1 Topic by puppydee (edited by puppydee 2010-04-25 23:16:33)

  • Registered: 2010-03-07
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Hi guys, just wondered if when dumping a disc, does it read from the outside in or the inside out or neither? Just so i can work out on the disc where the problem scratch is so i can remove it. Thanks in advance smile


Edit:  Thanks guys that's very helpful smile

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Normally from the inside out. When locating scratches you'll have to consider that the amount of data per rotation gets bigger and bigger towards the outer edge of the disc. Therefore, assuming the read error occurs at 50% of the extraction, the scratch isn't exactly at the middle of the disc but quite a bit nearer to the outer edge.

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depends on the disc size of course

you should either go by the size in sectors etc. not percentage

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Wah, of course. With all that Xbox360 dumping it didn't even occur to me anymore that there are discs that aren't a hundred percent full lol Thanks, iR0b0t!