securdisk

brian · 11-26-2007, 09:04 AM

hey, for black friday i got a lg dvd burner to use externaly, it has this securdisc feature and i have looked online. Says that is a) tells you if your dvd is going bad and B) can revive info from damaged dvd's

hows does it a) tell the dvd is bad and B) can read even if the dvd is badly dammaged?

PohTayToez · 11-26-2007, 03:42 PM

Just a guess, but I would say that it's eye can detect if there are deep scratches on a disk, and that's how it knows if it is bad. As for recovering data, maybe it goes in and copies files one by one in order to revive them, rather than read the disk as a whole and determine the entire thing bad.

telephototech · 11-26-2007, 10:49 PM

I was just on a review site for an LG drive and read that securdisk uses the excess space available on the disk to write the data again. Basically from what i got out of the review is that the data is written twice on the disk. This kinda sucks for me when i want to do daily archiving and I depend on that extra space on the disk for adding files to.

Kabu · 11-26-2007, 11:51 PM

There are a few programs out there that can take a damaged disk and make a clean copy of it. AVS DVD Copy is one.

ukulele_ninja · 11-26-2007, 11:52 PM

You could turn it off couldnt you?

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11-26-2007, 10:49 PM	#3 (permalink)
telephototech New Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1	I was just on a review site for an LG drive and read that securdisk uses the excess space available on the disk to write the data again. Basically from what i got out of the review is that the data is written twice on the disk. This kinda sucks for me when i want to do daily archiving and I depend on that extra space on the disk for adding files to.

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Kabu banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Earth Posts: 457	There are a few programs out there that can take a damaged disk and make a clean copy of it. AVS DVD Copy is one.