Recovering media images

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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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|  | ### Recovering media images
Task | Recover the contents of a defective medium.
Required:
| A defective medium containing error correction data,
| or
| 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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