[dbhankins]

Sometimes you get that when there's bad data on the disk. Suggest you make an ISO of the disk and play from that. Make sure that in your image-making program you set it to [highlight]not[/highlight] skip/ignore errors, and that it retries as many times as possible.

You might also want to limit the read speed to something like 4x.


Dan

 

[dbhankins]

The disk can look fine on the bottom and still have problems. Label-side scratches can actually cause worse problems than bottom-side ones, as a label-side scratch almost always takes off some of the reflective layer and the data layer, leaving the disk unrecoverable.

Also, various forms of disk rot can cause an okay-looking disk to become unusable. Layer separation, data layer oxidation, reflective layer oxidation, and warping can all make a disk marginal or unreadable.

The only way to be sure is to either run the disk through a quality checking utility like the one in KProbe2 or Nero CD-DVD Speed, or try to make an ISO with error-checking left on.


Dan