<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Recovering media images</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../include/dvdisaster.css"> </head> <body> <!--- Title header ---> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td align="left"> <font size="+3"><b>dvdisaster</b></font> <i>Version 0.72 (pl2)</i> </td> <td align="right"> <font size="+3"> </font><a href="http://dvdisaster.net/en/">To the Internet version</a> <a href="../de/howtos40.html"></a> <a href="../ru/howtos40.html"></a> </td> </tr> </table> <!--- Language chooser or separator ---> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr bgcolor="#000000"> <td colspan="2" width="100%"><img width=1 height=1 alt=""></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" width="100%" height="10"> <img width=1 height=1 alt=""> </td></tr> </table> <!--- Main body (Navigation, actual page content, optional news column) ---> <table width="100%" cellspacing=0> <tr> <!--- Navigation ---> <td 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colspan="2"><b>Required:</b><p></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="150px" align="right"> <img src="../images/bad-cd-ecc.png" align="top"> </td> <td> A defective medium containing <a href="howtos30.html">error correction data</a>, </td> </tr> <tr><td></td><td>or</td></tr> <tr> <td width="150px" align="right"> <img src="../images/bad-cd.png"> <img src="../images/ecc.png"> </td> <td> a defective medium with an appropriate <a href="howtos20.html">error correction file</a><a href="howtos40.html#footnote"><sup>*)</sup></a>. </td> </tr> <tr><td> <pre> </pre> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><b>What to do:<p></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> 1. <a href="howtos41.html">Configure basic settings for reading,</a><br> 2a. <a href="howtos42.html#a">create an ISO image from the defective medium,</a><br> 2b. <a href="howtos42.html#b">recover the image and write it to new medium.</a> </td> </tr> </table><p> <a href="howtos42.html">Create and recover the ISO image...</a> <pre> </pre> <!--- do not change below ---> <table width="30%" cellpadding="0"><tr bgcolor="#000000"><td><img width=1 height=1 alt=""></td></tr></table> <a name="footnote"><sup>*)</sup>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.</a> </td> <!--- end of page contents ---> </tr> <tr valign="bottom"> <td bgcolor="#f0f0f0"> <table cellpadding="10"><tr><td><a href="http://dvdisaster.net/legacy/en/index.html"><font size="-1">Old documentation (V0.70)</font></a></td></tr></table> </td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> <!--- end of main body table ---> <!--- Page footer ---> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr><td colspan="2" width="100%" height="10"><img width=1 height=1 alt=""></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#000000"><td colspan="2" width="100%"><img width=1 height=1 alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <font size="-1"> <i> Copyright 2004-2009 Carsten Gnörlich.<br> Verbatim copying and 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