Cowboy Bebop Complete Series

[cloudygiraffe]

I just bought the blu ray complete version from my local target, came home and tried to rip the series. Popped in Disk 1, no disk read, so i eject and wipe it off to try it again. Still nothing so I exit makemkv and reopen to try again, still no disk. Restarted the computer and still no disk. Thought maybe it was just that external drive so I tried my other one with the same pattern of trial to no success. I went onto trying the second disk and still nothing. I have had this problem with several other disks in my journey of creating my plex library and was wondering if some of these disks maybe have some sort of protection on them to not allow for ripping? I have come across the Lionsgate method of spamming you with files but not even reading a disk that will play if I put it into a regular blu ray player connected to the TV not attempting to rip it.

[Woodstock]

If you're getting a "no disk" error, that's coming from the operating system... it's not detecting a formatted disk in the drive. That usually comes from not being able to read parts of the center portion of the disk, where the directory (and other related) information is found.

[cloudygiraffe]

If you're getting a "no disk" error, that's coming from the operating system... it's not detecting a formatted disk in the drive. That usually comes from not being able to read parts of the center portion of the disk, where the directory (and other related) information is found.

Is there any way around this error?

[Woodstock]

Cleaning the disk is the most likely way to get it recognized. At the top of this forum, there is a topic on read errors that probably applies to this.

[Woodstock]

If cleaning the disk did more than remove the obstructions to reading the data, optical disk formats would have died about 2 weeks after the first CDs hit the streets.

The data is on a layer underneath a protective plastic resin. Anything atop that layer interferes with the laser's ability to read the data. Scratches in that layer scatter the laser light, interfering with reading the microscopic bits.