----- "Dan Jenkins" <d...@rastech.com> wrote: > May be Linux related, if anyone can suggest Linux tools to use. :-) > > A friend has a DVD-R which contains sentimental documents from her > mother & father who passed away recently. The DVD is unreadable. The > DVD-R was burned April 2008 and was stored since then in a bubble-wrap > > envelope and, by the appearance, squeezed under a pile or between > books. > The surface of the DVD has an imprint of the bubble wrap on the > surface, > which several cleaning passes (DVD cleaner & alcohol with a microfiber > > cloth from a DVD cleaning kit) did not completely remove. The disk > simply fails to read anything. > > Any suggestions? Including data recovery services who might be able to > help. > Thanks.
Did you try copy the disk? dd if=/dev/dvd of=/somethingelse This has *sometimes* worked for me with unreadable or damaged media. good luck. -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. 603.924.6079 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/