Looking for tool to recover data from damaged DVDs

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Tue Nov 28 20:34:08 UTC 2006


Paul Smith wrote:
> On 11/28/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> > Is there some tool to recover data from damaged DVDs?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Is it scratched? Or what? What kind of damage?
>>
>> You might go by a place which sells video games for Play Stations
>> and the like, and get a "CD polishing" or "DVD restorer" kit. I
>> haven't used one.
> 
> My DVDs do not look damaged or scratched, but I am always getting I/O
> errors. Is there some way of circumventing those I/O errors?
> 
> Paul
> 
Always getting errors?  Are these ones you've burned yourself?  Do any
other DVDs have problems?  Have you tried them in another box?  Could be
a hardware problem.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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