| Amul Shah on 4 Nov 2014 12:02:11 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Ripping a scratched DVD |
Gavin, That's a nice pointer. Thanks! Amul > On Nov 3, 2014, at 8:16 AM, "Gavin W. Burris" <bug@wharton.upenn.edu> wrote: > > You may find that dd will bomb out on the scratches. I have recovered a > few disks that had scratches, including ones with intentionally > manufactured defects, with ddrescue. ddrescue will do the same thing as > dd, but optionally pad unreadable sectors with zeros on the first pass, > and then go back to attempt a re-read. I have had great success > recovering a few failing hard drives with it. > > ddrescue -n -b 2048 /dev/sr0 disk.iso disk.log > > Cheers. > >> On 11:34AM Sat 11/01/14 -0400, Michael Lazin wrote: >> If you are stuck using osx you can attempt a bit by bit copy with the "dd" command. You'd have to look up the mac specific syntax. You can run it in the terminal. Applications, utilities, terminal. You can make a mountable iso in this manner. >> >>> On November 1, 2014 9:27:12 AM EDT, Amul Shah <amul@amulz.com> wrote: >>> Folks, >>> My niece scratched her copy of Frozen and all I have at my cousins >>> place is Windows and Mac OS X. I tried handbrake and disk utility (Mac >>> equivalent of gparted), but both failed out with i/o errors. Has anyone >>> ever done this? >>> >>> The fun thing about Linux is that I can just download it and live boot >>> it! >>> >>> Thanks >>> Amul ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug