DVDisaster - extra safety for your CD/DVDs

[TadW]

Are you like me and worry the loss of tons of CDs and DVDs with your holiday pictures and movies? I know the dvdisaster project is still not the perfect solution, but is should give you at least some extra safety:

the dvdisaster project provides a margin of safety against data loss on CD and DVD media caused by scratches or aging.

* dvdisaster creates error correction codes to compensate read errors which are not correctable in the CD/DVD drive.
* dvdisaster tries to read as much data as possible from defective media. Afterwards unreadable sectors are recovered using the previously created error correction code. The maximum error correction capacity is user-selectable.

If you create the error correction code file in time and keep it at a safe place, you have a good chance of recovering the medium contents from typical read errors and to transfer your complete data onto a new medium.