Retrieve the contents still visible from a CD or DVD ruined

We have already addressed the issue of restoration of damaged CD or DVD by removing scratches with "homemade tricks. This time we'll see how we can tackle the problem from the point of view software, using a program that provides access to the media ruined by extracting and recovering only the portions of readable data and ignoring the damaged ones. Obviously, the technique does not exclude the other, indeed the best thing you can do in their most desperate cases is to use both systems to minimize the loss of real data.

Copy Cat is a free tool that can access the data on any CD or DVD even if only partially legible, copying only the portions still intact and ignoring the damaged ones. Specifically Copy Cat is characterized by the fact that:

• can copy the entire contents of the CD / DVD also reading a byte at a time
• when encountered servings / unreadable sectors can be configured to skip a number of bytes to your liking
• is very fast and simple to use

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