[Novalug] Bad CD's...

William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Tue Feb 15 18:07:55 EST 2011


On 2/14/2011 9:59 PM, Roy Wilson wrote:
>    I've been pulling data from old CD's and DVD's.  The failure rate (physical!)
> on pre-2004 TDK brand CD-R's is ludicrous.
>
>    About one in three have gaps from the foil flaking.
>
>    So if you have old CDs that *might* be TDK brand, best check them now and
> recover what you can from them.
>
>    These were NOT subjected to any extremes in temperature, humidity, etc.
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ext hdd's are cheap...so are flash drives..:)



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