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A Starter's guide on recovering damaged and rotten CDs

Table of Contents PreludePreventive Measures to Disc RotReading data from a Damaged CD / DVDThe PlanCreating Disc Image using DVDisasterCreating Disc Image using DDrescueCreating Disc Image using T…

To recover data from a damaged medium, we need specialized tools that are aware of this problem and will continue with the reading process, even after encountering errors. b : Block Size as 2048 (default blocksize of DVD) n : No scrape ( Skip the bad sectors) v : Verbose/dev/cdrom : The path to mounted CD (This will vary on distros) dvd.iso : Output image to write rescue.log : Log file TestDisk is a free and open source tool, that helps users recover lost partitions or repair corrupted filesystems.

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