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Advice on CD-Rom drive to read old CD-Rs

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Reply 20 of 24, by leileilol

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Dominus wrote on 2023-11-30, 15:24:

Among that are some CD-Rs that my drive couldn't read, for example this Beta version of the never released Crusader: No Remorse for Playstation.

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Reply 22 of 24, by Dominus

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Tiido wrote on 2023-11-30, 10:31:

The burner I mentioned is LG GCE-8526B (version 1.03). It has definitely served me well over the years ~

That one arrived first and finally was able to read the TOC and all except two files (audio). Not bad for a start.

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Reply 24 of 24, by Dominus

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hmm, actually I was able to get them somehow. I'm on macOS and on the lockstock Disk Utility app it shows the drive in two ways. I wasn't able to generate an iso from the disk volume but somehow from the Media volume and from that image I was able to extract the audio files, which in turn were exactly the same as the final release versions 😀
Trying now to read a proper image via Alcohol 120% from a Windows VM (as the one the apple tool read is somehow still problematic)

Edit: and yes, success. Image read in fine!

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