Disk Recovery...

[skip2mylou]

hello everyone, i would like to recover some files from my corrupt disks (CD[-RW], DVD[+RW], floppy), i tried BadCopy Pro, but its not that sufficient, any suggestions? thanks

[Soopafresh]

Brasso Metal Polish

http://chris.carline.org/000391.html

[skip2mylou]

thank u ill try it out

[skip2mylou]

wait its some kind of liquid, im looking for a comp proggie, that can recover data from my old disks... thanks

[thecoalman]

wait its some kind of liquid, im looking for a comp proggie, that can recover data from my old disks... thanks

The suggestion above is for scratched discs. If you polish them removing the scratches you can read them again. There's more here and other suggestions for disc recovery: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=257374

[skip2mylou]

cool, thanks mr. pimp

[jollyjohn]

G'day
Try IsoBuster. It will show all data that has been written on CD's and will let you extract it to the HD.
Let us know how you go.
Good luck
John

[skip2mylou]

i tried isoB, in fact that was my first choice, it never let me down b4, but its telling me that it cant read a sector, thats why i need a recovery app, because i have a feeling that this disk is corrupt, and not scratched... but thanks tho

p.s. this is a p$x game im trying to back up, in p$, it plays fine (i havent tried it with an emulator), and i can easily create images of my other disks using Alcohol120%, and back them up that way, but it is just this disk that is giving me problems, and its not even the whole disk. its like 7 *.xa files, which each other app is tellin me that it cant read the sectors. ive copied and pasted the other files no problem to my comp, its just those 7... but hey things seem to be getting better. i have been using BadCopy 3.7 and in the last 10 hrs of recovery, i have finished "recovering" 2 files, thats only 5 more , however on one of the files, it says 38.1% of the data was lost. i dont know wat good that does me, thats almost half the data...kinda, but at least im getting there and i wont find out the results until i create an image and try it out. nevertheless, i really appreciate ur great input, and it looks like there is a light at the end of the tunnel, at least for now. i also found this thanks to the many links throughout the many posts of Da Carbon Pimp. its a file recovery proggie by PC INSPECTOR, and my fave, its freeware , so ima try it out. thanks again , and please keep posting more ideas

[skip2mylou]

i used toothpaste, i figured wat the heck, nothing really happened, but then again like i said, there werent really any scratches, but at least now i have exprience...
anyways, the PC INSPECTOR thing wass poop, it kept giving me ERRORs, but hey, easy come, easy go
anyways, ran it thru IsoB again, and this is the error i get:

but it then asks me to either RETRY, IGNORE, or QUIT, with the CHECK option of IGNORE ALL. i was thinking (at the moment), if i hit ignore all, would it simply extract it and not worry about the read error, or will it not extract it at all and just skip it? anyways, i checked the box, and its "extracting" during this post... so ill c wat happens, any other posts, advice, anything would be greatly appreciated... thanks

[guns1inger]

It will extract what it can. If what you have on the disk is an executable, then you can pretty much kiss it goodbye. If the disk is corrupted, as you believe, and not scratched, then chances are even if you could get the data off it, it would be worthless.

[skip2mylou]

so basically when i click ignore all to extract data off a corrupt disk, it is worthless... i hear u, that sounds logical, although the truth hrt, but im still lookin for other methods of recovery... thanks tho