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Looking for sort of quickpar but for entire disk
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| Hi to all!
A year ago or even longer, I read about about a utility, pretty sure it was
oss, that could create rescue-info for an entire DVD-rom, just like quickpar
can do for files. When the disk got damaged, it didn't matter what part was
damaged because the program was sort of a sector-reader and the redundant
rescue-info was calculated for every sector (and could be stored on e.g.
another DVD)(which again needs rescue-data which can be stored on yet
another DVD etc. ;-)).
Does anyone happen to know which this could be? I have been searching the
web and the ng's and have gotten huge numbers of pages/message's but they
are all not about this program that can create this recovery-data for an
ENTIRE disk.
Thank You very much in advance!
Yours sincerely,
Rene
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| It's crippleware, last I checked, but you might try Isobuster.
Joe
"Rene" <invalid@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> Hi to all!
>
> A year ago or even longer, I read about about a utility, pretty sure it
was
> oss, that could create rescue-info for an entire DVD-rom, just like
quickpar
> can do for files. When the disk got damaged, it didn't matter what part
was
> damaged because the program was sort of a sector-reader and the redundant
> rescue-info was calculated for every sector (and could be stored on e.g.
> another DVD)(which again needs rescue-data which can be stored on yet
> another DVD etc. ;-)).
>
> Does anyone happen to know which this could be? I have been searching the
> web and the ng's and have gotten huge numbers of pages/message's but they
> are all not about this program that can create this recovery-data for an
> ENTIRE disk.
>
> Thank You very much in advance!
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Rene
>
>
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> "Rene" <invalid@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> It's crippleware, last I checked, but you might try Isobuster.
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> Joe
Hello Joe,
Thank You for the reply but Isobuster is not the kind of program I am
looking for. What I am searching (and I know it exists) is a program that
creates extra information that can be used to repair a file or number of
files (or even non-file things on a disk like the TOC). That info can be
stored elsewhere. When a disk gets certain spots that can't be read anymore,
the extra info one had calculated before can be used to regenerate the info
that was in those spots. Isobuster only tries to read as much as possible
but things that are unreadable, can't be repaired anymore (I am not saying
that other program can repair the disk, but it'll copy all the sectors that
are still readable and then regenerate the broken ones so You can make a new
backup).
Greetings,
Rene
P.S. Should this interest You, You might take a look at e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-S...rror_correction .
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> Hello Joe,
>
> Thank You for the reply but Isobuster is not the kind of program I am
> looking for. What I am searching (and I know it exists) is a program that
> creates extra information that can be used to repair a file or number of
> files (or even non-file things on a disk like the TOC). That info can be
> stored elsewhere. When a disk gets certain spots that can't be read
anymore,
> the extra info one had calculated before can be used to regenerate the
info
> that was in those spots. Isobuster only tries to read as much as possible
> but things that are unreadable, can't be repaired anymore (I am not saying
> that other program can repair the disk, but it'll copy all the sectors
that
> are still readable and then regenerate the broken ones so You can make a
new
> backup).
>
> Greetings,
> Rene
>
> P.S. Should this interest You, You might take a look at e.g.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-S...rror_correction .
>
>
Thanks for the link--it does interest me, though I don't know when I'll
shake loose the time to look into it properly.
Joe
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