Saturday, January 28, 2012

decio: il blog: How to recover files from a damaged CD/DVD

decio: il blog: How to recover files from a damaged CD/DVD

9 commenti:

Thomas ha detto...

Is there an easier, faster command than dd (I already know about dd_rescue)

I read about and used (to recover a DVD) another command similar to dd, but it ignored errors with no difficulty. It had the name dm or ddm or something like that. Have you ever heard of such a command?

I worked like a charm, and did not take nearly as long as dd is taking on my computer.

Decio Biavati ha detto...

Thanks for your useful comment and for stopping by.

Do you refer to sdd command? I never used it (I don't know dm or ddm either), although dd is very time expensive when deling with errors.

I will update the post if I will find some news.

Anonimo ha detto...

You should see dd_rescue at http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/.

Cheers!
emdmarques@gmail.com

Decio Biavati ha detto...

@emdmarques: thank you for the hint! I will try dd_rescue any time soon.

Thanks for stopping by.

Ralph ha detto...

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.


Ruth

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Kiran R ha detto...

I am using cygwin on windows xp to try and recover my DVD that is not being recognized in Windows

Unfortunately when I try:
ddrescue -n -b 2048 /cygdrive/c /dvd/a.iso /dvd/a.log
It shows up as
"Medium not found"

is there any way to make this work

Decio Biavati ha detto...

@Kiran: I never tried on cygwin, I don't know if there are issues regarding ddrescue...
I will try and be back with results in few days.

Thanks for asking.

SanskritFritz ha detto...

Thanks for the useful tip. I just recovered a CD with a movie on it, so I could watch it with my son, as I promised him earlier. He sends his thanks ;-)
I reckon you are using GoboLinux?

Makis ha detto...

Thank you for this! I have had exactly the same problem with some disks, with your help it seems like I can also rip them.

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