Cd-rom recovering (not sure where to post) CD is GOOD THOUGH

[dinkob]

Back in the day I got my hands on Acer 2410 CDRW burner that was at the time I think very good burner. My computer was Pentium 2 and I was somewhat happy with the setup I had when the current PC-s Being sold I think were at Pentium 3 level.

Nevertheless, I had a dual boot between Windows 98 and Windows 2000.

Even then something strange was happening. I was using Nero as a burning software and backed several of my Audio CD-s very dear to me (*so called limited edition Dance Mix CD-s such as Studio 33, Deep Dance, Magic Dance Xplosion*).

If I were to do this backup through Nero (all files were encoded to mp3 using 192 kbps bitrate, for one particular CD (Studio 33 23rd story, probably the best release) I used 384 kbps) by recording A standard CD-ROM Windows 2000 and Windows 98 would both successfully record it (write disc successfull message) and copy it BACK to hard disk also, BUT copy process on Windows 2000 would corrupt the files. Flash update on the unit seemed to have improved the process but still windows 98 would do a better job (100% correct copy back from burned CD).

Unfortunately, the original CD-s are in bad condition right now, and I am trying to copy them back from those mp3-s I saved.

I even made two copies of each backup I made and now both copies came out to be corrupt. The copy process just stops!

One machine (windows 98 IBM thinkpad) can do the copy but it corrupts the files (you can hear pops and scratches all over the place).

What can I do with this? Is there any information on why would this happen between the two OS-es like that or with this particular unit? I think I have one unit saved somewhere that I could hopefully use to revive these CD-s.

[smearbrick1]

I would try to have the discs repaired.

[dinkob]

I actually tried just about everything I could.

I have that scratch repair stuff (which did help with some audio cd-s) tried different computers, but it turns out that CD is just burned wrong right from the start.

I am checking other CD-s right now. However, It looks like only two files are permanenetly damaged on this CD (totalling about 250 megs file sizes, about 90 megs roughly is the damaged portion).