Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I managed to recover the files on the CD!  I used ddrescue which eventually 
> was able to read the media and then ran photorec to retrieve the jpeg photos 
> from the rescued image.
>
> ddrescue could not read the CD every time, but reinserting a few times on my 
> laptop managed to start reading it.

Given the fact that readcd includes the best possible algorithm for recovering, 
this sounds a bit surprising. I however know that it sometimes helps to cool 
down the media a bit.

Jörg

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