Floppy disk/cd recovery

[made zos ion]

Hello, I recently went through my surplus of floppy disks my father gave me. some of the disks have info on VERY important data, my father used to scan distillation towers  and other things. So I found a CD called IRIS.INC CONFIDENTIAL GAMMA-MASTER SOURCE CODE, IRIS.inc is my fathers old company he sold to Acuren, so I tried loading up the cd but it had a problem reading it please help! I also found a few floppy disks that wont read

[TetraSky]

CDs and Floppy can degrade over time, nothing you can do about it. If the data was really important, it would've been backed up and handed over to Acuren when they bought your dad's old company.

 

Trying to access this data might be illegal as well, since it's technically Acuren's property now.

[made zos ion]

oh, heres images of the cd's

[LogicalDrm]

Looking at those pics, I don't think they are that important. First image seems like basic installer disc, second might contain something and third looks more like joke than anything important. Like just from basic security perspective, having word confidential isn't a scare, and having it next to "source code" means I definitely want to look at it if I get it.

 

If the discs are working (= you can check whats inside), but can't actually access could mean they are made to be opened on certain special software and might have encryption of sorts.

 

Anyway, if they would have any actually important stuff, they would have been handed over in transfer of ownership or destroyed.