Take a photo of the media
Use...
Use Read-only mounting and Writeblocker when possible
Use Guymanger to image
You can do multiple disks at once
- DVD drives are named TEAC DV_W28S-B
- Use Linux raw dd image
- Split image files over 2046 MiB
- Use a consistent or descriptive filename
- Only md5 checksums are necessary
- Verifying the image is a good idea
Try to mount the disk
Eject the disk first to avoid confusion and mounting the actual disk!
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