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Pio2001 · 31-12-2002

I was in holydays in my uncle's home, and he needed a backup of a doc.loc protected CD (Lagoa vol 11). None of his drives recognized the CD (there was an Asus burner between 32 and 46x, I don't remember the other CD ROM).
Even EAC wouldn't read it, it was stuck in an endless loop, loading and loading the TOC.

1st trick (nothing new)
CloneCD, inserting the CD after the program is started, successfully extracted the image.

But the copy burned from this image was unusable ! The resulting audio CD was not recognized neither in the computer, nor in hifi players.

2nd trick :
I had to rename the image.img file to image.raw, open it in goldwave, save it to wav.
Then, the cuesheet was not recognized, so I had to update the filename, change the "BINARY" statement to "WAVE", and, the less obvious part, add a new line for track one :
INDEX 00 00:00:00
that was missing (index 1 was at 00:10:00).

At last Nero could burn it properly.

31-12-2002	#42 (permalink)
Pio2001 CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 364	My experience with a nasty Doc.loc CD I was in holydays in my uncle's home, and he needed a backup of a doc.loc protected CD (Lagoa vol 11). None of his drives recognized the CD (there was an Asus burner between 32 and 46x, I don't remember the other CD ROM). Even EAC wouldn't read it, it was stuck in an endless loop, loading and loading the TOC. 1st trick (nothing new) CloneCD, inserting the CD after the program is started, successfully extracted the image. But the copy burned from this image was unusable ! The resulting audio CD was not recognized neither in the computer, nor in hifi players. 2nd trick : I had to rename the image.img file to image.raw, open it in goldwave, save it to wav. Then, the cuesheet was not recognized, so I had to update the filename, change the "BINARY" statement to "WAVE", and, the less obvious part, add a new line for track one : INDEX 00 00:00:00 that was missing (index 1 was at 00:10:00). At last Nero could burn it properly. __________________ No, I don't want to install Flash Player 6 !!