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Originally posted by daves_22
His remarks were not necessary as all I asked was for information from anyone having trouble with a cdrw brand that isnt tested on elby site, and isnt mentioned in most of the previous posts that I read so far.
The info I was asking for was specific, and reading the response that I got, I didnt see any attempt by him to answer one of the questions asked.
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I just looked at your first post again, and my objections still remain : with the information you gave in that post, krondike gave a reasonable answer. You cannot expect any of us to remember all YOUR posts and add the info in them ourselves to your current thread, that's your job I'm afraid. So in future, try to give all info necessary in the thread or just give a link to your previous threads, YOU know everything you wrote, but WE have to read dozens of posts each day and I know that I can't remember what was said by whom. If you really spent six continues hours on this, you have my sympathy. But please, try hold down on the sarcasm next time, we're all, after all, here to help.
And to prove my last point, here's a piece of advice : make a clonecd image on hard disk of your troublesome game and use
CDMage to open it and scan for corruption. As Cirkutz mentioned, you should get a lot of errors in the first 800-10000 sectors. When it has done checking for corruption, select all errors (press ctrl-a in the error window), right click and then select "Locate content of sectors", this will check to which file each sector belongs. You'll notice that the 800-10000 error sectors stay "unknown", meaning that they don't belong to any file, which in turn means that they're safedisc 2 copy protection sectors. If you have errors in files, your cd image is bad and has to be redone. If this keeps on happening, your original is bad and krondike's suggestion number one was after all true; now you see why he suggested this ? You can try to correct that by reading again, but this time change the reading speed in the profile you use ("game cd", "data cd"...) to 1x, this will make CloneCD read in at the lowest speed possile for that drive (my writer can go to 4x speed instead of 40x speed, this usually fixes errors). Only when CDMage does NOT report errors outside the ones for the safedisc 2 protection, have you made a good image that can be written away again.