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file to her desktop, she would get the same error, informing herthe file could not be copied due to some type of corruption. She wanted to know if I could possibly help. I opened the cd in my own cd-rom unreadable dvd recovery drive and tried copying the file she was having a problem with and I realized it how to recover data from scratched dvd couldn't be copied on my system either. Therefore, in all likelihood, itwas the cd itself that was problematic, not the system, player or other hardware. The
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error received when trying to copy the file was a cyclic redundancycheck (CRC) error. In fact, this is the most common error encountered with cd/dvd access or copying problems and I knew that such a problem was often caused by a dirty
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or scratched disc, so I examined the surface of the cd and just as I suspected, it was marked. It had a distinct smudgeprinton it. I cleaned the whole cd and after doing so, voila! ,I was able to copy the needed file from the cd to my hard drive.I informed her that the problem was fixed and when I told her it was just a matter of cleaning the disc, she was surprised that the solutionwas so simple and never thought such a confoundingproblem copy scratched dvd could be caused by a less than pristine condition cd. The fact is that cds and dvds can be very finicky. Just one speck of dirt or a hairline scratch can cause problems in accessing your data or the disc itself. These marks can make it difficult for the drive's laser beam to properly read the disc. Fortunately, dirty discs can be cleaned. Scratches can be more problematic, though, in many cases they can be repaired. With scratches, the severity of the problemdepends muchon the type and location of the scratch.Scratches that run across the disc or along the track, as opposed to those that run in a straight line from rim to center, can be the most difficult to repair. These type of problems are unique to cd and dvd media because the surfaces of the discs are bare and exposed, offering no protection against dust, finger prints,smudge, dirt and scratches. An exception is most dvd-ram discs which are encased in protective cartridges. Hard drives are enclosed in a tough metal shell and even cheap floppy discs are protected with a plastic cartridge. It should be stated that most scratches and marks do not usually affect playing a cd or dvd butwhen a problem accessing a cd or filedoes occur, the reason is most often dirt or scratches on crucial sections of the disc. For example, if the lead in area or end points is damaged, you will most likely have problems accessing the cd or dv
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optical disc, retrying until they recover every possible file. The leading tool is probably Isobuster, but there are dozens of candidates for the title. There are few automated (or even user-friendly) data recovery tools on Linux or UNIX(tm) platforms, but common tools which are often even included with the core system or which are installable through the official package system are often sufficient for performing this critical task. One particularly frustrating way to lose data is by burning it to an optical disc and storing it. One often attempts to preserve data this way, only to have cheap media or a cheap storage container (especially binders) destroy the disc beyond repair. Sometimes, however, the data around the error (or at least up to it, which is sometimes still better than nothing) may still be readable if you use a tool more complicated than the 'cp' command (or selecting and dragging files in the file manager of your choice.) Copying an entire disc One excellent starting point is to use GNU dd (from GNU coreutils) or other, similarly capable implementations to recover the data on a damaged optical disc (though perhaps not one so damaged as the one on the right.) A handful of the available options are especially helpful. Here's a possibly excessive example command line for copying a whole disc: dd if=/dev/sr0 of=image.iso bs=2048 conv=noerror,notrunc iflag=nonblock dd is an exceptionally useful utility. The GNU dd manpage says of dd that it will "Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands." We don't do any conversion, but we do specify some options as to how to go about reading the data: From my first cd-rom drive (if=/dev/sr0) I read to an appropriately named ISO file (of=image.iso). I specify a block size (bs=2048 means 2048 bytes, or 2 KiB) and some options (conv=noerror,notrunc): noerror causes dd to continue after a read error, and notrunc will avoid any automatic truncation of the output file. iflag=nonblock sets an "input flag" that causes dd to use non-blocking I/O, which should minimize the impact on your system at the possible expense of speed during the copy. Since I always assume that the copy will take a more or less indefinite period of time, this does not offend me at all, but I admit that it also helps to have an external DVD burner lying around as a backup in case I change my mind and decide that I really n