diff --git a/DiscImageChef/StringHandlers.cs b/DiscImageChef/StringHandlers.cs
index a5762661..faba521a 100644
--- a/DiscImageChef/StringHandlers.cs
+++ b/DiscImageChef/StringHandlers.cs
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ namespace DiscImageChef
         /// <param name="SpacePaddedString">A space (' ', 0x20, ASCII SPACE) padded ASCII byte array</param>
         public static string SpacePaddedToString(byte[] SpacePaddedString)
         {
-            int length;
+            int length = 0;
 
             for (int i = SpacePaddedString.Length; i >= 0; i--)
             {
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ namespace DiscImageChef
                 }
             }
 
+            if (length == 0)
+                return "";
+
             return Encoding.ASCII.GetString(SpacePaddedString, 0, length);
         }
     }