Bad Sectors

[IceBreaker]

I do not believe that Discdump [...] can do a better job than Alcohol!

O but it does, comrade, and quite well too.

This little FREEWARE jewel knocks 'em others out stone cold when it comes to reading software-protected CDs, and especially ones with tons of bad sectors, I've had countless confirmations of this on different sites & forums, including CDfreaks amongst others. And it's compact since it holds in only 1 file (or 2 if you add the GUI interface .exe) !

But as I said, Discdump is not designed to handle hardware-based schemes such as Securom 4.8+ or Starforce. Against these, there's only Alcohol or - even better - Blindwrite

Besides Discdump is only a READING program. It is often coupled with the (non-freeware but equally compact) 'Fireburner'. However this one is not that essential, nor unique, as any writing software that handles ISO images AND can do RAW-DAO96 is equivalent to Fireburner. It's just that 'Discdump+Fireburner' , well...it just sounds "nice", that's all


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