On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:12:17 -0500, hfa@thehomefront.com wrote,
>I am going to start the posting of the hl/ca series sometime today. I have
not
>recovered anywhere near all of it yet, but I am
>starting with the hl series, and that is complete thru hl-50. By the time
>those finish I should be able to continue in order. I
>have run into a problem ripping some of this back off of cd/dvd, as some of
>them just plain won't let me copy back to
>computer. Hopefully I can get around this, but if not surely between the rest
>of the group we can get the whole series posted,
>as I will need a bunch of fills if this cd/dvd prob can't be worked out. I am
>only going to post 10-15 sets a day to give others
>the opportunity to continue posting what they have of other sets. Will update
>later on progress of cd/dvd prob.
>
>hfa
hfa,
Here's hoping you get your cd/dvd problems worked out.
I've had to deal with similar problems. My trouble traced generally to an
earlier penchant for labeling my disks with paper labels and a stamper. Over
time, as the humidity lowered, the paper shrank a bit pulling the disks into a
mild dish shape. I could tell as they rocked when placed on a flat surface.
They would read okay in places and in others, entire sets would fail to read
properly.
My first efforts to recover the data involved steaming the labels over a tea
kettle spout. Then I would gently bend the disks the other way trying to get
out the curve. This would work for a few minutes at a time then need
repeated.
Now I'm taking as much as I can get from the disks, then tearing off the
labels and trying again. Sometimes this fixes the entire disk, sometimes not.
I've found Windows Picture and Fax Viewer will try many times to read an
image. If I can get that to work, that one image is now in ram and can be
copied off. It's slow going.
I'm now taking what I can salvage and burning it to new DVDs. No more labels
for me!
mr.bill
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