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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on April 16, 2006, 03:38:37 pm

Title: Degraded CD Data Recovery Program?
Post by: Sandwich on April 16, 2006, 03:38:37 pm

I've got some movies on old CD-R's that have become unreadable by Windows. However, when I try to play the movie file with Media Player Classic, it will pause and grind away, trying and retrying to read a sector, and eventually it will succeed and continue playing. Ergo, Windows gives up to easily.

So, does anyone know of a decent (free) program that will do it's darndest to recover data off a CD?

Title: Re: Degraded CD Data Recovery Program?
Post by: karajorma on April 16, 2006, 03:46:20 pm

I saw a link to ISOBuster (http://www.isobuster.com/) elsewhere on the web that says that the full version can do that. Don't know if the freeware version can though.

Title: Re: Degraded CD Data Recovery Program?
Post by: Backslash on April 16, 2006, 08:23:27 pm

The freeware version does (or at least it used to).  Very handy.
As far as I understand, the full version is more for advanced DVD recovery and stuff.

Title: Re: Degraded CD Data Recovery Program?
Post by: Sandwich on April 17, 2006, 03:38:41 am

Very cool, thanks! I ended up warezing (can that be verbed?) something called BadCopy Pro before you posted that... it worked nicely, but I'd rather stay legit and use the free stuff. ;)