On Saturday 29 May 2004 16:37, Zainul M Charbiwala wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:11:44 +0530 jtd jtdsouza@softhome.net wrote:
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It says "No medium found" ! (The same as when I tried a dd)
The trouble is that the TOC is damaged and it thus refuses to believe that a CD exists in the drive let alone detect the number of tracks/sessions.
AFAIK (read this with a pinch of salt) if the first TOC is damaged u cant recover as the end of session location cannot be found and hence the next toc. In a multisession the last toc is the merge of all the previous toc. If the disk has defects the last toc gets corrupt, but (ususally) the earlier tocs are ok and hence recovery is possible. Also files are written as one single track (track size +padding >= sizeof (file1+file2+..filen)). Thus there is no way of recovering files without knowing their sizes.
The only way I can think of is trying to dump the raw contents of the CD somehow and then use some automation to figure where the sessions begin and end. Then use cdfs and a loopmount to get all the files back.
AND google for cdfs
Apparently, the only software I have found which overrides the temptation to believe that there is no CD in the drive is a Windows software called BadCopy. I could recover some files using that, but not many.
What software did u use to record the cd?