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Delaminating CDs best way to recover, copy or retreive the DATA?
I have 4ea Digital Research Technologies 24x CD Recordable Media
that I had stored in a cool, dry,dark safe with several other CD's and DVD's. All of the different media were stored on the same spindle. While rearranging the items in my safe I looked through the disks and noticed 2 of the above CD had penny to nickel sized areas of (for want of a better word) delaminating where the silver was peeling off. 2 of the other CD's has areas where the delaminating was starting. I know that the information that was on the peeled off areas is gone for good. And I'm now going to have to listen to my friend crow about buying cheap media. My question is, is there an easy way to copy the CD's to my hard drive and not have to address each time tells me something is wrong and asks what do I want to do? If it is bad I don't want it, but I do want to copy all (and only) the good and intact info. The CD with the missing penny sized area will not even read. And one other CD that has a little damage around the outer edge will not read either, which seems odd for so little damage. Is there a program of some kind that might help? I'd like to recover the data as I said, but it is not a matter of life or death. But it would be convenient if I were able to remedy the problem. I don't know if it matters but all the files are text documents of some kind. When I store the important life or death information on CD's\DVD\s, I copy it to two different brands of DVD's and store them in safes at 2 different addresses. Can anyone give me any more suggestions on how to protect data that is backed up or what is the best media? I had thought that the CD's and DVD's properly cared for would last 100 years or at least my life time. I guess not. I've probably burned at least a thousand DVDs, and I've had maybe a total of 10 go bad spontaneously, that gives me about a 1% failure rate. That may seem good on the surface, but I'm guessing most industries have a better rate then that ( I'm guessing here, I don't know jack about industry). And while 1% may not be bad, it is if the 1% of Disc failures hold your critical data. Any advice - well most advice, - would be greatly appreciated. Thanks RC |
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Delaminating CDs best way to recover, copy or retreive the DATA?
Ron Cliburn wrote:
I have 4ea Digital Research Technologies 24x CD Recordable Media that I had stored in a cool, dry,dark safe with several other CD's and DVD's. All of the different media were stored on the same spindle. While rearranging the items in my safe I looked through the disks and noticed 2 of the above CD had penny to nickel sized areas of (for want of a better word) delaminating where the silver was peeling off. 2 of the other CD's has areas where the delaminating was starting. I know that the information that was on the peeled off areas is gone for good. And I'm now going to have to listen to my friend crow about buying cheap media. My question is, is there an easy way to copy the CD's to my hard drive and not have to address each time tells me something is wrong and asks what do I want to do? If it is bad I don't want it, but I do want to copy all (and only) the good and intact info. The CD with the missing penny sized area will not even read. And one other CD that has a little damage around the outer edge will not read either, which seems odd for so little damage. Is there a program of some kind that might help? I'd like to recover the data as I said, but it is not a matter of life or death. But it would be convenient if I were able to remedy the problem. I don't know if it matters but all the files are text documents of some kind. When I store the important life or death information on CD's\DVD\s, I copy it to two different brands of DVD's and store them in safes at 2 different addresses. Can anyone give me any more suggestions on how to protect data that is backed up or what is the best media? I had thought that the CD's and DVD's properly cared for would last 100 years or at least my life time. I guess not. I've probably burned at least a thousand DVDs, and I've had maybe a total of 10 go bad spontaneously, that gives me about a 1% failure rate. That may seem good on the surface, but I'm guessing most industries have a better rate then that ( I'm guessing here, I don't know jack about industry). And while 1% may not be bad, it is if the 1% of Disc failures hold your critical data. Any advice - well most advice, - would be greatly appreciated. Thanks RC My first concern, would be whether the media still has mechanical integrity. You don't want to try media, where the polycarbonate is cracked. If a disc spins at high speed, it can damage the drive when it flies apart. As long as it looks like it is physically still sound, you could try it. I see a program here, but don't know anything about it. It is possible there are other leads on data recovery tools in some Wikipedia article. http://www.isobuster.com/isobusterdownload.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobuster Paul |
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Delaminating CDs best way to recover, copy or retreive the DATA?
My first concern, would be whether the media still has mechanical integrity. You don't want to try media, where the polycarbonate is cracked. If a disc spins at high speed, it can damage the drive when it flies apart. As long as it looks like it is physically still sound, you could try it. Thanks Paul, an excellent point. I use Nero v8.0 and it has a program in it that will allow you to set the speed of the Disc from 1x up to whatever. I don't know how to use it, but now seems like a great time to find out. I appreciate the polite and helpful response. Different then many I see posted. Thanks RC |
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Delaminating CDs best way to recover, copy or retreive the DATA?
"Ron Cliburn" wrote in message ... I have 4ea Digital Research Technologies 24x CD Recordable Media that I had stored in a cool, dry,dark safe with several other CD's and DVD's. All of the different media were stored on the same spindle. While rearranging the items in my safe I looked through the disks and noticed 2 of the above CD had penny to nickel sized areas of (for want of a better word) delaminating where the silver was peeling off. 2 of the other CD's has areas where the delaminating was starting. I know that the information that was on the peeled off areas is gone for good. And I'm now going to have to listen to my friend crow about buying cheap media. My question is, is there an easy way to copy the CD's to my hard drive and not have to address each time tells me something is wrong and asks what do I want to do? If it is bad I don't want it, but I do want to copy all (and only) the good and intact info. The CD with the missing penny sized area will not even read. And one other CD that has a little damage around the outer edge will not read either, which seems odd for so little damage. Is there a program of some kind that might help? I'd like to recover the data as I said, but it is not a matter of life or death. But it would be convenient if I were able to remedy the problem. I don't know if it matters but all the files are text documents of some kind. When I store the important life or death information on CD's\DVD\s, I copy it to two different brands of DVD's and store them in safes at 2 different addresses. Can anyone give me any more suggestions on how to protect data that is backed up or what is the best media? I had thought that the CD's and DVD's properly cared for would last 100 years or at least my life time. I guess not. I've probably burned at least a thousand DVDs, and I've had maybe a total of 10 go bad spontaneously, that gives me about a 1% failure rate. That may seem good on the surface, but I'm guessing most industries have a better rate then that ( I'm guessing here, I don't know jack about industry). And while 1% may not be bad, it is if the 1% of Disc failures hold your critical data. Any advice - well most advice, - would be greatly appreciated. Thanks RC ::::in reference to your last post:::::: Problem is that NERO is referring to 'write' speed not spin up or read speed. I have never seen yet, a disk with lamination peeling being 'read' by anything. I lost a whole library of time life albums that I created in the CDR infancy days. |
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Delaminating CDs best way to recover, copy or retreive the DATA?
"Ron Cliburn" wrote in message ... My first concern, would be whether the media still has mechanical integrity. You don't want to try media, where the polycarbonate is cracked. If a disc spins at high speed, it can damage the drive when it flies apart. As long as it looks like it is physically still sound, you could try it. Thanks Paul, an excellent point. I use Nero v8.0 and it has a program in it that will allow you to set the speed of the Disc from 1x up to whatever. I don't know how to use it, but now seems like a great time to find out. I appreciate the polite and helpful response. Different then many I see posted. Thanks RC I have used Isobuster 2 or 3 times when I was in dire need and found it to be very good. Regards, Rene |
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