Corrupted Photo Disc

#1 Ally Maypole

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Posted 16 July 2008 - 12:18 PM

Hi all,

I have a CD-R full of pics which, for some reason, won't play at all. It says there is a hardware error. All my other discs work fine.

Is there any way I could recover the data? I've tried copying it and everything, and polishing the disc, but it says no.
It says there is a "cyclic redundancy check".

Some of the pics were on my hard drive actually - is there any way that they could be recoverable?

Thanks all,

Ally
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This post has been edited by Ally Maypole: 16 July 2008 - 01:31 PM

#2 nigglesnush85

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Posted 16 July 2008 - 03:35 PM

Hello Ally,

I use http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/cd-recovery.html to recover files of damaged disks.

Regards,

Alan.

#3 Ally Maypole

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Posted 16 July 2008 - 03:48 PM

Thanks very much for this - I'm having a go now. Not working at the moment, but I'm persevring with it in the hope that it will!

#4 Vaerli

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 12:23 AM

uhm, have you tried the disc in another computer? I would take hardware error to mean that its the disc drive that is at fault.

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#5 Ally Maypole

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 02:40 AM

Yes, I've tried it in three other computers. No luck!

Still attempting the CD-checker but nothing seems to be happening. :thumbsup:

I'll keep trying!

#6 Ally Maypole

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 03:40 AM

I just wanted to let everyone know that I've fixed it. Thanks for setting me on the right track.

In case anyone else has a similar problem, I used this:

http://www.download.com/inDisc-Recovery/30...cdlPid=10540300

Worked a treat, but then the disc stuffed up again. But I'd saved my pics by then! :thumbsup: