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 -- EMail:jo...@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'