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Bob Vickers

Are There ways to retreived data from a damaged (Some Rubbed and minor
scratched places) CD.

Any Help or Suggestions Would be greatly appreciated.

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TIA
 
Bob said:
Are There ways to retreived data from a damaged (Some Rubbed and minor
scratched places) CD.

Any Help or Suggestions Would be greatly appreciated.

For email change .net to .com
TIA
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Hey Bob;

Can't help directly but here's a resource that's been helpful in the
past: http://www.cdrfaq.org/.

-Craig
 
Are There ways to retreived data from a damaged (Some Rubbed and minor
scratched places) CD.
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First, try different drives. (Ask your friends.) Some drives are very
good on reading defect CD/DVD disks (Plextor PX-740A, BenQ DW1640) while
others have severe problems with scratched disks (most newer NEC and
Sony drives, for instance).

If none reads the whole disk, use the already suggested Unstoppable
Copier on all these drives. You may find that different drives extract
different parts of the disk.

*After* you saved the already extracted data, use CD/DVD repair kits
to polish and smooth the scratched surface. Be *very* carefully and
maybe ask for help, because you may destroy the disk *beyond repair*
this way.

Try again with all the drives above. (At least with those, which showed
the best error correction on first read.)

BeAr
 
First, try different drives. (Ask your friends.) Some drives are very
good on reading defect CD/DVD disks (Plextor PX-740A, BenQ DW1640) while
others have severe problems with scratched disks (most newer NEC and
Sony drives, for instance).

If none reads the whole disk, use the already suggested Unstoppable
Copier on all these drives. You may find that different drives extract
different parts of the disk.

*After* you saved the already extracted data, use CD/DVD repair kits
to polish and smooth the scratched surface. Be *very* carefully and
maybe ask for help, because you may destroy the disk *beyond repair*
this way.

Try again with all the drives above. (At least with those, which showed
the best error correction on first read.)

BeAr
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Do NOT polish or smooth the upper (printed) surface of the disk. You
will remove the reflective layer and destroy the disk totally.
 
[piggybacking]

Some people have had luck with toothpaste, some with Brasso.
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Jewellers' rouge is the best compound. Toothpaste is very coarse.
Brasso is between the two,
 
Thanks To All That Have Made Suggestions.
I Have Tried The ISO Buster and The Toothpaste, I Am Going To Try The
Unstopable Copier Next. I Still havent Got some of the files But was able to
get a lot.
Thanks All.
Bob
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Jewellers' rouge is the best compound. Toothpaste is very coarse.
Brasso is between the two,
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I've never used either one, I'm just reporting what I've heard. I'll
add rouge to the list of things that I've been told works.
 
Do NOT polish or smooth the upper (printed) surface of the disk. You
will remove the reflective layer and destroy the disk totally.
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Yes!! Thank you for this comment. I forgot to mention that.

BeAr
 
I've never used either one, I'm just reporting what I've heard. I'll
add rouge to the list of things that I've been told works.
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That's jewellers' rouge, not the sort that m'lady daubs on her cheeks
so she looks rosy.
 
ISOBuster
http://www.isobuster.com/
http://www.smart-projects.net/recover.htm?http://www.
smart-projects.net/freeshareware.htm or

Unstoppable Copier
http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html
should do what you want.
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I have not heard of the Unstoppable Copier before but it sounds
interesting.

Exact Audio Copy (freeware) used to be my favorite for this sort
of thing. ISTR that it was designed to retry and keep retrying to
read a particular part of the CD until it suceeded or until it hit
a preset number.

WIMPS but not very intuitive though.

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
 
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