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Bill Bettridge (Billb)
| | Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 03:35 pm: | 
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Does anyone have a good link or suggestion for some Freeware for CD data recovery?
Plenty of downloadable freeware on the web, but so far no fully functional versions to be found.
Yes - I'm too cheap to buy on to get some pictures off one lousy fried CDR
Thanks!
Bill |
Tom Rowe
| | Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 09:34 am: |
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I've seen in some stores a tool for repairing CD's and DVD's, for about $15 I think. I've never tried it, but I have a friend who bought one for her daughter. I'll try to remember to ask her how well it works. |
John Davies
| | Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 11:47 am: |
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This link may help, though it is aimed at recovering lost images from a flash memory card (digital camera). You may learn something of value.
"Building the Ultimate Photo Recovery Kit":
http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2002-01/2002_01_23_cf_recovery.html
Good luck, and _always_ duplicate your data storage. I do daily compressed backups to a second hard drive using Acronis True Image 6.0 (which copies EVERY file on your root drive), and regular data backups to CD-RW using MS Backup.
Acronis True Image 6.0:
http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/
Good luck. |
muskyman
| | Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 12:38 pm: |
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i have a memorex cd cdr cdrw dvd dvdrw disc repair tool
sounds fancy but it is just a fancy rotery polisher that removes scratches, it uses automotive polish as the polishing medium. old #7 by the smell of it. it cost about $25
it has worked wonders on scratched discs that have given the "cyclic redundancie error" message |
Todd W. McLain (Ganryu)
| | Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 09:26 pm: |
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Tooth paste will also work wonders for polishing out scratches on CD's. |
Dean Chrismon (Chrismonda)
| | Posted on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 11:33 am: |
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And will help reduce the number of cavities on your CD's... |
Bill Bettridge (Billb)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 02:02 pm: |
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Thanks guys - the problem is not a physically damaged disk - just a glitch in how it was written to apparently. The repair utilities that I've downloaded find the files easily enough (1300+ files), but won't allow me to move them to my HD without paying for the software.
Any suggestions or links appreciated.
Bill |
Andrew Clarke (Aclarke)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 11:54 am: |
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I used Ontrack EasyRecovery Personal Lite Edition, but it only allows you to retrieve 25 files at a time unless you want to pay.
I actually paid for something when I had a similar problem. Unfortunately I don't remember what I paid for or where the key is! Grrr...
Anyways, the second time I had this sort of problem, Ontrack worked fine for me. |
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