[Techtalk] Input/Output Error when reading from CD-RW

[Hamster]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 03:12:19 -0500
TechChiq <techchiq at hotpop.com> wrote:

> I put some rather irreplaceable data (including some photos I took of a 
> double rainbow) on a CD-RW using K3b. Well, I am not 100% linux as I just 
> reinstalled everything and repartitioned (thank you to folks replies on 
> how to do that, I think I got it right :) so Windows is no longer on my 
> system. Now, the problem is, I insert the CD-RW with my data on it, and 
> would you know, I can see the files ok, but neither in Konqueror nor even 
> as root in a term I can't copy those files to my user home directory. I 
> keep getting an error message about an input/output error.
> 

Purely by accident while looking for info about the ISO9660 standard, I came
across the following site. It seems to offer software for recovering info
off cds in much the same state as yours.

Perhaps its worth a look?

http://www.cdroller.com/

Hamster