Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Reading a heavily damaged CD

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Michael,

Michael Krylov wrote:
> So, thus, my question is: is there a way to make drive to see that
> scratched CD inside when I put it, and then use ddrescue to restore even
> 1% of data from it?

I don't know, but have you tried dvdisaster?

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html#Optical-media

In some cases, a specialized tool like dvdisaster may be a better option 
than ddrescue for recovering data from CD-ROMs because dvdisaster can 
read and analyze raw CD sectors, which ddrescue can't.


Best regards,
Antonio.