Bad sector in ISO i made. Will it still work?

slimjim · Aug 23, 2002

I was making ISO's of my FF7 cds last night and on CD3 it came it with a sector unreadable message. Using ISOBUSTER i told it to fill the sector with 0's. It happily continued and created the iso.
Will this iso work or do you think I'll need a replacement cd3?
If I need a cd3 i will just buy the game again today if i can find it.

Kellicros · Aug 23, 2002

It will work, but it might crash when ePSXe is trying to read the bad sector. The best thing to do is to get a replacement, I think.

grahf · Aug 23, 2002

Bad sectors are like scratches. The CD will work fine until it comes to the bad sector, at which point it may either skip that sector or just freeze entirely. Just hope that the bad sector is not at the beginning of the iso. Usually if it's at the end, then only the music tracks are affected because most FMV/Music data are stored at the outer tracks.

Gamer1 · Aug 23, 2002

you should have ommited the sector instead of replacing it zeros. isos works better. sometimes, if i do replace w/ all zeros, the iso cannot be read properly.

slimjim · Aug 23, 2002

I examined the cd when this came up the first time to check for scratches but the cd seems in perfect condition. The problem came at 70% of the cd being read. I'm guessing this wont be at the start.
So i have my fingers crossed it will still work

Just seen above post. I will redo the iso and omit the sector this time.

F-3582 · Aug 23, 2002

Some CDs come with built-in bad sectors. Don't worry, it will work.

BTW: Bad sectors are used, because some burning programs used to crash when reading them.

Decoy_Octopus · Aug 23, 2002

The exact same thing happened to me! Use Clone CD, and although it will take a really long time and have many, many unreadable sectors, the iso will still work.

Guest · Aug 23, 2002

Just depends, I've had games with 6 bad sectors work. It depends what data is corrupt. Sometimes the data that gets corrupted isn't used by the emulator and your fine. you can try it. But it could possibly crash.

F-3582 · Aug 23, 2002

If you enable "fast error skip" CloneCD will take just parts of a second to read an error (Depending on your CD drive)

slimjim · Aug 23, 2002

i can never get a clonecd image to work. Isobuster i have no problems with but clonecd images just never load in ePSXe for me. Is there some sort of special settings for psx games to iso's?
Also incase the cd is broke i purchased FF7 on ebay this afternoon. I thnk just under £7 for the game is a good price

Quick Update: I tried clonecd again and the iso of cd3 boots up ok this time, though the iso using isobuster also boots. heres hoping they work ok

Novice_Gamer · Aug 23, 2002

same dig happend to me when i was doing my Dragon ball gt game...it works just fine except during certain Movies den it frezes really bad! I recomend you ge a scrath gaurd 4 ur games and also a scrath remover dinging

Gamer1 · Aug 23, 2002

Originally posted by ChrisRay
Just depends, I've had games with 6 bad sectors work. It depends what data is corrupt. Sometimes the data that gets corrupted isn't used by the emulator and your fine. you can try it. But it could possibly crash.

its the copy protection put into psx disks called libcrypt.

Bad sector in ISO i made. Will it still work?

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