How to Copy a DVD with Bad Sectors Using Any DVD Clone?

 

Many new commercial DVD movies, such as Wall-E and Dark Knight, have many bad sectors due to the annoying copy-protection. You cannot backup or copy these DVDs unless you have a way to bypass the bad sectors. From a number of forums, we find that DVD users have no luck to backup their favorite DVDs with bad sectors while using DVD Decrypter, Isobuster, VOB Blanker, Fairmount, handbrake, MTR, Debian as well. Therefore, we would like to show you the eaiest way to skip bad sectors on a DVD using Any DVD Clone!

In Any DVD Clone, two copy methods, Normal and Enhanced, are available to choose. First of all, we need to know in what circumstance these two options are used:

Normal Copy Method: unprotected DVDs; homemade DVDs; some commercial DVDs.

Enhanced Copy Method: protected DVDs; DVDs that have bad sectors; particular DVDs require much more burning time.

Obviously, we need to use Enhanced copy method to copy DVDs which have bad sectors. Now, simple follow steps below to backup DVD with bad sectors.

Step 1. Install and launch Any DVD Clone; click Settings->Option; choose "Enhanced" copy method; increase the "Track Nums" to "6" or bigger if the DVD has many bad sectors.

 

Step 2. Insert DVD into your DVD ROM drive, click Open DVD button, then Any DVD Clone will automatically browse for the bad sectors, and list all the contents of the DVD movie in the main window. Moreover, Any DVD Clone will show you whether the DVD movie is NTSC or PAL.

 

Step 3. Choose DVD Folder from the Output Device option.

 

Step 4. Click button to start copying the DVD with bad sectors.

 

Step 5: Browse a folder for the output DVD movie, and Any DVD Clone will then start the copying process. Wait for a while, then this DVD with bad sectors will be copied to your computer hard drive.

 

Furthermore, you can also detect the bad sector from the dvdcloner.log after finish copying the DVD. The dvdcloner.log is usually located at this directory:

XP: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator(UserName)\My Documents\Any DVD Clone

Vista: C:\Users\(your username)\Documents\Any DVD Clone\dvdcloner.log

Open the log with Notepad or other text editor, then you can review your entire copying process:

2009-08-20 07:33 >> dvdcloner version: Any DVD Clone 1.1.7

2009-08-20 09:06 >> ==================== start log ====================
title: 0 title len: 0.22, cell: 1
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 1
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 2
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 3
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 7
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 8
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 9
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 10
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 11
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 12
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 13
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 14
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 15
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 16
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 17
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 18
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 19
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 20

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From the above log file info, you can find that the following lines are missing:

title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 4
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 5
title: 1 title len: 1865.80, cell: 6

Any DVD Clone has automatically bypassed cell 4, 5 and 6 which are the bad sectors on the DVD. If there are no bad sectors in title 1, the cell will be in consecutive numbers.