On 11/01/2016 03:39 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote: >> Out of curiosity, since I've never done this either but have heard >> most folks suggest it. How do you seal the newly made jacket? Is it >> not necessary or folks using scotch tape? > > Well, I made a number of these this weekend and I just left the end > open. The hub keeps the cookie in place. Thanks to everyone for the > input. > > So, I was able to image half of the disks without issue. The others > all had a few bad tracks. On most of those I don't see any physical > damage so I was wondering if there were any other techniques to > possibly recover those tracks? Baking the cookie? Is there a good > tool to merge tracks from multiple disks if I find another copy of > the software that has the missing tracks?
If the errors accumulate on the middle-to-inner tracks, consider the possibility that the original drive's alignment may not match that of the drive you're using to read them. On several occasions, I've had to "un/disk-align" a drive to get decent results on certain disks. --Chuck
