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Author: skyjedi2005
Time: 19-Nov-2010 12:51 AM
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Jetrell Fo said:

That bullpaq media doesn't sound very reliable really...or do they just not hold up to age?

The reliability is probably close to zero if not more than 10%.

Russ had something like 500 discs he said and they are all now drink coasters. That pretty much makes the bundle of about 15 discs he sent me all rotters.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

Author: none
Time: 19-Nov-2010 7:55 AM
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If you can check out the affected discs in a different / newer device. I had a bunch which I thought were lost, then when I got a new machine, they played and was able to move them to a HD.

Author: Darth Mallwalker
Time: 19-Nov-2010 11:39 AM (Edited)
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The narrow-guage laser of a BD-ROM drive is your friend here.
Might get lucky and read the entire disc without errors (but could you trust the results?)

A better option might be finding two bad copies of the same title.
Might get lucky and the bad sectors from each copy might not overlap.
That is, assemble a good copy from more than one source.

Don't ditch the rotters!

This reminds me of something Russs mentioned to me recently.
Russs probably thinks I'm an asss for never acknowledging the PM he sent last month, but honestly I never could decide how I wanted to respond.
Reluctant to accept the nomination to become 'data recovery guy' . . . yet somehow unable to say no. A peculiar form of 'preservation' but somehow tempting.
How about it Russs? Got a bad copy of DJ_SWE_Ep6 ?

skyjedi2005, got a copy of DJ_SWE_Ep6 ? I'll trade you DJ_SEW_Ep4_ISR for it.

I got the skillz to try it but there's just one problem -- I ain't got no BD-ROM.
Might get lucky trying several different CD burners...

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
-Moth3r

Author: dark_jedi
Time: 19-Nov-2010 1:23 PM
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If it wasn't for my BD drive I would not have salvaged all the '97 SE broadcast DVD's I have, but I have since backed them all up again on Tayo media and on an external.

Author: russs15
Time: 19-Nov-2010 2:27 PM
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How bad am I?? I have forgotten so much that I had to Google my own webpage on the DJ releases just to work out what you guys are talking about!!

I have however come good as I ISO'd most of DJ's stuff years ago and DJ_SWE_Ep6 is one of those I did. Plus, I have them on media as sent by DJ and they are not on the wonderful BulkPaq discs that I inflicted the world with. You can have a copy if you wish.

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