dvdisaster Version 0.72.6 / 0.79 (devel-3)  To the Internet version
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
·Getting information about images and error correction data
·Testing image compatibility
·Dialogs and buttons
-Drive selection
-Image file selection
-Error correction file selection
-Starting actions
Download
Questions and Answers
Bug reporting

Starting actions

To start an action in dvdisaster, click on one of the buttons marked green:

dvdisaster UI: Read (button)   Reading medium contents into an image file to:
dvdisaster UI: Create (button)   Creating an error correction file
(only possible from defect-free media!)
dvdisaster UI: Scan (button)   Scanning a medium for read errors.
dvdisaster UI: Fix (button)   Recover the image of a defective medium
provided that error correction data is available.
dvdisaster UI: Verify (button)   Display information on images and error correction data.

Other buttons related to the above actions:

dvdisaster UI: View log (button)   View log file of running action (marked yellow).
See also: Log file creation.
dvdisaster UI: Stop (button)   Aborting the running action (marked red).
Some actions may take some time to abort; especially when this button is hit while reading a defective sector.
Starting actions

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