dvdisaster Version 0.72.6 / 0.79 (devel-3) | To the Internet version

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
· | Getting information about images and error correction data
· | Testing image compatibility
· | Dialogs and buttons
| - | Drive selection
| - | Image file selection
| - | Error correction file selection
| - | Starting actions
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Questions and Answers
Bug reporting
|  | ### Starting actions
To start an action in dvdisaster, click on one of the buttons marked green:
| Reading medium contents into an image file to: read in a defective medium for a subsequent recovery. read in an error-free medium for creating an error correction file.
| Creating an error correction file (only possible from defect-free media!)
| Scanning a medium for read errors.
| Recover the image of a defective medium provided that error correction data is available.
| Display information on images and error correction data.
Other buttons related to the above actions:
| View log file of running action (marked yellow). See also: Log file creation.
| Aborting the running action (marked red). Some actions may take some time to abort; especially when this button is hit while reading a defective sector.
Screen shot: Starting actions

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