Old CD-R issue

[Greg Ashe]

I pulled a couple of 20 year old CD-R off the shelf and tried to access the contents on several optical drives (not 20 years old!) with no success.

Has anyone come across this issue? And a solution...

Gregory Ashe

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[quigle...@gmail.com]

Hi Greg

I have come across this too even contacted one of the manufacturers of the CD-R’s.

Their reply was that the optical dyes used in the cd-r are not meant for long term storage and degrade over time. Unfortunately they were not able to suggest a fix and I had to write off the contents.

Never did find a solution.

Regards

Barry Quigley

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[Greg Ashe]

Interesting observation

I can probably save some shelf space in that case!

I wonder will USB drives "degrade" over time?!

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[Paul de Lacy]

There were different standards 25 years ago - CD-R, CD+R and CD-RW
Modern CD/DVD Drives should be able to read from all standards but perhaps not...

Paul

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[Chris Reina]

Hi folks,

I remember doing this back in the day… clearly can’t guarantee anything, but I remember it did work for CDs that were left in direct sunlight.

Heavily scratched ones - it probably won’t work for.

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/repair-scratched-cd.htm

Worth a try - at your own risk! Be sure to let any liquid, wax, etc. dry fully before trying to read.

> Unrelated subject - For those that have spinning hard drives and can’t read data - I swear this works sometimes… a few hours in the refrigerator slows the read speed and you can recover data. (NOT the freezer however - too cold and will cause condensation)

The stuff we used to do, eh? ;-)

Chris

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