This CD data recovery software is free and developed by a Russian named Ivan Komlev. It features a friendly GUI interface and it only needs three steps to copy files from damaged CD.1. Choose source drive
2. Selecting destination drive and folder
3. Copy files automatically.
From what I read on the website, this software tries to read the damaged media block and copy it to a specified location. For the block that is unreadable on the CD, it will replace with some random data. Usually when you try to play a scratched CD, your CD player will be jumping from one track to another or will hang if it's badly damaged. This software lets you create a new CD out of the damaged CD, so you can still play it, albeit with some data loss.
The Dead Disk Doctor website says that this freeware "works excellent with Video or Audio files". From my logic, I think that's true because you can skip a few seconds in video or audio files and you can still play it.
Another good news is that the Dead Disk Doctor works on Intel Pentium 133Mhz or equivalent supporting Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP or higher with only 32Mb RAM and 7Mb free disk space on hard drive for installation. Of course you'll be needing more disk space to recover and copy your dead CD data to your hard drive.
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