Help, i'm desperate.

[Perfectguns]

Here's my story. My year high school football team is gathering up this upcoming January after a decade following our own separate paths. We'd very much like to display the team highlights, we won every game including the gold bowl that year, however, every disk my teammates have handed me are damaged and I'm unable to retrieve any more data out of them. 50% of the data is unreadable.

 

This is what I've tried so far to repair the disks: toothpaste, shaving cream, compound. Nothing seems to get the scratches off of the disk so far.

Those are the programs i've used to try and extract data: recover disk, recovery toolbox and a few more i can't remember.

 

Your help would be appreciated! I believe I will have to resort to get the data professionally extracted however I have no clues where to find an honest and reliable company/person to accomplish the task where i live (north shore of Laval in Quebec).

 

[iExpurge]

first:  stop trying to get the scratches out. At this point youre probably only making it worse.

Also are there backups other then these disks? If not, REALLY stop grinding.

Are you sure its the scratches that are the problem ? When was the last time those disks where used. because if its a while back, it might be disk rot.

Before you go any further try to backup what ever you have currently, so that cant get lost.

 

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[jnmbhj]

Try a banana and rub it in. Do not wipe if off and try again. If that does not work then well. Its pretty much lost

[GoodBytes]

Are you sure your optical disc drive is in tip top shape. Does it play other media. Did you tryt a different drive that might be better at error correcting and be able to read through some of the scratches?

 

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[WinNut]

It could be disk rot and not the scratches. Optical discs actually rot over the long term.

[Perfectguns]

Thank you for the responses everyone, i didn't have enough time to reply yesterday. I ended up buying a blu-ray writer and that did the trick. I recovered almost every frame of the video footage without any errors. I'm only missing a few minutes of the footage and thank god they are not game footage.

 

I did try to rub the disc with banana, didn't seem to help. 

 

That comment from goodbytes got me thinking, i tried the disk in my ps3 and it worked flawlessly.

 

Thanks again!

[GoodBytes]

Thank you for the responses everyone, i didn't have enough time to reply yesterday. I ended up buying a blu-ray writer and that did the trick. I recovered almost every frame of the video footage without any errors. I'm only missing a few minutes of the footage and thank god they are not game footage.

 

I did try to rub the disc with banana, didn't seem to help. 

 

That comment from goodbytes got me thinking, i tried the disk in my ps3 and it worked flawlessly.

 

Thanks again!

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