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I just had a friend send me some discs with some important personal files on it(backups I had sent him before I recently formatted my system) and I just received them in the mail. Upon copying the files onto my disc, one of them(sadly, one of the larger ones at 200+ megs) suddenly went from taking a few minutes to copy to a few hours. A pretty common issue with CD''s that are damaged in some way.
I cleaned the disc off as there was some smudging, and the problem still remains. I''ve attempted this under both my Windows2k and *nix partitions, and both timeout and eventually give up. I''m aware of certain extraction tools such as cdparanoia that are used for audio extraction on bad CD''s, and I''m wondering if anyone can point me to such a tool.
I /can/ get the disc re-sent to me, but it''d be a hassle and a timewaster.
Any help would definitely be appreciated in this matter.
-run
- It''s a life''s work
-ryan@lecherousjester.com