Putting error correction data on the medium

dvdisaster Version 0.72.6 / 0.79 (devel-3) | To the Internet version

Contents
News
Overview
Howtos
· | The big picture
· | Scanning media for errors
· | Putting error correction data on a separate file
· | Putting error correction data on the medium
| - | Decision help
| - | Basic settings
| - | Creating the medium
| - | Advanced settings
· | Recovering media images
· | Getting information about images and error correction data
· | Testing image compatibility
· | Dialogs and buttons
Download
Questions and Answers
Bug reporting
Augmenting images with error correction data |
Overview
### Putting error correction data directly onto the medium
Task | Error correction data is stored along with the user data on the same medium.
| Note: This page describes how an ISO image is augmented with error correction data prior to writing it onto a medium. There is also a method for creating and placing error correction data into a separate file. Would you like help on deciding between these two methods?
Required:
| an authoring ("burning") software capable of creating ISO images the medium which is to be augmented with error correction data has not yet been written *) at least 20% of free space on the medium which is to be created
What to do:
| 1. Configure basic settings 2a. Create an ISO image, 2b. augment it with error correction data, 2c. and write it to a medium.
Configuring basic settings...
*)An already written medium can not be augmented with error correction data.

Copyright 2004-2014 Carsten Gnörlich. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.