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Title: Retreving data
Post by: tigers_gonads on 23 December 2012, 11:18:21

.................  from damaged / badly worn dvd's or cd's

Is there a piece of software out there that will help me retreve data from various discs that have been sat in rack for 10 to 15 years.
These discs have photographs on which vary from a few kbits upto 4 or 5 megabites.

All the discs have been cleaned to the best of my ability but refuse to boot from the drive.
I except that I won't be able to retreve data off the physically damaged sectors  :(

Title: Re: Retreving data
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 23 December 2012, 11:57:25

http://mp3.about.com/od/cdanddvdsoftware/tp/Top-5-Free-File-Recovery-software-Programs.htm (http://mp3.about.com/od/cdanddvdsoftware/tp/Top-5-Free-File-Recovery-software-Programs.htm)
 
may help :y

Title: Re: Retreving data
Post by: tigers_gonads on 23 December 2012, 15:44:24

Cheers cem, i'll give it a try over christmas and see what happens  :y :y

Title: Re: Retreving data
Post by: tigers_gonads on 23 December 2012, 23:12:33

Don't work cem  :(
It won't reconise the cd / dvd  :'(

Anybody else help on this ?

Title: Re: Retreving data
Post by: Martian on 24 December 2012, 01:00:25

Some drives work better at reading discs than others do, possibly try another drive.
As far as data recovery goes, you really want a drive that can read in RAW mode.

Title: Re: Retreving data
Post by: Plomien on 24 December 2012, 09:32:15

If they are scratched try using some car scratch polish sorted out the mario kart cd for the wii :y

Title: Re: Retreving data
Post by: tigers_gonads on 24 December 2012, 10:53:54

Quote from: Martian on 24 December 2012, 01:00:25

Some drives work better at reading discs than others do, possibly try another drive.
As far as data recovery goes, you really want a drive that can read in RAW mode.

My lappy is a toshiba satellite  p200 1fc
Will the dvd drive read in RAW ?
If so, how  :-[

Title: Re: Retreving data
Post by: tigers_gonads on 24 December 2012, 10:54:25

Quote from: Plomien on 24 December 2012, 09:32:15

If they are scratched try using some car scratch polish sorted out the mario kart cd for the wii :y

I'll give it a go  :y

Title: Re: Retreving data
Post by: Martian on 24 December 2012, 16:58:20

Quote from: tigers_gonads on 24 December 2012, 10:53:54

My lappy is a toshiba satellite  p200 1fc
Will the dvd drive read in RAW ?
If so, how  :-[

More than likely a MatSHITa drive (yes, that really is the manufacturer name), so no.

Google for copying Xbox 360/Wii games, and any drive they recommend for that will read in RAW mode.

Title: Re: Retreving data
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 24 December 2012, 18:20:04

Tıgger lappy drivers are bad candidates for those operations.. I recommend trying this in a pc with a good quality drive.. and several other softwares..

Title: Re: Retreving data
Post by: tigers_gonads on 25 December 2012, 12:22:17

The lads got a old desktop upstairs with a dvd drive.
I'll have a play tomorrow

Cheers  :)