I learn an old thecnique to how to recover damaged or scratched disks
with some lost of data. In this case i have one borrowed game - MAX PAYNE 2
with a chunck of four mb lost with a scratch in CD1 Install. Here we cover some
special thecniques of how to make a full working CD from the scratched one.
First some tools will be needed:
1. Alcohol 120percent
2. UltraISO
3. Windows XP/2000 (not tested on 95/98/me)
3. Small part of cotton
4. Dry cleaner paper
5. Finally, oil for cooking.
First process - preparing the CD
Get the cotton and drop some water, start cleaning vertically the surface of CD.
Do it three times and dry the water with a part of dry cleaner paper. With a new piece
of cotton, drop some oil for cooking and start to wet the surface such as you are
washing the CD with the oil. Dry carefully now. Some particles of oil will stay on the
microsurface of the scrath. Its okay. Seems the oil helps the laser of the CD/DVD driver
to read the surface again. Sure this will work with small unreadable scratchs - some hard
scratchs loose parts of the surface of the CD where we have data and its lost forever.
But if it is loosed attempt anyway. Whith this tip 80percent of the small scratched CDs coud be
recovered.
Second Step - testing the CD
With Alcohol 120percent make an ISO - image making wizard - and lets see if the app can
read the loosed surface. In my case Alcohol 120percent had recovered 60percent of the data.
This is not enough. Have tryed other appz, they don't recover all the data. But the
CD/DVD driver laser CAN recover all data in this case. the data is still there, what we do?
third process - making the new CD
With the main copy method of windows explorer you can do it. Just make one folder
with the same name of the CD label for future burn reference, as well as copy the CD content
to the folder. When the CD copy process get the scratch, in majority of the cases, its
slow down the reading and will recover ALL loosed data.If not, it just tell you theres
an unreadable sector. In this case your CD is lost. But its not my case, finally
windows explorer got all the data from the scratch and made a copy in the folder.
with the ultraISO, wrote the original CD label, drop the content of the folder and
save as Iso. You can Test the new CD just mounting the iso in the Alcohol 120percent. In my
case i did ISO of the two discs from MAX PAYNE two and tested installing from the mounted
ISO. Works such as a charm. I got the four mb lost again. So, I have burned the CD and now i
have a working copy from the scratched one.
Sounds too bizzarre, but works. Course you can jump the cleaning process and attempt to copy
the content with Windows explorer. But in my case didn't work without oil...
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with some lost of data. In this case i have one borrowed game - MAX PAYNE 2
with a chunck of four mb lost with a scratch in CD1 Install. Here we cover some
special thecniques of how to make a full working CD from the scratched one.
First some tools will be needed:
1. Alcohol 120percent
2. UltraISO
3. Windows XP/2000 (not tested on 95/98/me)
3. Small part of cotton
4. Dry cleaner paper
5. Finally, oil for cooking.
First process - preparing the CD
Get the cotton and drop some water, start cleaning vertically the surface of CD.
Do it three times and dry the water with a part of dry cleaner paper. With a new piece
of cotton, drop some oil for cooking and start to wet the surface such as you are
washing the CD with the oil. Dry carefully now. Some particles of oil will stay on the
microsurface of the scrath. Its okay. Seems the oil helps the laser of the CD/DVD driver
to read the surface again. Sure this will work with small unreadable scratchs - some hard
scratchs loose parts of the surface of the CD where we have data and its lost forever.
But if it is loosed attempt anyway. Whith this tip 80percent of the small scratched CDs coud be
recovered.
Second Step - testing the CD
With Alcohol 120percent make an ISO - image making wizard - and lets see if the app can
read the loosed surface. In my case Alcohol 120percent had recovered 60percent of the data.
This is not enough. Have tryed other appz, they don't recover all the data. But the
CD/DVD driver laser CAN recover all data in this case. the data is still there, what we do?
third process - making the new CD
With the main copy method of windows explorer you can do it. Just make one folder
with the same name of the CD label for future burn reference, as well as copy the CD content
to the folder. When the CD copy process get the scratch, in majority of the cases, its
slow down the reading and will recover ALL loosed data.If not, it just tell you theres
an unreadable sector. In this case your CD is lost. But its not my case, finally
windows explorer got all the data from the scratch and made a copy in the folder.
with the ultraISO, wrote the original CD label, drop the content of the folder and
save as Iso. You can Test the new CD just mounting the iso in the Alcohol 120percent. In my
case i did ISO of the two discs from MAX PAYNE two and tested installing from the mounted
ISO. Works such as a charm. I got the four mb lost again. So, I have burned the CD and now i
have a working copy from the scratched one.
Sounds too bizzarre, but works. Course you can jump the cleaning process and attempt to copy
the content with Windows explorer. But in my case didn't work without oil...