Dealing with bad DVD+R media ?

[13Gigatons]

So I bought some Memorex DVD+R media awhile back and it is very bad stuff. Almost every burn has validation errors.

I burned Windows XP x64 Eval iso file and it was bad so I winrar it into 15 meg pieces and then burned them but when I tested it on the disc it had crc failures in 15 of the rars. The files can be copied but they won't extract the iso file.

Anybody have a fool proof method for creating and recovering important data from DVD media ?

 

[LeiZaK]

Nuke it in the microwave on top of a cup for 7 seconds.

 

[salt9876]

It cannot be done. (

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: salt9876
It cannot be done. (

I was thinking of creating a iso file first and then using par2 creating parity files and then burning the iso.

par2 works even if some of the blocks are missing.

This seems time consuming though, anybody have a better solution ?

 

[13Gigatons]

Ok so maybe I will skip the whole .iso idea since that would take to long.

 

[Nocturnal]

Buy Taiyo Yuden ONLY.

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Buy Taiyo Yuden ONLY.

They can go bad as well.

 

[13Gigatons]

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://genpar2.free.fr/

I found this little app which goes through the subdirectories and creates sets of par files for every folder filled with files. It then has some options of where to put the files.