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My DVD is separated into layers! Please help!

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by maruko_pii 1 view

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Today I was doing cleaning, and the clumsy me brought down the cabinet = =|||The DVDs were thrown onto the floor and I found out that one particular DVD separated into halves. T.T

The bottom layer has separated 1/3 from the upper layer and I can't seem to play it in my computer.

This DVD has a lot of photos of my family during vacations and family functions. Unfortunately I did not do a backup copy... Please help!

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by oh smeg

But if you used the same Brand DVD Blanks for other Backup procedures you should rerecord them all right away before they start doing the same thing.

If you really are desperate and [b]Money is No Object[/b] you can take this Separating DVD to a Data Recovery House like On Track and let them loose with it, but I doubt that there is anything that is possible to do here as the dye layer has been damaged though they may be able to recover some Data off it.

[b]Important[/b] Do Not place this Disc into any DVD Reader as it may denigrate and destroy the Drive but far more importantly injure anyone near the drive when it falls to bits. Todays High Speed DVD Readers are not suitable to read things like this you need to place them in a slow speed drive where you can limit the speed and at the same time force the layers back together. This is a special machine that isn't a Computer or any Domestic DVD Drive. Ideally disc's like this need to be read at less than 100th speed so there is no chance of them breaking up.

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by mjd420nova

I've had the unfortunate task of removing a few of these disks from CD/DVD drives when they were inserted by users hoping they would still work. A couple were left in the drives and seperated there unknown by the users and quite a few were inserted by the users thinking they would still work. I have found that the disks were cheap blanks that were purchased at flea markets or discount warehouses. Some were left in a car for extented periods and saw extra heat and sunlight that hastened the problem to good quality disks. I usually make two copies of archived info, one goes into a working library and the other into a safe deposit box or my safe with the cash and guns.

by brian

Agreeing with the second post about Ontrack data recovery, their website is: http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/
you ma also want to look into Drive Savers, they are not as costly, but still expensive.... their site is: http://www.drivesavers.com
Take this advice from a Data Recovery Technician, you do not want to attempt this yourself.

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