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Post by thingyy on Jan 6, 2008 13:16:08 GMT
Due to high humidity the skin has come off one of my CD's in places and cant be read. Whats the easiest way to retrieve the data ,can I paste a cooking tin foil on it ?
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JazzCat
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Post by JazzCat on Jan 7, 2008 7:06:15 GMT
No. If you paste something to the skin it still isn't re-adhearing the skin to the plastic disk. Even if that would work anythihg that is placed on the disk, other than a CD lable, would cause it to be out of balance,and may even cause it to fly apart in the drive. (With the speed of drives steadily increasing most companies even discourage the use of lables.) Once the skin has come off like that you already have damaged data. That disk is lost. To avoid that in the future, consider spending the extra money on archival disks. Here is an informative article on the subject: luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-05-09-04.shtml |
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Post by thingyy on Jan 7, 2008 8:45:02 GMT
Boo hoo I just lost a whole disc of midi files.Luckily I gave my mate a copy before I left N.Z.
I have now got them all stored safely away from the 98 percent humidity.
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JazzCat
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Post by JazzCat on Jan 7, 2008 8:52:57 GMT
Still, you might want to consider using archival CDs. Even CDs that are closed away can deteriorate.
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Post by JohnG on Jan 7, 2008 10:14:51 GMT
JazzCat's quite right. It's false economy to buy cheap CDs unless they're just to be used for a short while and then destroyed. The old advert about "perfect sound, forever" was and is just marketing b*****t.
Right on target again, JazzCat!
JohnG.
(JAS member)
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