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2003-06-19 06:27:22

me got a cracked disc  its a clean crack  other words no chunks or peices are missing, eac and cdex decided not to help me. the crack goes from out to in about 3/4 of the disc. the crack is at a angle , looks like a blade of grass in a breeze just a slight curve. since this is a clean crack would superglue and the toothpaste trick work?? i can still buy the cd cdnow has it for $13 but i already paid for it once 
if i pic is needed to see how bad it is , i can take one tomrrow. any help would be appreciated, even to say "hey goof you cant fix it" lol

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Reply #1 – 2003-06-19 06:50:11

I cannot think of any way you can "erase" the crack.  You may have to go out and buy another.   

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Reply #2 – 2003-06-19 06:53:54

Well, first we would have to see the picture to be sure, but I think you are screwed.
Why? Have you ever broke a porcelain figure and glued it back together? Well, if you did, you would know that even if it is held together now, the cracks are still VISIBLE. With CDs is the same thing. The laser beam tries to SEE the pits on the CD surface, which is protected by a layer of plastic. Any crack would distort the "vision" of the laser, and, since it goes all the way through, the toothpaste trick will do nothing to fix it.

So...I think you have to evaluate if such piece of music is valuable enough for you to buy it again.

BTW, I had a CD which had a little radial crack that ran for like 5mm from the inner hole. It screwed the first track but the rest were fine.
As the CD was like this when I opened, the store gave me my money back.

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Reply #3 – 2003-06-19 09:18:16

I borrowed and ripped CD with a crack once (lots of sync errors in the crack area, but not audible to me) and my experience tells me that you are out of luck if the crack shows any geometry but a strict radial one (that was my case) ... remember that just a slight shift/deformation in the cracked area (especially if it is as big as yours) will shift the groove (which is in the µm area) by several widths ... impossible to get an accurate copy with normal hardware means ... a data recovery lab could do the trick but i doubt that this would make any sense if the CD could be re-bought for only 13 bucks ... if it was a data cd with, let's say, very important business/financial data and no available backup, the situation would be different, of course.

That's one argument I always present against copy protection mechanisms ... if a (legally bought) CD is damaged in a way that errors cannot be recovered, you are lucky if you have been able to create a backup copy directly after buying it ... because (against the music business' general opinion) stamped audio CD's are NOT indestructible ...

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Reply #4 – 2003-06-19 13:23:25

thank you very much for the info

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Reply #5 – 2003-06-19 22:31:34

A CD with a crack can explode into the drive, quite dangerous. It can blow away the trail and shatter through the whole room.

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Reply #6 – 2003-06-19 22:55:40

Do you want to see how a cd with cracks can explode? look there...

OMG!

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Reply #7 – 2003-06-19 23:05:32

[span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%']BOOOOOOOM!!!!![/span] 
You know, that's what may happen if you put bad music into your player... 

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Reply #8 – 2003-06-19 23:43:54

I had a CD (not Audio CD) which had a little radial crack that ran from inner hol. About 4 cm. I limited CD drive speed to 4x. Inserted disc and drive couldn't read it. I ejected it, squeezed and bent CD. Nothing happened. I tried squeezing and bending about 15 tiimes and finaly pits came to their right places and I could very slow copy CD. If there will be some broken files, or it is a big file such a movie you can use some CD recovery tools on them. But remember to set speed to <4x. And use it on your own risk, since many drives despite speed limiting, use higher speeds while initializing CD.

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Reply #9 – 2003-06-20 01:51:06

While I wouldn't suggest *that* particular method of repair, I can state that I have ripped cracked CDs with my CD-R without any problems (even sync errors, though it did have to retry some sectors).  Have tried with a fairly bad crack, too.

What I use:

TDK Velo-CD 12X10X32 CDRW
Audiograbber 1.82, dynamic sync width at no more than 14X (for safety sake, don't want an explosion).

Not sure if it's the firmware revisions that have made the drive more capable of reading scratched CDs, but I can state that I have successfully ripped CDs under those conditions.  Perhaps it's not the software, but instead your CD-ROM which is having the most difficulty reading the disc.  I would suggest trying a friend's CD-ROM, just in case.

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Reply #10 – 2003-06-20 03:18:16

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TDK Velo-CD 12X10X32 CDRW

Well, IIRC that drive is a rebaged Plexy, back when Plextor was good...

For a while I tought that Pio2001 was kidding, until I saw that picture...
Good thing I gave up on my cracked CD quickly.

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Reply #11 – 2003-06-20 03:30:43

it is a audio cd "ozzy, no more tears" im just gonna buy it again after i get back from cedar point, its not worth any of my drives or my health.

my drives are:

tdk velo 12x10x32x

lg 16x dvd-rom