================== ISO PUZZLE 1.

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========== ! Please do not use older versions ! ========

Data recovery utility for damaged / scratched DVDs and data CDs

This version of ISO PUZZLE is supplied "as is" free of charge for personal
non-profit use only.

If you would like to make a donation please make it payable to my email

address via "PayPal"!

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN READING TO THE END AND ACCEPT THE TERMS OF USE!

! YOU ARE USING THIS PROGRAM ON YOUR OWN RISK !

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By using this program you accept that no warranty of any kind can be given.
Neither functionality nor data integrity can be guaranteed.
The author cannot guarantee that this program is free of viruses, trojans,
spyware or any other harmful software.
The author cannot held responsible for malfunctions, data loss of any kind,
corruption of any other software installed on your computer, permanent
hardware damage or profit loss.

! THIS PROGRAM IS NOT INTENDED TO CIRCUMVENT ANY COPY PROTECTION !

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Although in some countries it is legal to make backup copies of legally
purchased material like software or movies, only the user is responsible for
obeying the applicable laws.
The author cannot be held responsible for any copyright infringement.
This program has no decryption mechanism and has not been tested for running
in parallel with software players or programs bypassing region code protection
and/or decryption on the driver level.

! USE AND DISTRIBUTION !

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You are permitted to share and copy this program together with this ReadMe in
unmodified form with other persons or to host it on your servers as long as no
fee is charged. Making any modifications or reverse engineering is prohibited.
Deriving any profit in any form from the use of this program is also prohibited.

!!! IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS TERMS OF USE OR IF YOU CANNOT

AGREE TO THEM YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE THIS PROGRAM !!!
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Short Description:
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The goal of this program is to recover as much data as possible from damaged,
poorly burned or scratched CDs or DVDs.

This version supports only data CDs and DVDs with a sector size of 2048 byte.
Audio CD, VCD and SVCD are not supported.

You need a working ASPI Layer on your system!

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This program has been tested with the newest version of WNASPI32.DLL of
NERO AG (Version 2.0.1.74).

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 Please visit the homepage of NERO AG to get the DLL and read the terms
of use!
http://www.nero.com/nero6/eng/WNASPI32.DLL.html

Please put the WNASPI32.dll in the same folder as IsoPuzzle.exe - do not

copy it into your system folders. Please note, that the behaviour of this
program may depend on this dll.

How it works:
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All readable data is stored in an "ISO" image file which can be read by
various software such as "Daemon Tools", "WinRar" (needs iso-plugin)
and most burner software like "Nero" etc.
Please note, that image files greater 4GB need to reside on a NTFS disk!

Every succsessfully read sector is stored in the image file (*.ISO) and will
be marked "good" in the corresponding "flag" file (*.FLG).
If a read error is encountered a dummy sector will be written which will
remain marked "bad". In this case a random number of sectors are
skipped for faster progress.
Reaching the end of the disk a retry loop will be entered until all sectors
have been read or a selectable "Give Up Time" has been reached.

After selecting the "Source" drive and the "Destination" folder the copy
process can be started by pressing "Start".
The filenames are suggested automatically from the DVDs volume label
if available.

The copy process can be interrupted at any time by pressing the "Pause"
button and can be continued by pressing "Start" again.
This way you can try to complete your image file even on different machines
with different CD drives - often one drive can read some sectors which are
unreadable for an other one.

For using different drives you can share the image file *.ISO (along with
the flag file *.FLG) on a network drive or put it on a portable disk (USB).

Import function:
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To avoid dealing with very large files you can use the "Import" function:
Assuming that you started on machine "A" and no more data is recoverable -
.) Copy ONLY (!) the *.FLG file (e.g. via USB stick) to machine "B".
.) On "B" select "Destination" folder, where the *.FLG file is located.
.) "Start" will create an "import file" *.IMP in the same folder.
All readable sectors are now stored here.
.) After completion on "B" transfer the *.IMP to a location where it is
accessible from machine "A".
.) On "A" it can be merged into the existing *.ISO image with "Import File"

Force Disksize - WARNING - Use with care!

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.) Some DVD drives report slightly different size of the same DVD/CD.
For ripping to an existing *.Iso/*Flg pair (or *.Imp/*.Flg) you can set
the disk size to "Flagfile reported".
(You can try "Estimated" to figure out which drive is wrong ...)
.) In some cases "empty disk" is reported although the disk is readable.
Setting the size to "Estimated" would be the choice here.

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 This function may be slow and unreliable.

Be careful and be sure you know what you are doing when using this function!!!
By changing the (drive reported) disk size you might accidentially destroy
an existing image file - make sure the given filenames are correct!

Cylce Tray
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It your responsibility NOT to change the disk while the tray is open!

Allow Cooldown
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Pause times are extended up to half an hour for cooling down the drive in case
of long failure time. The tray will open if "Cycle Tray" is enabled.
Pauses can be aborted immediately by unchecking "Allow Cooldown".

History:
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1.7 Extended single sector reading, Delete flag & import file on success
Import function reviewed, Pause time decisions improved
Lot of Bugfixes (probably last sector missing due to aspi(?),
crash on more than 8 drives, unmountable disk prevents give up,
possibly corruped flagfile on ripping attempt to locked image)
1.6 Bugfix (possible disk mounting problems after cycling tray)
Try single sector reading when failure time exceeds
1.5 Force disksize is now possible regardless if sector 0 is unreadable,
Extended pause time for drive cooling, Save some settings on exit,
Bugfix (last sector missing)
1.4 Added options: Cycle tray on multiple errors, Select iso-filename,
Force disksize (solves "different sectornumber" and "empty disk")
1.3 Progressbar & other cosmetics
1.2 Crash on missing host-adapter-0 fixed
1.1 A few bugs corrected
1.0 First release

Many thanks:
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Many thanks to Barney Ghiglieri for correcting this readme.

Credits:
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If you would like to make a donation please make it payable to my email
address via "PayPal"!

mailto:Marsoupilamis@Yahoo.Gr
http://www.geocities.com/marsoupilamis/

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