Re: [OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R

2009-08-07 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 08/06/2009 11:24 AM, Charlie Farinella wrote: dd if=/dev/dvd of=/somethingelse conv=sync,noerror if you go that route, otherwise your block alignment will get all hosed up (a dd bad default IMHO). -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Email, IM, VOIP:

[OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Jenkins
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

Re: [OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Dan Jenkinsd...@rastech.com wrote: A friend has a DVD-R which contains sentimental documents ... ... DVD has an imprint of the bubble wrap on the surface ... If sufficiently valuable, I would suggest a professional outfit. I've used CBL for hard disks before.

Re: [OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R

2009-08-06 Thread Charlie Farinella
- 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