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		boltzmann-brain 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Demystifying DVDs if it's just "some" bad sectors, maybe you can just bruteforce guessing what was in those sectors.

Sesse__ 11 days ago [–]

With a sector being 2048 bytes, it would seem optimistic to try 2^2048 different possibilities in case some of them contain what looks like good data.

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