Topic says it all. I backed up my game(gta vc disc2) w/ blindwrite but i cannot find the bwa/t/s. Is it possilbe to get the files from the bwi w/o the other files?

original disc is in my brother's apartment, not local... 200mi away so thats not an option

Could try mounting the bwi on daemon tools then re-reading the image with blindwrite from the virtual drive and burning the new image.

k ill try that tonite, ill post updates later

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update: nope garbage in garbage out.. daemon tools mounted it and when i accessed it through my comp... it didnt say anything next to it, none used/free and the title was CD-Drive or something(but the icon was there so i know it was mounted)..
so i continued anyways and i read and burned with bw. and nope didnt work.

btw. this might help me if someone explained what things were contained in the bwa/s/t files, i remember the bwa file being 30meg+

The BWI file contains only the main data in RAW mode (2352 bytes/sector), it's the same as a BIN file or a IMG file (clonecd's format), except that it may also contain the pregap (sectors -150 to 0). If it does, it cannot be mounted on it's own. (the virtual drive thinks it begins at sector #1)

The other files are:
BWT : TOC file, in BW4's format.
BWS : subchannels
BWA (optional) : topology

But GTAVC being protected with securom 4.8x, you need all those files to get a working backup. (only CD2 is protected though)

thanks for your help so far...

okay, how can i grab some files off the cd(if possible, i believe the .adf files are on cd2[really cool radop stations] so i can convert them to wave so i can listen [only reason to play gtavc is the music hehe])

Try cutting the first 352800 (=2352*150) bytes of the BWI file with an hex editor, and see if the bwi file can be mounted after that.

hey, thanks for the reply... but can you please give me some instructions on how to cut the first bytes of the BWI file(or link to insturctions/recommended hex editor)

thanks

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okay i have downloaded hex workshop but i cannot specify the amount of bytes i want to delete. the onlything i see is inserting a specific amt of bytes.

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There should fo a function "delete to cursor" or similar... Just jo to offset 352799 or 0x5621F , where there should be 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 02 00 01 , then delete everything before.

hye. thanks for the reply and instructions. okay i found the goto button and i went to offset 00x5621 (hex).. okay then i held down select and pressed home and deleted it.(i did not see a 00 ff ff.... (mine are grouped in 4's but all i saw were 00's)

okay trying to mount now. k i get the same thing. "CD Drive" hummm........

It's offset 0x5621F