How to dump ring-protected DVD games?

[Lugamo]

I have a copy of a Spanish DVD re-release of Patrician III, which according to Alcohol 120% has ring protection between the sectors 478720 and 508463. I tried using the --help command via PowerShell, but it only flashes for a split second before closing. I've used the following command, without much success:

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CDArchive.exe --mode=ext --extrdiscmode=dvd --extrdrive=F --extrsectdir="M:\CDArchive\Patrician III" --extrstart=0 --extrend=1046592 --exttrefcue="M:\CDArchive\Patrician III\IMAGE.cue"

I replaced the "0" with 478720 and 478000, and "1046592" with 508463 and 509000. In all instances, the program flashes, and never shows any text.

The .cue file has this format:

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FILE "FILE.ISO" BINARY 
 TRACK 01 MODE3/2048
   INDEX 01 00:00:00

For the record, the volume label is "Patrician III". How should I proceed? The optical drives I have are a LG WH14NS40 and a Plextor PX-755A. In addition, I have Spanish FX Interactive releases of Patrician IV and Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper.

[Lugamo]

I have been trying to dump Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper, which according to Alcohol 120% has ring protection between the sectors 461733 and 493055. Thanks to (I think) a tutorial to fix the "This app has been blocked for your protection" error, now CDArchive no longer flashes.
I tried using the following command:

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CDArchive.exe --mode=ext --extrdiscmode=dvd --extrdrive=F --extrsectdir="I:\CDArchive\SH5" --extrstart=461733 --extrend=493055 --extrrefcue="I:\CDArchive\SH5\SH5.cue"

The .cue file has this format:

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FILE "SH5.ISO" BINARY
 TRACK 01 MODE3/2048
   INDEX 01 00:00:0

However, I still get the following error:

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Error extracting sectors: 2

What can I do?

[reentrant]

Maybe you forgot to set corect current directory? 2 - error file not found. I'd also select different directory for extracted sectors...

[Lugamo]

Maybe you forgot to set corect current directory? 2 - error file not found.

Indeed, I did. I forgot to include the folder "ISO". I can't believe I've made such a basic mistake.
The new command being:

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CDArchive.exe --mode=ext --extrdiscmode=dvd --extrdrive=F --extrsectdir="I:\CDArchive\ISO\SH5" --extrstart=461733 --extrend=493055 --extrrefcue="I:\CDArchive\ISO\SH5\SH5.cue"

However, this did not work, and I still get the same error.

I'd also select different directory for extracted sectors...

Is enough to extract them in a different folder outside of "I:\CDArchive" within the I:\ partition or it would be better to have them extracted in a different partition or hard disk?

Edit: Tried three options ["I:\ISO\SH5\SH5.cue", "M:\ISO\SH5\SH5.cue" (different partition, same disk), "J:\ISO\SH5\SH5.cue" (different partition and disk)], neither worked out.

[Lugamo]

I am ashamed to say this, but until I read this post, I thought that CDArchive was to be used on its own to dump ring-protected DVD games, given that it is the only program mentioned in the DVD section of the article.
I dumped Patrician III: El imperio de los mares with CloneCD and DiscImageCreator, and in general terms the range of the ring seems to cover the sectors 478738-508447.
The original CloneCD image did not have anything between the sectors 478720-478737 and 508448-508480. I got the missing sectors with CDArchive that will be attached to this post. DiscImageCreator did obtain data for those sectors, however. Should I re-read the 478738-508447 sectors? How many retries should I do?

[reentrant]

Hi,
There's no limit for number of retries. I usually specified 10 retries not to hammer the drive much...

[Lugamo]

Hi,
There's no limit for number of retries. I usually specified 10 retries not to hammer the drive much...

I was interested in a minimum because the ring covers 29K sectors. I settled for 3 retries, which I hope is enough. So far, the last sector re-read (in reverse) was 486603, once I'm done I'm submitting the dump.