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Damaged/Unmoutable DVD recover data from...

Asked by NOnameatall

My Back In Time backup DVD will not mount and is evidently damaged. i need to restore critical files due to a re-installation of U 10.04. Does anyone have experience with a data recovery program that will read the DVD without mounting and recover as much of the files as possible? Big Thanks for the help!

Chazbo

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You can try using foremost on the unmounted DVD. I'd backup to a better medium than DVD as scratches and such can make them useless.

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PeterPall (peterpall) said : 		#2

If you have appended data to the DVD multiple times chances are high that at least first view write sessions to the DVD are still intact.e mount

Using something like

mount /dev/dvd /mnt -o session=2
Will mount the DVD as it was after the second time you wrote to it - and allow you at least to recover the old state of your files.

A better idea might be to try a different DVD drive if you have access to a different computer: Sometimes one drive cannot mount a DVD another can.

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NOnameatall (9nonameatall-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.