Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
CD Recovery Toolbox saves data from damaged discs
by Brad Linder Aug 27th 2007 at 7:00PM
There are plenty of utilities out there designed to help you recover data you've accidentally deleted. But what if your PC won't even recognize the disc you're trying to read?CD Recovery Toolbox helps you grab information from any optical disc in your drive, whether Windows recognizes it or not. Don't let the name fool you, CD Recovery Toolbox can also handle DVDs and HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs.
If your disc is scratched, chipped, or has marks on the surface, Windows will have a difficult time reading it. But that doesn't mean all the data's lost. CD Recovery Toolbox scans the disc and locates all the files that can be recovered and lets you copy them to your hard drive.
The free utility should run on any PC running Windows 98 or later.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Roger William Turner said 9:24AM on 8-28-2007
This really ought to be standard behavior for optical drives and the OS driving them; if it can't read the media, it displays what files it can see while having alerted the user that there are reading problems and that they should copy what files are available over ASAP.
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Roger William Turner said 9:24AM on 8-28-2007
Wouldn't this be relatively easy to implement in Linux, referring to my above comment?
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Dan said 9:24AM on 8-28-2007
Don't bother. I have a disk I've used ISO Buster to recover the best I can. This software wouldn't even recognize a disk is in the drive. I contacted support to learn they offer ZERO support for this product.
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warrenjoseph76 said 9:25AM on 8-28-2007
tried it last night after seeing it on here and worked like a charm on some old burned cd compilations from albums that have since been stolen....so KICKASS! The best part was that you could select exactly which files you want to recover, and also quickly skip over files that are taking too long. This way it worked very very fast! Good find.
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Cyber said 9:52AM on 8-28-2007
This software simply works via Windows !? Sees what Windows sees, reads what Windows reads ... (ok, it might not give up as easily as Windows). No, ... give me IsoBuster then. IsoBuster is absolute top notch software compared to this. IsoBuster finds and reads what Windows doesn't even find.
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