CDRWin is a great program. If you want to copy exactly, it can do it
wonderfully. Just be sure you set read options to Raw, error recovery to
ignore(this way if the CD-R perceives an error, it copies the error without
trying to correct it; it may not actually be an error, just something
perceived as such), and you can disable jitter correction (jitter correction
is just an algorithm that eliminates the "click" sound you might hear at the
end of an audio track on an audio cd. Also, set Read Retry Count to about 50
or more (this way if there is a scratch on the cd, it will continually try to
read it until it gets it and won't just give you an "unreadable sector"
error; if it takes more than 50 times, it isn't going to get the info
anyway).
If you follow this, there should never be an error capturing the image. This
is why error recovery is set to off. Even "bad blocks" or ,yes ,even copy
protection sectors, should not appear as an error. If there is an error
doing it this way, it is a physical read error, and you just need to try and
reextract the image. If you make an error free image, you should have no
problem making an error free back up.
Hope this helps a little,
Neal Collins
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