Hardware
by sgt_shultz
i have never heard of doing a repair on a broken cd. i assume you have put the thing in and it can't be read. i wonder if you could put clear tape over the whole thing.
you could try using a cd copy program. it might try the hardest to copy past errors...just 2 cents
by salvi
by icb's corner
by uu22_1978
by hal 9000
Depends on the CD in question.
If it is a pressed CD then you may be able to recover some data though I would only ever consider using it in a [b]Low Speed CD Player[/b] as there is the possibility of the thing breaking and shattering the CD Player. I saw that once with a High Speed Burner and Cheap Media it literally exploded cutting to shreds the user and destroying the wall behind them as well as the Burner.
DVD X Copy has a utility that can recover data of a badly damaged CD/DVD though in a case like this I'm not sure how well it would work but if you could be sure of only running it at 1 X then you just might have a chance of recovering some data off the Disc, any faster will be very dangerous.
Col
by hal 9000
If you do try this make sure that the CD Drawer is pointing way from you just in case it breaks. If that was to happen everything that hits you will be plastic that will not show up in an X Ray so the doctors will have to dig around looking for the plastic which is both time consuming, expensive and painful.
The guy that got hit by the exploding Cd spent 5 weeks in hospital initially and then several more trips back to Surgery to extract more of the plastic as infection set in. He was also poisoned by the Dye in the CD and that caused a lot of problems for the Medical Staff.
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