![]() Reducing the cdrom speedĪs mentioned, spinning a damaged cdrom up to high speeds might not be the wisest endeavor, and it certainly won't help the rescue effort (it's generally easier to read the text on slow moving cars, right?). You should then end up with an "iso" image of the disk, which you can then burn to a new cd-r or use with some disk emulating software. You might want to add the option -r to try reading more times, and -S or -p for convenience. You should have a look at the ddrescue manual, but a basic example (Example 3 in the manual) for recovering a cdrom is ddrescue -n -b2048 /dev/cdrom cdimage logfileĭdrescue -d -b2048 /dev/cdrom cdimage logfile If you run *nix it will run natively and is likely in your package manager or what have you not (macports?), otherwise it's included in many Linux live disks, some are listed in this thread. I suggest you attemt to use ddrescue to recover what you can from the disk. ![]() ![]() Losing a copy of PS:T would be a great loss to the world! Recovering with ddrescue ![]()
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