Posted by DeepOne on 11/14/41 11:27

Abe <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

>I have a CD-R that has some important data, but the disk has somehow
>become completely unreadable (the CD is clean and unscratched).
>I've tried Windows based recovery tools, but they are all useless,
>because Windows itself will not mount the CD.
>
>Is there a DOS-based tool that will let me get directly at the
>hardware to try and read/recover whatever is actually there? I know
>it'll be raw sector data most likely, but that is better than nothing.

Have you tried this? http://www.infinadyne.com/cddvd_diagnostic.html

You can download a free evaluation version which will show you what it
will be able to recover from your disc (you have to pay for the
program to actually recover anything though).

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