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Contents

News
Overview
Howtos
·The big picture
·Scanning media for errors
·Putting error correction data on a separate file
·Putting error correction data on the medium
·Recovering media images
-Basic settings
-Recovering the image
-Advanced settings
·Getting information about images and error correction data
·Testing image compatibility
·Dialogs and buttons
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Bug reporting

Recovering media images

Task Recover the contents of a defective medium.
 
Required:

Icon: Damaged medium with error correction data A defective medium containing error correction data,
or
Icon: Damaged medium (partially unreadable) Icon: Separate file with error correction data a defective medium with an appropriate error correction file*).
 
What to do:

1. Configure basic settings for reading,
2a. create an ISO image from the defective medium,
2b. recover the image and write it to new medium.

Create and recover the ISO image...



*)The error correction file must have been created at a time the medium was still intact: It is not possible to create error correction data from an already defective medium.
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