I am trying to use software called "DVD Data Rescue" version 1.2 to extract the files off of a bad DVD-R.
Had a couple questions for anyone that is familiar with it.
(1) Can this software harm my DVD drive in any way? I ask because it seems to be making the drive work megaovertime. That is, lesse, it is now MONDAY night, and I started it on FRIDAY night!!!!!! It took roughly 12 HOURS to get through it's initial phase of reading the disc and finding files, and since then has been going and going and going in its "processing files" phase. There are 9 files on the disc and thus far it has "processed" 6 of them. I think it is extracting files like one byte at a time at a speed slower than a snail but I wonder if that might screw up my drive turning the laser on and on like this??????
(2) In simple view of the files on the disc in windows file manager/explorer all of the files can be seen with their correct names in their correct directory path. Things like \VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB or \VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.BUP or \VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Yet in DVD Data Rescue, it only sees the files as "unnamed" and calls them "unnamed0000" through "unnamed0008". Assuming that the program is able to extract all the files to my hard drive (and does so before I die of old age), how am I supposed to know what file is what so I can put things back together again correctly in making my new DVD copy??? Is there some option in the program to do this, or does this happen later in the current process it is doing??? Or am I on my own in using my best in figuring out what is what, by comparing filesizes etc then renaming them - or perhaps does the order of the unnamed files correspond with the order of the actual files viewed in explorer???????
(3) Since I can copy most of the files off myself without errors directly in windows file manage (or with something like Ripit4me/dvddecrypter/whatever), perhaps a better approach to this might have been me doing that first then just using DVD Data Rescue to only extract the ONE file that I can't get rather than use it for all of them?????? The problem with the disc is that I can't get the last VOB file off of it, so maybe that is the only one I should be trying to get with Data Rescue and perhaps save a lot of time. I can see that the last file in Data Rescue's window (called unnamed0008) is the same one as the last VOB file on the disc, because of its size.
Does that make sense?
(4) Also this is wierd - recall that there are 9 files on the disc to copy, and that is what it found. Yet in Data Rescue's status window, it acts like there are twice as many (18). For instance, right now it is working on filename "unnamed0006", which means it has already processed 6 files (0000 - 0005). And it says it has processed 6 files, but instead of saying that there are 3 left to go, it says there are 12 left to go!!! What does that mean????? Perhaps it is counting the files both on the disc and the files that it is creating on my hard drive????
Also more info: My PC is a pentium 4, 1.7 ghz, 1gb ram, running winxp, and the dvd drive is a liteon LH-201AH.
