cdr - reflactive coating

[1prjtmech]

any way to salvage a cdr that is unreadable because of damaged reflective coating?

 

[corkyg]

Not really. They are so cheap it's not worth it. Toss it and try another one. Like we're talking an average of about 40 cents a pop these days for 16X 80 minute blanks.

(The recording surface is a varnish, and can't be polished like a commercial scratched CD.)

 

[1prjtmech]

it's not the price of the disc that I'm worried about - it's the info. on it that I need to recover

 

[Warin]

I had the same problem.

Basically, all you can do is read off whatever files are not in the damaged section. If the ones you need wont copy off, then you are pretty much done.

What is damaged is actually not a reflective coating, it's the actual surface that is recorded on. So if it's ruined, then so is your data.

Get what you can off the disc as soon as you can.

 

[gsaldivar]

if you have data lost due to damaged media (the actual reflective layer - not the clear plastic), your SOL. sorry!

 

[baldy]

how does one have the reflective coating go bad so soon???

did it sit in the sun???

baldy

 

[1prjtmech]

I found that CD-R Diagnostic was able to recover some of the info.