When you take the time to inventory everything you have in your home (or office), you may come across a number of CD-ROMs (or DVDs). When you see the title on the label, you remember that there are a few photos that you could be recovering, a situation that can be complicated if this disk was in the middle of a large number of objects and artifacts that may have scratched it.
Very hardly anyone could rrecover information or data from a scratched CDThis being the objective of this article, since with the help of 4 different tools, we will have this possibility although, depending on the degree of damage suffered by this physical medium, the information could be recovered partially and not completely.
1. Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
This tool It can be recommended for everyone and especially for those who still have Windows XP on their computer. Once you go to the official website of its developer you will notice a small contextual menu that will allow you to choose the operating system to use this tool, with Windows and Linux being the preferred ones. You can also download a version to install or a laptop.
Regarding the work interface, this tool offers something really simple and easy to use. We just have to choose the drive where the damaged CD is located as source of origin and decide, the place where we want to copy the files to be recovered. This location can be our hard drive. The data restoration and recovery process can take some time if our CD has too many deep scratches.
2.CD Recovery Toolbox
With an interface completely different from the tool we mentioned above, this may be the preferred one for many because it is completely free and the way it operates from its interface.
Once we run this tool and let's explore the damaged CD drive, a small list with all the content will be displayed; As users, we only have to choose the respective boxes, which may involve, directories or folders that have been created as well as independent files. If we have already noticed that our CD-ROM has a high degree of scratches, we may want to try first, the recovery of the files that we consider most important.
3. IsoPuzzle
This tool It fulfills a very similar function to the one we proposed at the beginning; the difference is found primarily in the work interface, where we only have to select the source drive and where our damaged CD should be placed.
We can also choose the place where we want to save the recovered data. A small option present within the interface (Allow Cooldown) will help us to let the tool insist on data recovery. This could cause certain files to be restored with a small level of damage, a situation that could occur in photographs. If this is the case, then you could turn to the tools that will help you repair damaged photos.
4. CD Check
After executing this tool We will have to choose what we want to recover from a damaged CD, something that may well be folders created inside it as well as a different number of independent files. Later we will have to select the button that says "Recover" so that the restoration process begins immediately.
If we have good luck and there are files to recover, a window will open requesting us that we define the place where we want these files to be saved.
With any of these 4 alternatives that we have mentioned, we will have the possibility to start trying to recover any information that is hosted on this type of physical media; As we suggested at the beginning, what is recovered will depend primarily on the level of damage the CD-ROM or DVD has, although if a tool does not work, we can use another of the alternatives to try our luck again.