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Q: Can I bit copy an optical disk that won't mount?
I have a Mac Pro 1,1 with 2 optical drives in it. I have an 8 year old DVD-R (a playable DVD-video) which won't mount in either optical drive - Mac says it is in a format it can't recognise. Putting it in a DVD player simply says "Can't play disk".
Is there any way I can bit-copy it to try various recovery tools to extract the content? Hopefully it's just the disk header that's corrupted, if I can bit copy it there is a good chance I can recover the contents as it was all linearly written in one go.
Thanks.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2 x 2.66 Dual Core
Posted on May 28, 2016 6:37 PM