Repairing Cd Images

[Zardoz]

I was having major trouble with the images for Unreal tournament always being corrupted
then I read a post by "VR4 Los" who recommended getting

CDMage from http://cdmage.cjb.net/

I used it to scan CD 1 and it fixed the only error
BUT CD2 had 2435 errors which CDMage could not fix
so what I did next was to download the image again "hopefully you have broadband"
this time it only had 794 errors which CDMage could not fix
But there is a realy cool feature which allows you to import sectors from another image
so sweep all damaged sectors hit import and got them from the first image I downloaded
I scanned the result and what do you know no errors
If you are unlucky enough to have errors in common in the two images try downloading again and repeat
as I said this tip aint much help if you got a slow connection
but if you got broadband then try it out
I now have UT2003 burned and working perfectly

If you have trouble burning ut2003 or anything else for that matter
then as has been stated by many posts you can just use WinISO to extract
the files from UT2003 CD1 and CD2 into one folder and install from there
I don't know if the WinISO trick will work with all multi CD software but it's worth a try
Obviously most single disk software should work

WinISO from http://www.winiso.com/

[lynx]

That sounds like a useful tip.

Question is of course, how come you ended up with such a bad download in the first place ?

The whole point about tcp protocol is that it is a 'reliable' connection, in other words what you receive is guaranteed to be what was sent, and the order you receive them in is the order they were sent.

So either your end is not recording the data correctly, or the sender is sending crap, but both of these point to a possible bug in kazaa.

The alternative is a deliberate attempt to spoil your download. Of course, it is possible to generate faults in a file in such a way that the uuhash matches that of an uncorrupted file, but because of the 'multiple sources' download method it is probable that the uuhash of the resulting download will not match. Maybe that will help to stop the spread of this corruption.

[Guest]

I haven't had any problens like this before if a file doesn,t work like say battle realms 147,500Kb then its the same fault each time I download. therefore I assume everone's copy doesn't work.(found working copy by the way)
Your suggestion the someone is sending crap rings true when you consider that the corrupt sectors were in different places on the two downloads, I would have been unlucky to get the same file from a single user twice considering there are at least twenty users on the supernode I was using with UT2003 CD2 thats why my tip to download more than once and import good sectors from one to the other.

This doesn't rule out the possibility of a bug but it is a real possibility.

[Zardoz]

Re above:Sorry didn't check if I was logged in.

And the grammar

[lynx]

I was think along the lines that it is a deliberately damaged source, to prevent installation of the software - far more effective than fakes if you haven't got something like cdmage.

[Zardoz]

Absokutely
it'll put off a lot of people especially if they got a slow connection
some users would have waited a couple of weeks to get all CD's down

good tactics if you want that
wait for a version to circulate and then download it fill it with errors and then
share. it not only discourages downloading but also damages the reputation of the
team who cracked the original

[the flinger]

i cant find that old topic about the cd1 being busted, so im posting here.

i have working disks 123 but 3 is still dling from ecrappy but so far 1 + 2 have installed fine under daemon tools (kick ass) so ill let you know and post in veriifed when done

[imported_simoncht]

Hi,

i have a question for you guys:

wich is the difference between repair and repair and rebuild corrupted sectors?

Does the game still work aftre rubuilding some corrupted sectors?

Let me know,

Thanks,

Simone