{"id":51,"date":"2009-01-17T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T10:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sanchitkarve.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-01-17T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T10:26:53","slug":"fixing-a-cd-in-3-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sanchitkarve.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/17\/fixing-a-cd-in-3-easy-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing a CD in 3 easy steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend gave me his CD which had broken into two pieces and asked if I could fix it.<\/p>\n

\"cd_before\"<\/p>\n

Looking at it I knew there was no way I could recover all the files correctly, but there was a possibility that some files could be recovered. So I took up the challenge.<\/p>\n

The first thing that I wanted to do was to attach the CD using Pidilite’s FeviQuick but I didn’t have any so I used FeviCol instead to attach the two pieces together.<\/p>\n

\"step1\"<\/p>\n

There were way too many scratches and the portion near the crack had vanished so I wasn’t too optimistic about the result. But I had way too much time on my hands so I thought I’d go all the way just to see what happens.<\/p>\n

After an hour or two, the glue had hardened but the CD would still bend when lifted. I then used cellotape to ensure that the CD remained in one piece.<\/p>\n

\"step2\"<\/p>\n

After the cellotape fix, I realized that I had spilt some of the Fevicol on the CD layer.<\/p>\n

\"step3_before\"<\/p>\n

I used a combination of cologne and my mom’s nail polish remover to remove the glue and it even managed to remove a few scratches.<\/p>\n

\"step3_after\"<\/p>\n

That’s it. The CD was firm, relatively clean and seemed ready for the Acid Test \u00a0so I inserted it in my laptop’s CD drive.<\/p>\n

\"step4\"<\/p>\n

Obviously with the amount of damage the disc had taken there was no way Windows would even detect it as a CD.<\/p>\n

I used some of the free tools from here<\/a> and I managed to recover a few text files, pictures and portions of a video.<\/p>\n

You’ll probably have more luck with your recovery process if your CDs are in better condition. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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