[plug] Cdr data recovery with Linux

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Thu Jun 10 17:59:00 WST 2004


On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 21:32, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone here tried to recover data from CD's or have any ideas about
> > how to go about it?
> 
> start with dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso
> 

I can't seem to make this work.

I just get:

dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.024508 seconds (0 bytes/sec)

It does work with a known good CD but this isn't going to help me.

thanks,

Chris
> then you have a decent backup and can try and work from there.
> Regards,
> Brad
> 




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