Comments on: How To Read Scratched CDs or DVDs In Windows

By: Mian Farhan

Mian Farhan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:38:26 +0000

Very good information.

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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:11:08 +0000

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By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:15:58 +0000

http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/cd-recovery.html

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:28:46 +0000

Have you tried this method? http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-repair-and-recover-data-from-damaged-cds-or-dvds/

By: Zymos

Zymos — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:41:30 +0000

I don’t think there could possibly be any difference using this software and playing a movie in terms of wear on the laser or “lens” (which does not come in contact with anything).

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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:15:50 +0000

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By: Win7Guru

Win7Guru — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:46:17 +0000

I have used this program, but it didn’t help me recover my Vista Home Premium OEM disc. Any suggestions. I have the disc and it has what appears to be a crack shaped like a branch. Please help me, as Windows 7 will expire soon.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:00:53 +0000

You can in fact overheat and burn out your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM’s laser or motor with this sort of severe disc-reading application.

EAC has an option to let the drive cool for 15 mins after each hour’s reading.

By: Gaurav Kumar

Gaurav Kumar — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:58:54 +0000

Frankly speaking, I left damaged discs on their own after compromising a ROM. I now often backup DVDs with good quality ones. But I remember for sure leaving the system for many hours so that more and more data can be recovered. The more hours you spend and the slowest mode you select will shorten the life of your ROM.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:45:20 +0000

How does this do on audio CDs? I tend to recover badly frisbeed music CDs using either cdparanoia (the standard audio CD reader on Linux) or Exact Audio Copy (a Windows app that also works perfectly in Wine on Linux). Each of these has discs it will read that the other can’t quite cope with; a third tool for the armory would be most useful.

(EAC is the Chuck Norris of audio CD rippers. I gave it a badly decayed band demo on CD-R, from back when CD-Rs were blue and decayed in a few years. It took seventeen hours, but I think it missed one second of the six-song disc.)

By: Gaurav Kumar

Gaurav Kumar — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:22:07 +0000

When the disc has scratches and the software forces the ROM to read those particular data bytes, the lens keeps on making efforts to try and read them. As a result the scratched surface renders the lens unusable. Even my ROM was working fine after first run. It stopped working after several runs of this software.
The only thing that I can suggest is that if you have a movie or something on a scratched disc, then try this s/w with mode set as the fastest so that it can skip those bytes which are unreadable and still read readable bytes f the same file. As a result only a few frames of the movie won’t be available.

By: Karl L. Gechlik

Karl L. Gechlik — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:05:04 +0000

How is that even possible? How do you know your lens was destroyed? I used this application on 26 disks yesterday with no issue.

I would like to contact the author but I would need more info from you please email me at karl at asktheadmin dot com

By: Gaurav Kumar

Gaurav Kumar — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:44:10 +0000

Hi
Nice but use it with CAUTION. I used it to recover data and the next thing I new was my DVD-ROM’s lens was destroyed and was rendered useless.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:38:01 +0000

Excellent, i have a few old games, and some apps hat i need, hopefully this can help, and if not, im off on ebay to find a cheap copy.

By: JX

JX — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:40:22 +0000

For recovering data from scratched DVD+/-R discs, I tend to use either ISObuster or ISOpuzzle

http://www.isobuster.com/

http://www.geocities.com/marsoupilamis/DocEnglish.htm

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:09:30 +0000

Very NICE!!