I learn an old technique to the way to recover damaged or scratched disks
with some lost of knowledge . Here we cover some special technique of the way to create a full working CD from the scratched one.
First some tools are going to be needed:
1. Alcohol 120%
2. UltraISO
3. Windows XP/2000 (not tested on 95/98/me)
3. Small piece of cotton
4. cleaner paper
5. Finally, oil for cooking.
First step - preparing the CD
Get the cotton and drop some water, start cleaning vertically the surface of CD.
Do it 3 times and dry the water with a bit of cleaner paper. With a replacement piece
of cotton, drop some oil for cooking and begin to wet the surface such as you are
washing the CD with the oil. Dry carefully now. Some particles of oil will stay the
micro surface of the scratch. It's okay. Seems the oil helps the laser of the CD/DVD driver
to read the surface again. Sure this may work with small unreadable scratchs - some hard
scratches loose parts of the surface of the CD where we've data and it's lost forever.
But if it's loosed try anyway. With this tip 80% of the tiny scratched CD's might be
recovered.
Second Step - testing the CD
With Alcohol 120% make an ISO - image making wizard - and lets see if the app can
read the loosed surface. In my case Alcohol 120% had recovered 60% of the info .
This is not enough. Have tryed other appz, they are doing not recover all the info . But the
CD/DVD driver laser CAN recover all data during this case. the info remains there, what we do?
Third step - making the new CD
With the most copy system of windows explorer you'll roll in the hay . Just create one folder
with an equivalent name of the CD label for future burn reference, and replica the CD content
to the folder. When the CD copy process find the scratch, in majority of the cases, it's
slow down the reading and can recover ALL loosed data.If not, it just tell you there's
an unreadable sector. during this case your CD is lost. But it isn't my case, finally
windows explorer got all the info from the scratch and made a replica within the folder.
with the ultraISO, wrote the first CD label, drop the content of the folder and
save as Iso. you'll Test the new CD just mounting the iso within the Alcohol 120%. In my
case i did ISO of the 2 discs from MAX PAYNE 2 and tested installing from the mounted
ISO. Works sort of a charm. I got the 4 mb lost again. So, I even have burned the CD and now i
have a working copy from the scratched one.
Sounds too bizzarre, but works. Course you'll jump the cleaning process and check out to repeat
the content with Windows explorer. But in my case didn't work without oil...
with some lost of knowledge . Here we cover some special technique of the way to create a full working CD from the scratched one.
First some tools are going to be needed:
1. Alcohol 120%
2. UltraISO
3. Windows XP/2000 (not tested on 95/98/me)
3. Small piece of cotton
4. cleaner paper
5. Finally, oil for cooking.
First step - preparing the CD
Get the cotton and drop some water, start cleaning vertically the surface of CD.
Do it 3 times and dry the water with a bit of cleaner paper. With a replacement piece
of cotton, drop some oil for cooking and begin to wet the surface such as you are
washing the CD with the oil. Dry carefully now. Some particles of oil will stay the
micro surface of the scratch. It's okay. Seems the oil helps the laser of the CD/DVD driver
to read the surface again. Sure this may work with small unreadable scratchs - some hard
scratches loose parts of the surface of the CD where we've data and it's lost forever.
But if it's loosed try anyway. With this tip 80% of the tiny scratched CD's might be
recovered.
Second Step - testing the CD
With Alcohol 120% make an ISO - image making wizard - and lets see if the app can
read the loosed surface. In my case Alcohol 120% had recovered 60% of the info .
This is not enough. Have tryed other appz, they are doing not recover all the info . But the
CD/DVD driver laser CAN recover all data during this case. the info remains there, what we do?
Third step - making the new CD
With the most copy system of windows explorer you'll roll in the hay . Just create one folder
with an equivalent name of the CD label for future burn reference, and replica the CD content
to the folder. When the CD copy process find the scratch, in majority of the cases, it's
slow down the reading and can recover ALL loosed data.If not, it just tell you there's
an unreadable sector. during this case your CD is lost. But it isn't my case, finally
windows explorer got all the info from the scratch and made a replica within the folder.
with the ultraISO, wrote the first CD label, drop the content of the folder and
save as Iso. you'll Test the new CD just mounting the iso within the Alcohol 120%. In my
case i did ISO of the 2 discs from MAX PAYNE 2 and tested installing from the mounted
ISO. Works sort of a charm. I got the 4 mb lost again. So, I even have burned the CD and now i
have a working copy from the scratched one.
Sounds too bizzarre, but works. Course you'll jump the cleaning process and check out to repeat
the content with Windows explorer. But in my case didn't work without oil...
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