Posted by Biz on 11/14/53 11:27

There is very little software that will overcome an unreadable disk, you
just have to hope you get lucky and find a different drive that can read teh
data on it....

Was it an offbrand disk, or has it been exposed to too much UV, or just
plain old?

"Abe" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Abe

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