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Software to Copy a scratched CD/DVD/Blueray to an ISO file

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I have some optical discs that are sorely scratched. I've cleaned the discs, but they still have trouble reading. When trying ddrescue to backup the discs, it will read up to X bytes, and fail on all bytes after that (because the drive needs to be ejected before it can resume from the read failure).

Is there any good software specifically for the purpose of copying scratched optical discs to an image file?

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answered 3 Years ago iething · Accepted Answer

safecopy

sudo apt-get install safecopy

safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data
as possible from a problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like
floppy drives, hard disk partitions, CDs, tape devices, ..., where
other tools like dd would fail due to I/O errors.

Safecopy includes a low level IO layer to read CDROM disks in raw
mode, and issue device resets and other helpful low level operations
on a number of other device classes.

http://safecopy.sourceforge.net