Uh-oh, my drive is [Purged]...

[ferrarabrainpan]

I just purchased a new Dell Windows 11 desktop PC. Looking in System Information or Device Manager, I find my CD-ROM drive is listed as:

ATA HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GU90N

which happens to be the same drive in my previous Dell desktop which I purchased in 2018, a drive with which I made ultra-secure and accurate rips of many thousands of CDs using CD Ripper. Now I go to this page and am disappointed and somewhat disturbed to read:

"A small number of drives have [Purged] as the offset, these drives were found not to have a constant drive offset (perhaps different manufacturing batches, or firmwares), as such they have been removed from AccurateRip's drive database (should you have one of these drives, 3 matching key disks will be required to configure AccurateRip)."

I scroll down and find that my drive is one listed as [Purged].

Now what am I supposed to do? What are matching key disks and how do I go about getting three of them, and what do I do with them when I get them? I already started copying over the settings and naming profiles from CD Ripper on my old computer to my new computer, and as I am about to get down to the nitty gritty, I am stumped by this.

Please help me out. I was bracing myself for the challenge of setting up CD Ripper but now it looks like it's going to be even more troublesome than I expected.

I've attached a couple screenshots which are Greek to me but maybe Spoon or someone can make sense of the details...

[Spoon]

It will be more difficult to configure, you might need to feed the drive some 50 discs, instead of 1.

[ferrarabrainpan]

It will be more difficult to configure, you might need to feed the drive some 50 discs, instead of 1.

I still don't understand. 50 is a lot more than 3. Please explain, is there a link or tutorial telling me how to proceed?

Or would I be better off buying a different drive and getting someone to install it? If so, where would I buy one and what one would I buy? When I ordered this PC from Dell and had them assemble the components I asked about the optical drive and was told I basically have no choice, they install whatever they have in the warehouse, I have no choice as to brand or model.

FWIW, this appears to be the same drive I was using for those thousands of rips I made with my last PC, all presumable secure and accurate. Or at least CD Ripper logged them as such, and I never heard any audible glitches.

Please give me some more information, I am pretty stupid about this stuff but I am serious about it.

EDIT: is there a section or paragraph on this page that tells me what to do and how to do it, given my circumstances, please?

[garym]

Nothing really special to do. Just keep inserting reasonably popular CDs. Eventually it will setup accuraterip. Might take 2 or 3 CDs. Might take 25+. But it will eventually setup accuraterip.

[ferrarabrainpan]

Nothing really special to do. Just keep inserting reasonably popular CDs. Eventually it will setup accuraterip. Might take 2 or 3 CDs. Might take 25+. But it will eventually setup accuraterip.

I have some reasonably popular CDs. When it says "3 matching key disks" does "matching" mean multiple copies of the same CD?

Perhaps I haven't read far enough in the setup guide to quite get what you mean. Thanks for your time and patience with my doubts and confusions...

[garym]

No. Matching key disks just means any known CDs. But it could take several. Not multiple copies of same disk. For example a Beatles CD, a Rolling Stones CD and a Who CD. That would be 3 key disks.

[Spoon]

The discs cannot have different pressings
so it means it will take more than 3 matching discs.

[ferrarabrainpan]

The discs cannot have different pressings
so it means it will take more than 3 matching discs.

I have no idea what you are really trying to say. If you have the time and patience to elaborate and address the questions I posed ("is there a link or tutorial telling me how to proceed? would I be better off buying a different drive and getting someone to install it? If so, where would I buy one and what one would I buy?") that would be much appreciated. Your curt replies have only managed to compound my doubts and uncertainties. I still don't know what is meant by "matching discs".

I posted here so I could get some clarification and directions. If none are forthcoming then I may as well just struggle on my own with the setup guide and make whatever mistakes I will make, and hope for the best.

[GBrown]

I posted here so I could get some clarification and directions. If none are forthcoming then I may as well just struggle on my own with the setup guide and make whatever mistakes I will make, and hope for the best.

Simple, keep trying more discs with a preference for larger releases. Once dbpa confirms the drive has been calibrated you can start ripping.

[ferrarabrainpan]

When I asked for help on the JRiver interact forum about restoring the library from my old PC to the new one, I got detailed explanations and instructions. When I asked for help on the HiFi Haven forum with getting SACD Extract set up on a new PC and wifi network, I got all the help I needed. I was hoping for a similar level of support here.

But it's all good as they say, I know you folks aren't getting paid to answer my dumb questions.

[garym]

I'm not sure how much simpler I can make it. When you are setting up dbpoweramp for secure ripping it will tell you to feed it (insert) a CD. To setup AccurateRip you will have to feed it more than one CD. Not multiple copies of the same CD, just different, non-obscure CDs. With a purged CD drive, it will take feeding several CDs to eventually make it finish the setup. Could be 4 CDs, could be 30 CDs. Just keep trying until it says OK, accuraterip configured.

Please clarify which part of these instructions is not clear and I'll try to clarify.