Re: [Dvdrtools-users] cdread: Read-only file system

[Sean Johnson]

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Andre Dalle wrote:
| I've never used cdread.  If you simply want to capture the image of
| the disk, "dd" will do the job.
|
| dd if=/dev/hdc of=image.iso
|
| Note if there is a bad sector on the disk that can't be read dd will
| stop at that point and you'll get an incomplete image.
|

If you use the conv=noerror, dd will try to pass over the unreadable
sectors. This still might lead to an incomplete image, but I've used to
pull data from a damaged disc that wouldn't have been obtainable otherwise.

Just my 2c.

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