From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:41:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <550aa7ec.kkgVfDT++UoadyIW%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201503171640.59082.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I managed to recover the files on the CD! I used ddrescue which eventually
> was able to read the media and then ran photorec to retrieve the jpeg photos
> from the rescued image.
>
> ddrescue could not read the CD every time, but reinserting a few times on my
> laptop managed to start reading it.
Given the fact that readcd includes the best possible algorithm for recovering,
this sounds a bit surprising. I however know that it sometimes helps to cool
down the media a bit.
Jörg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-19 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-13 16:30 [gentoo-user] Damaged CD medium Mick
2015-03-13 16:56 ` David W Noon
2015-03-13 17:10 ` wabenbau
2015-03-13 17:37 ` Mick
2015-03-13 17:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2015-03-13 17:55 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-03-13 22:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-14 0:24 ` Mick
2015-03-14 7:56 ` Mick
2015-03-16 10:20 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-03-16 10:19 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-03-16 16:26 ` Mick
2015-03-16 16:51 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-03-16 20:05 ` Mick
2015-03-17 16:40 ` Mick
2015-03-19 10:41 ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2015-03-19 10:28 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-03-13 17:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Fernando Rodriguez
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