Re: Looking for tool to recover data from damaged DVDs

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 20:21 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 11/28/06, Mike McCarty <Mike McCarty sbcglobal net> wrote:
> > > Is there some tool to recover data from damaged DVDs?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Is it scratched? Or what? What kind of damage?
> >
> > You might go by a place which sells video games for Play Stations
> > and the like, and get a "CD polishing" or "DVD restorer" kit. I
> > haven't used one.
> 
> My DVDs do not look damaged or scratched, but I am always getting I/O
> errors. Is there some way of circumventing those I/O errors?
> 
> Paul
> 
I would take a piece of cotton and some ethyl alcohol and clean the disk
surface. That has always worked for me. I have an advantage in doing
this isnce I am a diabetic so I have a supply of alcohol wipes you can
get in your favorite drugstore.
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