App. to recover a damaged CD?

[Nathan Skye]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it. Decided to dig out an old classic, Mechcommander 2, only to find out my friend damaged the CD when I lent it to him. So, I soaked it in hot, soapy water overnight, and I can now at least get a splash screen and up to 6% on the install.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good program that may be able to recover the data? I have CDMage, so if I could just pull an image I MAY be able to salvage it and burn it to a backup CD. (And people wonder why I backup my CDs...I wonder why I loan them to friends when I am finished with the games. :p )

I tried CloneCD, but it can't read it...does not get past 0%. I'm not looking for anything I have to buy, really, as Mechcommander 2 is not exactly worth it, but the disk is SO close to being readable, I was hoping some application out there might be able to extract an image I could repair.

Any ideas? Or is this just wishful thinking?

Thanks in advance...
-Nate

[cdkiller]

give ISO Buster a try...

[BaumDoktor]

CDroller is not bad either

[Nathan Skye]

Thanks! Between the two programs, I salvaged the files and was able to reinstall. Unfortunatly, it was not a 1-to-1 copy, so I had to track down a 'Fixed Exe' crack.

Ah well, better then nothing...which was all that scratched CD was! :rolleyes:

Thanks again!
-Nate

[Luciel]

try protection id to get the protection, then salvage an image and burn it in alcohol with that protection setting, maybe that way ull get a 1:1 :)

[reddragon105]

i saw a weird gizmo in a shop today...

http://www.office-world.co.uk/livp/webliv.pgm/wwgoto=web503/wwsku=135883

maybe something like that would work?
no idea what it does exactly, and IMO its not worth ?30 to find out
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[Luciel]

looks tasty tho :P i could do with one of those