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From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:42:02
Message-Id: 550aa7ec.kkgVfDT++UoadyIW%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium by Mick
1 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
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4 > I managed to recover the files on the CD! I used ddrescue which eventually
5 > was able to read the media and then ran photorec to retrieve the jpeg photos
6 > from the rescued image.
7 >
8 > ddrescue could not read the CD every time, but reinserting a few times on my
9 > laptop managed to start reading it.
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11 Given the fact that readcd includes the best possible algorithm for recovering,
12 this sounds a bit surprising. I however know that it sometimes helps to cool
13 down the media a bit.
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15 Jörg
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18 EMail:joerg@××××××.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
19 joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
20 URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'