Data recovery on damaged disc

uksoldierboy · 22 Nov 2013 at 11:43

Hiya guys,

Don't know if this is in the right place so Mods feel free to move if it isn't.

After a long search i've managed to find my original disc containing all my Tour pictures, the only problem is that the disc is quite scratched.

After popping it in my Disc drive, it reads it fine, starts copying but only gets so far before stopping with and error that it failed to read the disk, leaving around 20 or so pictures still to copy.

Is there anything i can use, maybe a program or something, that would help me extract the pictures?

Massive thanks to anyone that can help.

David

ExRayTed · 22 Nov 2013 at 12:10

Search for CampicRestor. I've used it to retrieve photos from corrupt cds and dvds in the past with great success.

*EDIT* After searching for it myself I can see it's difficult to find now. If you have trouble email me your details and I'll email the file to you as it's less than 1mb (email in TRUST)

Thekwango · 22 Nov 2013 at 12:17

sorry this might be a tad cheeky, but any chance Ted you could fire it my way too. Am actually going through the same problem as OP. would be very grateful if you could

uksoldierboy · 22 Nov 2013 at 12:38

ExRayTed said:
Search for CampicRestor. I've used it to retrieve photos from corrupt cds and dvds in the past with great success.

*EDIT* After searching for it myself I can see it's difficult to find now. If you have trouble email me your details and I'll email the file to you as it's less than 1mb (email in TRUST)

Very kind of you thanks bud,

trust sent.

joey1211 · 22 Nov 2013 at 12:43

Well, another cheeky request here aswell. Useful tool for the arsenal.

fizzy · 22 Nov 2013 at 14:53

I assume that you mean a CD/DVD if it's scratched? There are a few physical scratch removal tools/repair kits for them. Some essentially skim/polish the disk to try and remove scratches. Others work a bit like windscreen repair kits and "fill in" the scratches (allegedly).

They vary on success rate, but a good clean usually helps a lot with reading problematic disks. I've used "SkipDR" which is a pretty old kit but has helped recover disks.

If you have circular scratches that cover a large section of a track then these are difficult to recover from.

For digital recovery, I've used "RecoverMyFiles" before to get a lot of data back. Deep scans take a while and can come back with a lot of random data though, since it treats everything as possible files/data.