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Help me Make a copy of a scratched CD with important DATA!

Oct 27, 2006 10:25AM PDT

I have a CD-R with important Research Data Backups, that has got some fine scratches. My CDROM Always was very finicky when playing scratched CD's it would read the CD for a long time and then ignore the disk.

My cousins Sony CD writer Recognises the disks. I tried doing a disk copy with verification but the verification process detected certain errors.

So I Made a data CD and just burned the files individually to the Data CD. I made the DAta CD on a CD-RW. This time all files copied without a hitch and the verification process detected no errors.

But the new Cd-RW Data CD doesn't play on my CDROM as well. Its better than the original in that the drive recognises the CD, but it takes a long time. And files don't open at all.

Now the CDRW is not scratched, so how come it doesn't work, even though burn verification detected no errors?

Will it work if I copy the files to my cousins hard disk and then burn a data disc. Both of us use Windows XP and we don't have any Zip drives or anything so I am totally reliant on his CD Writer!

Does anybody have any ideas that I can try!
Thanks in advance!

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Dont Worry
Oct 28, 2006 11:39PM PDT

I went to Pakistan once ( I am a Paki) and as 99% of the media is pirated there, I went to a shop and I saw that any CDs etc that were scratched were 'cleaned up'. The guy had a little motor with a brush like thing on it. He ran the cd over them and the scratches were one. Took a few seconds and the CD , DVD played perfectly. If you can get something like that then you are in luck. I can give you more info as your case is important.
Thank YOu

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It's likely they used InCD or DLA or DirectCD or...
Oct 29, 2006 12:18AM PDT

Similar recording software. ISOBUSTER can read the files if your drive reads CDRW media. OLD CDROM DRIVES have issues with CDRW media and doubly so with those new hi-speed CDRW media.

Isn't about time you get a good drive?

Bob

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oh yeah one more thing
Oct 29, 2006 2:15AM PST

ya i found a program some time ago which copies all the information that it can from damaged cds
tell e i might search for it