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| Thread ID: 114749 | 2010-12-15 21:19:00 | How does one copy from a data CD with faulty files on it? | ssssss (2100) | Press F1 |
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| 1161954 | 2010-12-15 21:19:00 | I have a CD with 9000 photos on it. It is about 6 years old. Some of the files appear to be faulty, and when I try to copy the whole disc to the hard drive, the copy process completely hangs up when it comes to a faulty file. Even after I have clicked 'skip', on the window that opens. Is there an easy way around this, please? |
ssssss (2100) | ||
| 1161955 | 2010-12-15 21:20:00 | There is a free CD fix-type utility that may help...but I can't recall the name, and I think I uninstalled it. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1161956 | 2010-12-15 21:26:00 | In the past I've used imgburn to do this - try to create an ISO file from the disk. It will retry each sector a set number of times, and you can skip sectors it can't read. I've managed to recover scratched video DVDs using this method before, it can take a very long time but it's worth a go. See attached image for where you can change that setting if you want to give it a go... |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1161957 | 2010-12-15 21:39:00 | Maybe use Ubuntu Live ? :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1161958 | 2010-12-15 21:42:00 | Take the CD to your local Video rental place and get them to give it a clean may help if it is scratched. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1161959 | 2010-12-15 22:22:00 | Try another PC with a fairly new CD/DVD drive. May be the CD drive is getting tired, not likely but worth a try. Try a data recovery program, search the forum for a free one. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1161960 | 2010-12-15 22:22:00 | www.roadkil.net | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1161961 | 2010-12-17 22:31:00 | Thanks. I will try imgburn or roadkil sometime. But I am very slow at doing things, so it will take me a while to getting around to it! Its a pity Windows doesn't come with better CD/DVD copying software. |
ssssss (2100) | ||
| 1161962 | 2010-12-17 22:35:00 | dd_rescue will be able to copy the whole disk to an image, and is excellent at coping with errors. Photorec should be able to recover most of the files. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1161963 | 2010-12-17 23:27:00 | Or burnaware free can copy the disc as an image | gary67 (56) | ||
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