[plug] Getting data off a damaged DVD

[Brad Campbell]

Andrew Furey wrote:
> On 6/30/06, Tomasz Grzegurzko <tomasz89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You can try putting it in the freezer for a while, then when it's
>> still cold (but not wet) try reading it again. Works for me
>> (sometimes) to recover hard to reach data =)
> 
> Isn't that mainly for hard drives, due to overheating mechanical
> components? (In saying that, I've never [succesfully] done it for
> either...).
> 
> Senectus, look into dd_rescue... works wonders for me.

I'm using dd_rescue supplemented by dd_rhelp right now for exactly this purpose (it's been running 
for about 28 hours so far)

It's about as good as you are going to get.

Brad
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