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Hi all,

i recently transferred all my backup ISOs to an external hard drive and i recently found out that they all have errors. I've tested ISOs that were ripped to my internal and there were no issues at all, but when i transfer to the external and check with ABGX again, sure enough the video partition becomes corrupt. i have downloaded and extracted all of the ABGX video wave files as well. any help would be appreciated.

here's one of my ABGX logs (they all look similar):

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\\//\\//\\//\\//\\/█\\//\ \ \/ /┌─┐┌─┐┌─┐\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\
//\\//\\//\\//\█▀█\█▀█\█▀█/ /\ \ ─┤├─┐│ │//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//
───────────────▀▀▀─▀▀▀─▀▀█──────└─┘└─┘└─┘─v1.0.5───────[http://abgx360.net]────
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Checking for updates to abgx360.dat...
Server file abgx360.dat no newer than local file - not retrieving

I:\Dead_Space_NTSC.dvd needs to be created
I:\Dead_Space_NTSC.dvd was created

Checking Game
ISO: "I:\Dead_Space_NTSC.iso"
Size: 7835492352 bytes
Files in ISO: 4, Folders in ISO: 1
Total bytes used: 6840862836 (93.73%)
Game appears to have random padding

Checking default.xex
Original PE Filename: deadspace_f.exe
Original PE Timestamp: 2008/08/29 21:32:58
Game Name: Dead Space(TM)
Developer: Electronic Arts(TM)
Publisher: Electronic Arts(TM)
Genre: Action
No Avatar Awards
Achievements: 48 Achievements totaling 1000 Gamerscore
XEX CRC = 62175C32
XEX Media ID: C399E11AEC9827044D648BCA-6BF1DC46

Region Code: 0x0000FDFF
NTSC/J (Excludes China)
NTSC/U

Checking SS
Timestamp of Authoring: 2008/09/08 00:00:00
Timestamp of Mastering: 2009/09/19 04:47:43
SS Version: 2 (trusted)
SS CRC = 597D2C12 (RawSS = 18833B3E)
SS Media ID: C399E11AEC9827044D648BCA-6BF1DC46 (matches game)
SS looks valid

Checking DMI
Timestamp of Authoring: 2008/09/08 00:00:00 (matches SS)
DMI CRC = 0886442B
DMI Media ID: C399E11AEC9827044D648BCA-6BF1DC46 (matches game)
DMI looks valid

Checking PFI
PFI CRC = A4CFB59C
PFI matches known data (2nd Wave)

Video partition found
Checking Video padding... Video padding contains data, overwriting it with
zeroes...
Video padding zeroed successfully
Video CRC = 2F923C01 (V0 = DA920EFB, V1 = E47F6A94)
Video partition does not match known data (almost certainly corrupt)

Stealth status is uncertain

Starting Verification
Looking for 597D2C1262175C32.ini in the online verified database
There is no verified rip of this Xex/SS combination in the online database
Failed to find a verified ini file for this Xex/SS combination
Verification failed

Starting AutoFix
Looking for Xex_62175C32.ini in the online verified database
There is no verified rip of Xex CRC 62175C32 in the online database
Failed to find a verified ini file for this Xex
AutoFix Failed, Stealth is still uncertain

Cannot check SplitVid due to invalid or uncertain PFI/Video

Checking for AnyDVD style game data corruption while running CRC check...

Checking Game CRC... (press Q to cancel)
Percent Elapsed Estimated Time Average Current Errors Total
Done Time Time Left Speed Speed Recovered Retries
100% 6:22 6:22 0:00 18.2 MB/s 19.4 MB/s

AnyDVD style corruption was not detected
Game CRC = B4017AD6


Press any key to exit . . .

I transfer all my backups to external drives and have never had 1 corrupt. Just leave the pc alone while it transfers see if that helps

Keezie wrote:Video padding contains data

that should never happen
the padding is nothing but a crap load of "00000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
check your iso on the pc if it has the same thing then the iso is bad
if its good on the pc then something happened in the move to the HD from the pc
i have moved more than a few to a Hd and never had any trouble
let me know how it goes

When checking a game that is on my internal I get 0 errors through abgx and everything goes perfectly. But if I take that same iso, transfer to the external and recheck, I get errors like the one above. So I know for a fact its not the rip, yet the transfer process itself. But I don't see a reason for this to be happening considering I've transferred to and from drives before (although, this is a new external I'm using now)

do a full format of the drive and change the port you are using to hook it to the pc

thanks for the tip, i'll try that out. What a shame, i have so many games on there! piss!

I can't tell from your log, is the game CRC ok? I have a different value for it. In any case, if it's just the video partition that's messed up, you can patch the images with the video files in abgx or rip them from other images.

I don't know how your computer could mess up that one part of all your files like that. It sounds like the most likely suspect is the external though. Check it for badblocks, move a bunch of files to it, as close to full as possible, then checksum them and compare against the originals.

The game CRC's were not matching, even though i do a screenshot of my ABGX log every time i check my games and they were all okay before the transfer

I do have good news though: for an unrelated reason i formatted my hard drive on my PC today (not the external containing the games) and upon getting everything all setup i've found that the games that were previously giving me errors miraculously aren't anymore. i've checked about 10 games so far and haven't run into a single issue. I didn't change anything or alter any files on the external whatsoever, but for some reason my PC just didn't want to cooperate with it before the reformat

Just thought i would let you all know of this anomaly, and hopefully someone can come forward with some reason this may have happened

thanks for the tips anyways guys, i was a day away from reformatting the external and now i'm glad i didn't

good stuff
im glad you got it working