Cracked CDs - is there anything I can do?

perc · 5 Jan 2007 at 20:16

Hi two CDs which I have put a load of family pictures on have got split in half when they were sat on. Is there anything I can do to repair these at all?

XtAsY · 5 Jan 2007 at 20:20

I'm afraid not. You've lost your photos sorry to say

joeyjojo · 5 Jan 2007 at 20:33

Are they readable at all? I'm quite curious. I've tried cracked audio cds and it's un-listenable though

FunkyCowie · 5 Jan 2007 at 20:34

surely you have a backup of such important things?

Dark_Angel · 5 Jan 2007 at 20:45

XtAsY said:
I'm afraid not. You've lost your photos sorry to say

/thread hijack. Nice to see someone from 3d Buzz. I have the same name there but I rarely post, I mainly stalk the forums

/topic back on track

I am sorry to say that I doubt there is anything that you can do. MAYBE some professional data recovery firm may be able to do something (I have no clue) but be prepared to pay for the service... (quite a bit so I hear).

Mr Spew · 5 Jan 2007 at 20:45

FunkyCowie said:
surely you have a backup of such important things?

Yeah.

IceShock · 5 Jan 2007 at 23:18

what id try to do is put it on a 100% perfectly flat surface so that the split bit are totally aligned then glue the other side lol.

worth a shot if you want to risc nackering a dvd drive

KiNgPiN83 · 5 Jan 2007 at 23:24

FunkyCowie said:
surely you have a backup of such important things?

I would have thought if he did have a backup, this thread wouldnt exist...

joeyjojo · 5 Jan 2007 at 23:25

Problem is you've definitely lost a fair bit of data either side of the crack, I don't know what scale individual pits/grooves are, but there's bound to be a fair few across the width of the crack which are unreadable.

perc · 6 Jan 2007 at 08:28

Thanks for the replies - I appreciate your advice/opinions

I will try the glue method I think as a final shot before I accept they are gone

I will let you know the results .....

rapid64k · 6 Jan 2007 at 09:46

FunkyCowie said:
surely you have a backup of such important things?

err i believe those are his back ups :rolleyes:

sean · 6 Jan 2007 at 10:01

perc said:
Thanks for the replies - I appreciate your advice/opinions

I will try the glue method I think as a final shot before I accept they are gone

I will let you know the results .....

Use a really slow CDROM drive: Your modern 40x reader'll just tear them apart, possibly damaging itself in the process.

I don't want to sound like a naysayer but with a damaged table of contents I'll be surprised if the disc can be read at all

Mr Spew · 6 Jan 2007 at 14:48

rapid64k said:
err i believe those are his back ups

Where's the original?

perc · 6 Jan 2007 at 15:01

Mr Spew said:
Where's the original?

On my hard drive which I was in the process of formatting and restoring

joeyjojo · 6 Jan 2007 at 15:04

perc said:
On my hard drive which I was in the process of formatting and restoring

Man that's so unlucky

m_cozzy · 6 Jan 2007 at 15:10

Sounds like you may have more luck trying to recover them from your hard drive using getdataback or some such program.

londonbairn · 6 Jan 2007 at 15:20

perc said:
On my hard drive which I was in the process of formatting and restoring

Try using Restorer2000, I've used that to restore so much old data, I found an old HD from 2000 which seemed to be useless, used that and it managed to find some old "candid" pics of an ex

ANDARIAL · 6 Jan 2007 at 15:36

rafster said:
Try using Restorer2000, I've used that to restore so much old data, I found an old HD from 2000 which seemed to be useless, used that and it managed to find some old "candid" pics of an ex

TTIUWP

Tomsk · 6 Jan 2007 at 15:37

perc said:
Thanks for the replies - I appreciate your advice/opinions

I will try the glue method I think as a final shot before I accept they are gone

I will let you know the results .....

Good luck trying to align the CD tracks - IIRC they're pitched at 1.6 microns!

FunkyCowie · 6 Jan 2007 at 16:13

rapid64k said:
err i believe those are his back ups

what sarcasm does't work any more?

To be more helpful... don`t fill up the drive, preferably don`t put anything on the drive because you may be able to send it away and have the contents retrieved... hopefully including your photos. If your photos aren't worth the expense you could try yourself but with software available to the public you have a lower success rate.