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kamaswami42
22nd August 2009, 22:36
I am having trouble reading a DVD. The disc when put into my drives will try to load but never loads. The light on the drive will flashing for a while but it never recognizes the disc.

The disc is Disc 6 of the Studio Ghibli Movie Collection, containing Nausicaa and Pom Poko. It is DVD-9, unencrypted. I just want to make a backup copy.

Here are the drives I've tried this on:

Sony Playstation 2: sometimes will load but often says there's an error with the disc. When it does load, I can watch the movie.
SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T: disc spins and tries to load but never loads. Firmware:F311
_NEC DVD_RW ND-3520AW:: same as on Samsung. Firmware:3.04



Ripping software: DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0
OS: Windows XP SP3 w/ all updates. The same problems are also in Linux.


Looking at the surface of the disc, there are no visible blemishes, scratches, etc. It is disc 6 out of 6 and the other 5 discs ripped with no difficulty (they aren't even encrypted).

Anyone have suggestions about how to proceed? Am I just out of luck for making a backup? Is there some way to do low level stuff that forces the drive to read even though it thinks nothing is there?

I'm not sure if this is against the rules or not but if anyone else happens to own this Ghibli Movie Collection, I'd be interested to know if you are able to backup disc 6 or not.

thx.

Guest
22nd August 2009, 22:56
Return it to the store you bought it from and ask for a replacement.

setarip_old
22nd August 2009, 23:49
@kamaswami42

Hi!Looking at the surface of the disc, there are no visible blemishes, scratches, etc.Despite what you've said, have you tried cleaning the disc?

manono
23rd August 2009, 08:11
Is there any reason we should care that your bootleg DVD can't be read or decrypted to the hard drive? This is a rule 6 violation but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt over whether or not you know it's a boot.

http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm
http://forum.doom9.org/announcement.php?f=6

http://home.arcor.de/otnemem/ghibli/bootleg.htm
http://home.arcor.de/otnemem/ghibli/boot5.html

If you think I'm wrong or being unfair, PM me. Thread closed.