[gmx-users] Recover corrupted files from DVD

[Nuno Ricardo Loureiro Ferreira]

Hi

I always do a check sum. It's a rule of thumb here.
Erik, your answer was in fact what I was expecting. Thank you.
N.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andrea spitaleri" <spitaleri.andrea at hsr.it>
To: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Recover corrupted files from DVD


> Hi,
> anyway a suggestion: run always md5um on the trr files before/after the
burn ...
>
> you never know
>
> andrea
>
> Erik Marklund wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:39 +0100, Nuno Ricardo Loureiro Ferreira wrote:
> >> Hi *
> >>
> >> I burned several DVD's during a project (and deleted the original
> >> files after having verified the saved data, no disk space ;-), and
> >> today I just realized that I'm having problems getting the data from
> >> one of them, and unfortunely corresponds more or less to the middle of
> >> a certain trajectory.
> >>
> >> Do you guys think that running again that missing part of the traj
> >> from the last saved .trr, will give me the same results?
> >> It was run on a box that I no longer have access. Do the trajs done in
> >> different boxes give different (or slightly different) trajs using the
> >> same gmx version?
> >
> > Sorry, but different computers may introduce different numerical error,
> > producing different trajectories. I would not recommend it. Of course,
> > you could try and see whether the last frames of the "patch" trajectory
> > are identical to the corresponding frames of the old broken trajectory,
> > but I wouldn't bet on it.
> >
> > /Erik
> >
> >>
> >> BTW, do you recommend any soft that I can use to try to try to recover
> >> files froma CD/DVD (iso9600)?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Nuno
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