bradleybrand Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 I have some old discs and want to make ISO backups for convivence but some are protected to prevent this. Is there anyway around this? I have somewhat looked at the following: ImgBurn Daemon Tools IsoBuster Game example: Theme Park World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans_Henrik Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 Do you have Cygwin installed? if not, can you install it? https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe - also make sure to install "ddrescue" when it ask you what packages to install start a Cygwin terminal "as administrator" (that's important!), and when the protected cd is _not_ inserted (and has not been for at least 10 seconds), what output do you get from ls /dev then insert the CD and wait 5 seconds, then run ls /dev again, what do you get this time? it should look something like hans@DESKTOP-2LHJILI:~$ ls /dev clipboard conout dsp full null pty0 scd0 sda sda2 sda4 sr0 stderr stdout urandom zero conin console fd mqueue ptmx random scd1 sda1 sda3 shm sr1 stdin tty windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradleybrand Posted August 12, 2022 Author Share Posted August 12, 2022 Any other utilities or methods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans_Henrik Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 the CD Copy protection use unreadable sectors on the CD to prevent copying of the CDs. Normal CD copy programs will freeze or crash when they reach the unreadable sectors. GNU ddrescue will write null bytes on the unreadable sectors, and find the nearest readable byte, and continue copying from there. DDRescue should be able to copy copy-protected CDs (by replacing unreadable bytes with null bytes), try DDRescue. However, DDRescue is only for unix-like systems, like Linux or MacOS. If you're on MacOS, sure run DDRescue directly, but if you're on Microsoft Windows, you'll need Cygwin or WSL or Virtual Box to run ddrescue. Cygwin is the easiest way to run DDRescue on Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSC-04 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 I remember running into this problem, unfortunately I don't remember how I solved it, as it was years ago. I had to switch to CloneCD for some of my games, don't remember why, but maybe it's related to the protection problem? There's a free trial version available, you can easily back up everything you have before it expires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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