Don't just stand there, help me!

nobodythere · 31-10-2005 12:50am #1

I have a wee bit of a problem...

I have 2 CD's full of very important stuff. Anyway, little did I know that they're fairly cheap CD's, and writing on them with a marker seems to have fecked them up a bit. The FAT and a good few of the files are still intact but there's a good bunch of files that just freeze the computer when I try to copy them over. The CD is pretty see thru so I'm guessing the marker stopped the light reflecting and zeroed some of the data.

I was wondering if anyone would know how i'd go about recovering this. It's really important to me, so pretty pleeeeease?

Any help would be well appreciated.

JPA · 31-10-2005 12:54am

This might feck your CD up completely but have you tried washing off the marker? Might work but don't take my word for it!

f1refox · 31-10-2005 12:57am

The best thing for cleaning cd's is Vodka.:D

snappieT · 31-10-2005 1:09am

Or perhaps another CD reader that isn't so picky...

Can you access the files by the DOS prompt?

SolarNexus · 31-10-2005 12:32pm

pop into GAME or PC WORLD and get yourself a Disk Doctor, or get yer'self one of those JML (I doubt how useful JML stuff is) disk repair kits their advertising now on sky digital. It will shave a tiny layer of plastic off the disk, and along with it, the marker ink.

kdouglas · 31-10-2005 12:59pm

unless the marker is on the side that gets read by the laser then do not do that, if you use one of those disk doctor things on the label side of the disc you'll destroy it completely, especially since they're cheap discs, the previous suggestions of using a different cd reader or cleaning the ink off (very carefully) are your best bet.

the_syco · 31-10-2005 1:17pm

Try using a good cd-writer to read it, or make an iso out of it, and then open the iso.

jcoote · 31-10-2005 1:22pm

yeah i'd iso it tbh...i'm sure a decent writer will see the tracks rather than the individual files and enable u to back up the files for reburning or just use alcohol 120% to mount the image onto a virtual dvd drive to allow access to the files within the iso

Voodoo2 · 31-10-2005 2:18pm

Or else put a CD Label on the side you have written on to stop the laser reading throught :-P

the best thing is a different CD writer!

Don't just stand there, help me!

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