[clue-tech] CD recovery

[Chris Hirsch]

Mike Staver wrote:
> I have a CD full of pictures that a user brought into my office this
> morning.  She says the pictures on there are important, but this is
> her only copy :(  The CD has no scratches on it and is 2 years old -
> she's saying it never worked right from when it got burned the first
> time.  So I mounted it and tried to view the files.  Several
> directories show up, and inside each directory it lists all the
> files.  The problem comes in when I try to copy them over to my home
> directory.  It reads about half the CD fine, but the second half
> errors out like so:
>
> cp: reading `Peru March 2004/P1011449.JPG': Input/output error
> cp: reading `Peru March 2004/P1011451.JPG': Input/output error
> cp: reading `Peru March 2004/P1011452.JPG': Input/output error
>
> Is there a utility available that I can try to recover these files
> with? My fear is that the CD is just crap and unreadable, but my hope
> is that this is a file system error something that I can recover from.
ddrescue http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html may be of help.