CD data recovery?

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Mon Sep 20 20:22:44 UTC 2004


Henry Spencer wrote:
> A low-tech :-) friend of mine asked me to inquire about this...
> 
> He's got a couple of CDs that are physically broken.  (Shouldn't have put
> them in checked baggage...)  They're not mass-market items, and it would
> be difficult to replace them without repeating some fairly expensive
> travels.  Anybody know of an outfit hereabouts that could recover their
> contents, either as data files or as duplicate disks?
> 
> (These are music CDs, as it happens, but I've come close to needing this
> once or twice for damaged CDROMs, and now he's got me curious too.)

I've never heard of such as service, and you can be sure it would be 
very expensive, if even possible.  Anyone attempting such a recovery 
would have to rejoin the pieces, to extremely close tolerances.  Even 
then they'd still have problems recovering the data.
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