Is there any app available to recover data from a CD with physical damage?
A friend a CD-R with a small ding near the outer edge which refuses to load
but the rest of the disc looks pristine and I’d like to pull the photo data
off the rest of the disc for if that is reasonable possible.
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Will Honea
Sounds a bit imposibble…
If your drive loads the CD then you can try to create an iso copy with k3b or other CD burning program, with Ignore Read Errors enabled.
You could try using ddrescue to copy the contents to an ISO file which you can then trawl for things to save at leisure.
ken yap wrote:
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> You could try using ddrescue to copy the contents to an ISO file which
> you can then trawl for things to save at leisure.
Thanks
Looks like it’s worth a try but I’m not conversant enough with CD formats to
figure just WTF is kept in those outer-most regions - it may be unable to
even mount. The particular disk was one in a set of 3 she had (don’t you
just love watching other peoples’ vacation photos?) and we just had time to
stuff them into a Samsung DVD player connected to the TV - no chance to get
it to a computer to see what it could find yet. The other two worked fine
(big yawn!)- same brand, made at the same time with the same laptop.
I need to look at this a bit harder and see just what structures are needed
to make even raw read possible. Not quite like a munged hard drive where
about the only damage that kills you is a busted head.
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Will Honea