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.
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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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