One of the worst PC experiences is to find your precious backup CDs or DVDs are unreadable due to scratches or surface degradation. At this site [1] they list three utilities, including two freebies, that will help you recover your vital data. I’ve previously used one of these programs, ISOBuster [2], and it does a great job with both CDs and DVDs. Don’t expect miracles though, like the guy who wrote to me last year who had put a hot fry pan on a precious CD accidentally left on his kitchen counter. I’m sure even ISOBuster couldn’t read the molten plastic mass welded to the bottom of the pan. :>)
[1] http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/09/recover-data-files-from-damaged.html
[2] http://www.isobuster.com/ Donationware, all Windows versions, 2.6MB
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