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I have a corrupt mini DVD, which was used in a camcorder. It appears to be corrupt (did not play on camcorder) and won't open. I don't know what to try to fix it. Is there a way?

billy@marara-ubu:/media$ sudo mount -t udf -o ro /dev/sr0 /media/cd
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

billy@marara-ubu:/media$ sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /media/cd
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

billy@marara-ubu:/media$ sudo cdrwtool -i -d /dev/sr0 
using device /dev/sr0
448KB internal buffer
setting write speed to 12x

DISC INFO:
        erasable : No
        border = 2
        Disc status = 1
        number of first track = 1
        number of sessions = 1
        number of tracks = 1
        status of last track = 3
        uru = 1
        did_v = 0
        dbc_v = 0
        disc type = 0
        disc_id = 0
        lead_in = 00:00:00 (0)
        lead_out = 00:00:00 (0)
        OPC entries = 0

TRACK INFO:

Track 1
        track_number = 1
        session_number = 1
        damage = 0
        copy = 0
        track_mode = 4
        Rt = 1
        blank = 1
        packet = 1
        fp = 0
        data_mode = 1
        lra_v = 0
        nwa_v = 0
        track_start = 0
        next_writable = 0
        last_recorded = 0
        free_blocks = 12272
        packet_size = 16
        track_size = 12272 (24544KB)

Track 2
        track_number = 2
        session_number = 1
        damage = 0
        copy = 0
        track_mode = 4
        Rt = 1
        blank = 1
        packet = 1
        fp = 0
        data_mode = 1
        lra_v = 0
        nwa_v = 0
        track_start = 12288
        next_writable = 12288
        last_recorded = 0
        free_blocks = 176
        packet_size = 16
        track_size = 176 (352KB)

Track 3
        track_number = 3
        session_number = 1
        damage = 1
        copy = 0
        track_mode = 4
        Rt = 0
        blank = 0
        packet = 1
        fp = 0
        data_mode = 1
        lra_v = 0
        nwa_v = 0
        track_start = 12480
        next_writable = 0
        last_recorded = 0
        free_blocks = 0
        packet_size = 16
        track_size = 701472 (1402944KB)
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  • where do you get 'corrupt' out of these messages? there are 2 pointers in your text: syslog and dmesg|tail. What did those tell you?
    – Rinzwind
    Apr 1, 2013 at 18:02
  • @Rinzwind because the disc won't read on the device, I expect it is corrupt. And because I am unable to use dd to copy the binary data.
    – Billy Moon
    Apr 1, 2013 at 18:38
  • But you 1st need to mount it correctly ... the 1st 2 commands seem to use the wrong filesystem. dd comes after mounting ;)
    – Rinzwind
    Apr 1, 2013 at 18:50
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    @Rinzwind I am pretty sure dd comes before mounting. I usually unmount things before copying them with dd. It works on the device level, copying the 0s and the 1s, and not even looking at anything as abstracted as a file. When that does not work, I expect the problem is a corrupt data disk (other disks work ok on the drive).
    – Billy Moon
    Apr 1, 2013 at 19:24
  • Any dmesg's after dd? Would be very useful to know if there is or is not any.
    – Sampo Sarrala
    Apr 2, 2013 at 0:04

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I would try using sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.img where /dev/cdrom is your drive device path. This would create an image of the disc, trying to recover data in the process. Then you may try testdisk if the image that dd produces is garbage.

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  • Unfortunately there is no /dev/cdrom... maybe it is another issue. The cd drive does work fine, auto-mounting other CDs into the /media directory. I checked the device, which was /dev/sr0 - and used that instead. I tried dd if=/dev/sr0 of=cd.dat with no joy - actually dd just hangs, and no data is copied to cd.dat. I tried this command on a working CD, after un-mounting it, and the command works. Thanks for your help... any more ideas?
    – Billy Moon
    Apr 1, 2013 at 21:53
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It might not be under /dev/cdrom because it isn't mounted as one.

Do this: remove the mini-disc and run mount, put it in and run mount again. Any difference? If there is, you might be in luck. If that is the case, you should be able to dd the heck out of it.

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