Vista Reads a Bad CD-R Nicely!

Posted: 10-10-2006, 06:21 AM
RC1 - 5728. Tryed to access an old backup CD-R that is bad and Vista read it
just fine! The same disk will not read on Windows XP or with Roxio. I was
able to rescue all the data without having to use rescue software.
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Posted: 10-10-2006, 09:29 AM

"Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> RC1 - 5728. Tryed to access an old backup CD-R that is bad and Vista read
> it
> just fine! The same disk will not read on Windows XP or with Roxio. I was
> able to rescue all the data without having to use rescue software.

That is interesting to know, thankyou. I wonder what they can do where
others failed. I always thought a bad disc was a bad disc.


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Re: Vista Reads a Bad CD-R Nicely!
Posted: 10-10-2006, 11:24 AM
Hi,

Not sure exactly what is the underlying cause, but from what I've seen
(going back to very early builds) there is a higher fault tolerance in Vista
than XP. This gives it some ability to read data from corrupt media better
than previous win-versions.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

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> "Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B3AE55C8-FFC1-4E32-8402-1F2BA32605FD@microsoft.com...
>> RC1 - 5728. Tryed to access an old backup CD-R that is bad and Vista read
>> it
>> just fine! The same disk will not read on Windows XP or with Roxio. I was
>> able to rescue all the data without having to use rescue software.
>
>
> That is interesting to know, thankyou. I wonder what they can do where
> others failed. I always thought a bad disc was a bad disc.
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> Beck
> http://becs.wordpress.com
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