CD Data recovery

[nemo]

First want to say that everyone here has been very helpful. Kubuntu is great community as well as OS....Anyway

Newest problem I have a un-finalized cd that I need to recover. It only has photos on it, Does anyone know of a good program to use? I tried gddrescue, but it hasn't been able to recover it.

I appreciate any suggestions. Thank you.

[arochester]

Re: CD Data recovery

I have a un-finalized cd

How is it unfinalized? How is it formatted? Why can it not be mounted and read?

[nemo]

Re: CD Data recovery

How is it unfinalized?

My digital camera, (Sony MVC-CD1000) uses mini cd's. and I somehow got a disk error, and the camera won't read it now. and the camera's disk repair won't fix it. I have about 40 images on the disk. This happened once before and I was able to recover it (actually a friend who no longer lives around here recovered it), He was using suse, I am running Dapper.

[arochester]

Re: CD Data recovery

How about the application called "Dares"?:

rescue files from damaged CDs and DVDs (ncurses-interface)

Dares scans a CD/DVD image or a CD/DVD for files. This also works when
the filesystem (ISO-9660 or UDF) on the disc is damaged and cannot be mounted
anymore.

[nemo]

Re: CD Data recovery

Sounds good, but I'm getting the following error....

"opening image /dev/hdc: ok
Could not load file magic database file 'magic', using default database
block 0 (0 files)
block 0: read(): 5 (Input/output error)
error: scanned 0 2k blocks, found 0 files"

Any ideas?

[penguin.ch]

Re: CD Data recovery

How about "good old" dd_rescue ... 8)