How To Recover Files From Corrupted/Scratched CD/DVD

by Sanix in Downloads,Software,Troubleshooting on March 10, 2009

I was at my friend’s place and we have taken a CD ROM disk to watch a movie together. When I inserted the CD in my laptop’s drive and started playing in Windows Media Player, it gave an error that the media seems to be corrupt and Windows Media Player cannot play the file. VCD Cutter was able to play the file but we wanted to play it in Windows Media player because of its quality. When I wanted to copy the file from the CD ROM disk, it gave a CRC copy error.

Then I searched the internet for a possible solution and I found this little tool called Unstoppable Copier. Its a very small tool, just below 100 KB but it does some great work.

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This tool can recover files from disks with bad sectors and even disks with physical damage can be recovered from this tool. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end. So if anyone is having troubles copying from CD ROM disks, he should use this software to copy the files and it’ll do it perfectly.

Homepage:

http://www.roadkil.net/

Download:

Unstoppable Copier 3.56 (79.0 KiB, 12,561 hits)

Unstoppable Copier 4 Beta (83.6 KiB, 6,148 hits)


{ 27 comments… read them below or add one }

1 shoaib March 11, 2009 at 5:54 pm

thankz bro……….for this

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2 Sufi007 March 12, 2009 at 9:59 am

Coool find….Thanks

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3 Carlo Mendoza March 13, 2009 at 9:13 am

That’s a great find. I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s worth stashing away. Thanks.

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4 jamsheer April 3, 2009 at 10:22 pm

I would like learn more about these. I hoping you will helping for me

Cheerfully
Jamsheer

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5 steven April 20, 2009 at 2:37 am

Last night my mom found my porn folder, and came across several pics where I had photoshopped her head onto white girls being drilled by huge black dudes. I blamed it on my brother.

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6 chris May 4, 2009 at 4:56 pm

Steven, I am a huge black dude. I have been drilling your mother for the last six months, while you were playing with your willy/photoshop.

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7 Steve May 24, 2009 at 9:46 am

Chris, I am a small white dude. I have been drilling your mother, sister, and wife for the last six months, while you were out drilling Steven’s mother. Check Mate.

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8 lifemare May 26, 2009 at 6:23 am

I use old CIA (Copy It Anyway) wich replaces unreadable areas with zeros (binary) – pretty small also. In a movie you won’t notice it, but smaller files (documents or images) will probably be glitchy if not corrupted (ie:faulty headers) and forget about compressed archives.
I’ll try this one out. But i doubt it will do a better job regarding file types. You should probably consider letting your readers know about these limitations.

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9 Dave June 17, 2009 at 11:41 pm

This will KILL Paypal

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10 DennisJB June 18, 2009 at 8:57 pm

Just what i need thanks for the find.

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11 Borellus August 12, 2009 at 11:15 pm

Sweet, I may need to use this soon. I have a scratched CD I have some old backups on. They arn’t important but it would be useful if I got them back.

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12 Xpoint August 18, 2009 at 10:46 am

Another great product to try is Advanced File Recovery (http://www.advanced-file-recovery.com/), apparently it works very well. I can’t say from my experience, as I have luckily never been in a situation where I would need to recover files, but from what I’ve heard it does a great job. This program supports different media types: memory sticks, hard drives, memory cards from digital cameras, floppies, external drives, and others.

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13 Sanix August 19, 2009 at 9:02 am

Xpoint thanks a lot for your comment. I will test Advanced File Recovery and review it if I find it more useful.

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14 sanju August 22, 2009 at 9:55 pm

it is fully faaltu

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15 Amr September 30, 2009 at 4:54 am

hope this works out

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16 filesearch.web.id March 8, 2010 at 4:22 am

nice info, thanks for sharing.

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17 Ayub April 29, 2010 at 2:58 am

i must say this software is helpfull i recovered 99% of my stuff back nver thought i would ever have access to the files again thanks for whoever has made this program availability

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18 Deepdp April 29, 2010 at 11:53 am

The simplest way to recover lost photos is to use a powerful Memory card recovery Software called Remo Recover Photo (Windows).

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19 Sanix April 29, 2010 at 12:25 pm

@Deepdp
This software is not free. We are talking about free softwares.

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20 Gary May 15, 2010 at 5:22 pm

Hi and hanks for a good tips of a useful software. Cheers!

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21 Student Brands May 22, 2010 at 5:42 pm

Thanks for the great info, will keep this site for future reference

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22 sandeep June 9, 2010 at 9:45 am

special thanks…. i love to download it…it is really nice

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23 niraj July 20, 2010 at 11:05 pm

DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT!!! IT doesn’t really do anything and worst. It stays as a process and no matter how much you try to kill it; it just remains there. Horrible experience!!!

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24 Hamayath September 7, 2010 at 7:21 pm

Dude, u r da man. U saved my 40 pounds. Was not being able to copy from the GTA IV disk until this “master-copier” of yours came. Nice find. Keep searching for new softs and help us out!

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25 juliana October 3, 2010 at 12:17 am

podria descargar el scrach

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26 JaskaranSHSD January 22, 2012 at 11:00 am

It Works Great……………

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27 Chow May 14, 2012 at 2:08 am

I don’t understand.

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