Title Edit : Discs, not Disks
Just Recently I came across a storageful of CDs (VCDs, DVDs, CD ROMs), Hard Drives, and floppy disks, from my workplace, containing files spanning from 1993-2019.
I had no problems recovering the files from the hard drives and floppy disks, because my office had kept an old rotting pc from 2004.
But some of the CDs refused to let me copy its files.
All the files are readable, just can't be copied.
And each of them has either one or two of these attributes:
- scratches
- fogs, a term I'm using to describe smudges that are on the surface of the CDs, can be felt with fingers, can't be wiped off, felt like if someone applied a superglue on a glass surface.
- clouds, a term I'm using to describe smudges that are BELOW the surface of the CDs, CANNOT be felt with fingers, can't be wiped off
I didn't know the technical terms for these damages, so I made up my own
How do I fix these types of damages? note that all the files are readable, just can't be copied.
Edit 1 : It's company that has been operating from 1979, and I've managed to digitized their other physical documents and memories. so, yay OCD.