can hope for now is the extraction of the individual video or data files from the disc.

If still no luck with the DVD disc repair so far then you need to be aware that we are not trying to save the DVD video intact anymore. For data DVD it doesn't matter.

There is always the possibility that Isobuster has just made a perfect copy of your faulty disc! So now you have a brand new faulty disc!

If Isobuster has created the file (note where it was going to put it first!) you will have to re-name the file extension to .iso. Use the disc image (.iso) file to burn a new DVD disc using Nero or whatever your DVD burning software is. At this point you will now have a new disc but you need to check it carefully.

Isobuster will give you the choice of which method you want to use. Just select them in order to try each until one works. Isobuster will not create a disc image file unless it knows it will be successful.

Isobuster has three alternate methods of dealing with data corruption:

1. It can replace the corrupted area with nothing.

2. It can replace the corrupted area with fake data.

3. It can replace the corrupted area with a series of zeros.

This is my final shot: Isobuster. Download and install the program. Insert the disc and let Isobuster detect the damaged DVD.

Once Isobuster has detected the contents of the DVD, if you "right click" on the main folder of the DVD, Isobuster will suggest what it "thinks" it can do.

Try to use Isobuster first to make a disc image file of the original. Using that you can then burn it to another new DVD.

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