Well, I discovered what the problem was. The CD's weren't damaged (at least, not enough to make them un-readable). They were burned in some kind of wierd funky Window's way that has made the last 150 megs or so on the CD prone to errors when being read.
Ah well. The data is lost to time now. David On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 17:06 -0500, James Kuhns wrote: > If they're just scratched up real bad it sounds more like a physical repair > job than a software extraction (or a combo of the two). You might want to > look into a GameDr (or DVDDr) whatever they're calling it now, about 20 or > 30 bucks at BestBuy (they also sell a motorized one for about $15 more). We > were getting a lot of dvds from NetFlix that were so scratched up they > wouldn't play so we invested in one - been well pleased with it. > > James > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of -ray > > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:08 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Linux CD Recovery Software > > > > > > Try creating a disk image of it first with dd: > > > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdrom.img bs=512 conv=noerror,sync > > > > Then see if enough of the filesystem structure survived to > > even mount it. > > And even then you may still have some corrupted data. If > > that doesn't > > work try the library thing Adam mentioned. Also, Gametraders > > in the mall > > offers a service to repair damaged game discs. I assume they > > could also > > repair a data disc. > > > > ray > > > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, David Jackson wrote: > > > > > Can anyone suggest a piece of software for recovery of > > badly scratched > > > CD's? (Data CD's). I have some old (very old) CD-R's that > > were damaged > > > in a move with some data I would like to retrieve off of them. > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
