Re: [PLUG] Recovering data from damaged CDs

[Greg Lopp <lopp@pobox.com>]

Art Alexion wrote:
> On Friday 28 April 2006 14:52, Lee Marzke wrote:
>   
> I tried cleaning like a pair of glasses.  There doesn't seem to be anything 
> wrong with the surface.  This seems to be happening to all of my CD-RWs 
> (CD-Rs OK).
>   
CDRWs have a very different reflectivity than CDs or CDRs.  It is not 
uncommon for CDRWs to be unusable in non-CDRW-compatible devices. 

Are you using the same device to read as you did to write? 

I'd next point a finger at the quality of the media.  The cost of media 
has continued to fall while the cost of materials (plastics derived from 
petroleum) has risen.....

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