[color:"orange"]Could you possibly re-post your files because I am having the same exact problem to the letter.[/color]
Updated files and a streamlined version of the procedure is described below. I hope you didn't try following along with the convoluted method above.
[*] Use the recovery function in the freeware program
CDCheck to copy the rar file to your hard drive (this site also has links to other data recovery programs and services). Any parts of the file it can not read it will replace with zeros, so you should end up with a 500MB file, the same size as the original.
[*] Take the recovered 'imagelists.rar' file and run it through the physical file splitter
JR Split File, using a custom size of 526000 bytes. Leave the default split file name of 'imag'. This will produce 998 files (and a batch file to rejoin the pieces), some of which contain the unreadable or mostly unreadable sections from the CD. These pieces can be identified by verifying them against an MD5 checksum of a split, non-corrupt rar file.
[*] Download
this file (29KB) and extract the contents into the same folder as the split files. The zip file contains an MD5 checksum file as well as the program DVDsig (
homepage). Run the program and click on 'Verify' (click on 'Info' for help, if you wish).
Assuming a reasonable number of reported errors, it should be much easier to replace just those pieces than the full CPackedb.1c file. After replacing damaged sections of the rar file, the pieces can then be re-joined.
Once you have a working imagelists.rar file, you should back it up to CD-R, or if you have a DVD burner, you can zip the entire DD folder for an easy way to re-install the
patched game (Some re-release versions of the game may already be updated to the latest 1.0034A version, as shown in the bottom right corner of the main menu, so would not need to be patched).
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