From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725C0138CC0 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:42:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12DEAE08BD; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-relay34-dus.antispameurope.com (mx-relay34-dus.antispameurope.com [94.100.134.234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC1FDE087E for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpsrv1.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([195.37.77.166]) by mx-gate34-dus.antispameurope.com; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:41:52 +0100 Received: from DIRAC.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([IPv6:2001:638:806:9::201]) by smtpsrv1.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t2JAfmma020694 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:41:48 +0100 Received: from rigel (10.147.13.100) by DIRAC.fokus.fraunhofer.de (10.147.9.201) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.224.2; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:41:48 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:41:48 +0100 From: Joerg Schilling To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium Message-ID: <550aa7ec.kkgVfDT++UoadyIW%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <201503131631.02862.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <55070a16.vqEIci9+glfm0MwN%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <201503162006.07804.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201503171640.59082.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201503171640.59082.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KSE-Antivirus-Interceptor-Info: protection disabled X-cloud-security-sender:joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de X-cloud-security-recipient:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-cloud-security-Virusscan:CLEAN X-cloud-security-disclaimer: This E-Mail was scanned by E-Mailservice on mx-gate34-dus with AA2282018002 X-cloud-security-connect: smtpsrv1.fokus.fraunhofer.de[195.37.77.166], TLS=, IP=195.37.77.166 X-cloud-security:scantime:.1686 X-Archives-Salt: 3b6b4e4f-0786-4745-93d5-163ec8ca17bd X-Archives-Hash: aa2481148f2f1a67c644342317db687a Mick 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 -- EMail:joerg@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'