In the garage, with a shotgun, a rubber chicken, my cat, a RealDoll named Tsuki, a 6oz swordfish steak, a Captain Caveman decoder ring, a picture of the 1973 Dodgers, Zoomie's foot fetish, the occasional stripper to beat me up, 5 nicotine patches, a vial of Family Guy Anti Bacterial Soap, the occasional call from Suze, the occasional smoo, Avast AntiVirus, Mosh's Magical Marsupials, a bottle of Crisco, Spybot - Search & Destroy, the dude who pooped in the tuba, a PitBull named "Diesel", a limited edition 'Tickle Me Elmo', a Darth Vader mask, Terry Fader's turtle puppet, a bag of Ol'Roy dog food, a $5 gift certificate to "Biz-E-G's 'Lapdances and Laundry'", Lisa Lisa from the Cult Jam, the fabled "TSi CockRing Set", the new TSi "Paddle Me Palin" doll, a 250cc syringe full of empscum, a "Hello Kitty" tongue piercing kit, a pirated copy of WinRAR, a roasted turkey leg, my "Police Squad" box set, and K_o_C's non-used tube of Anal Eaze, I feel safe ...
Ok, I have some older CD-R's that I'd like to try and copy the files off, but my DVD reader/CD writer wont copy. I can see the files on the CD's, so the catalog's are ok, but when it comes to actually reading these files, nope, it don't happen. It seems only a section of these CD's are dodgy, as some files can be read, while other can't.
Question: I've heard about software that will read partially written CD's, or CD's where the burn has failed. Would this software be able to ready CD's where some of the files apparently cant be read? Any suggestions as to what would be decent software for doing this type of thing?
Thrash is right, try making an image of the disk, programs like fantom CD or Clone CD make all the disk contents into one file on your hard drive, and works even if the disk is blank. What it does, is compresses and breaks down files and emulates it as a fake CD rom. So, say you make the image file of your cd, you mount it on this "virtual software drive" and it will read it as a software version of a CD. This way, when it compiles, the data is converted into one universal readable state, which is done by the program.
Sorry for sounding so technical, its easier to show you then to explain it. Try it out, ive had CDs that were scratched to hell and wouldnt read, so i made an image and it worked like new...
