F
Fishy
I burned a CD. There's a pretty visible scratch on the underside,
starting at the center hole and going out about an inch. My CD drive
will not recognize it. I want the data off of it.
I tried some gunk I bought at Frye's -- a few drops on the scratch,
rub it in "until the scratch disappears", let it dry. Well, the
scratch never completely disappeared.
I'm using XP Home SP 1. The CD came from an old HP Pavillion with a
fried motherboard. It's a Mitsumi CR-4804TE. The driver is
apparently the one that comes with XP:
cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
I've contacted the tech departments at both of my universities and
they say they have no tools to recover data from a scratched CD. I'm
doubtful about their veracity. They advised me to go to Frye's and
buy some gunk. Which I already did.
How can I read the data off that CD?
<*((((><{
(e-mail address removed)
starting at the center hole and going out about an inch. My CD drive
will not recognize it. I want the data off of it.
I tried some gunk I bought at Frye's -- a few drops on the scratch,
rub it in "until the scratch disappears", let it dry. Well, the
scratch never completely disappeared.
I'm using XP Home SP 1. The CD came from an old HP Pavillion with a
fried motherboard. It's a Mitsumi CR-4804TE. The driver is
apparently the one that comes with XP:
cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
I've contacted the tech departments at both of my universities and
they say they have no tools to recover data from a scratched CD. I'm
doubtful about their veracity. They advised me to go to Frye's and
buy some gunk. Which I already did.
How can I read the data off that CD?
<*((((><{
(e-mail address removed)