Reading old CD-R's

[Cal Sharp]

This was discussed before:

http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum12/HTML/002141.html

[Dickie Whitley]

Well, I knew my "Senior" moments would eventually catch up with me. I sometimes don't remember what I had for lunch the day before much less something I did over three years ago.

Good find Cal, I had totally forgotten that.

I wonder what else I've forgotten?

[Gordy Hall]

A little off topic here but has anyone tried one of the newer programs that prints your art & copy onto the disk itself?

My newest 'puter came with a 'lightscribe' burner, and it's okay...limited to two color, and the version I have takes longer to label the cd or dvd than it did to burn it! You also have to buy special discs.

but they look pretty good, and have had no known problems with the discs.

Gordy

[Wayne Carver]

Isn't "Exact Audio Copy" suppose to copy bad cd's better than other software? It is freeware I think.

[Dale Gray]

If the disks are scratched some rental video's store can clean them up and make them useable. Dale.

[Ray Minich]

It's weird that modern CD/DVD-RW drives totally fail on these old CD-R's.

I've held on to a number of older CD-RW drives just for that reason. I've got an HP-8300 and an HP 9100 drive I use for recovery/restore, and to burn music CD's at 4x and 8x. The new 52X drives just don't have the reliability.

Of course it helps to have a dozen PC's of different vintage set up in the lab to access old data.

Got any 360 kb floppies you need read? Bournoulli box anyone? Sorry, Edison cylinders are out.

I miss them first generation CD players that used a cassette. You had to insert the CD into the cassette/carrier box and then insert the carrier into the CD drive. More stuff to go wrong...

[Mark White]

I've used this program many times, works like a charm on old disks:
http://www.cdroller.com/