> I'm guessing that there are no visible scratches on the media or you'd
have
mentioned them.
That's correct, no physical damage can be observed on the media surface
My first attempt would be to try more different drives than the two you've
tried so far, in the hope that they'll have different reading >
characteristics.
I was hoping my laptop at work would read these, no such luck!
It seems there are some recovery software out there, but I hate to be
paying to try these especially if it still can't read the files.
At least I can slowly go through and skip over the damaged files to recover
the rest, but it's such a painfully manual process..........
Ken
Unfortunately some CD's are very severely affected by even the
slightest bit of UV, so you can't leave them exposed to light. I've
had some CD's go bad on a desk near a north facing window in a few
days. CD quality matters; the best ones are Mitsui Gold, the rest
are downhill from there and most should only be used for things that
you won't be interested in any more in a couple of years, even if
you store them correctly.
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No sooner do I write the above than I read about delkin's
announcement of their gold DVD-R media. They also sell re-badged
Mitsui gold CD-R media, so the DVD-R media might be from Mitsui as
well.
http://www.delkin.com/delkin_products_archival_gold_dvd.html
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