What can be done to salvage a bad CD?
 

I have been given a VCD from a friend which is bad. I can play it in xine by skipping over the bad sections, but there are several of them and it's a lot of hassle. I cannot copy the contents of the CD-ROM because of a number of disk errors. Is there anything that can be done to try to salvage the contents? Like, I know cdparanoia can attempt to fix errors, but that only seems to work on audio CDs. This is a VCD, so it's basically a CD-ROM, and cdparanoia doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with it.

The VCD came from India and it's quite unlikely that I will be able to replace it.

Have you thought of one of those resurfacing / cleaning gadgets. They cost about $19.99 (U.S.). You apply the liguid on the CD then spin it in the unit for a minute or so... Supposed to work.

Just a suggestion...

Gotta be worth a try, thanks.

hey u are in UK....
else i would have recommeded u a cream which we use here to clean those bad CDs

Yes, I am in the UK. Would you tell me the name of the product anyway; maybe it's available here, who knows? Thanks.

yes that product is

"MIN CREAM"

made in India by

"Reckitt Benckiser"

this is the last option to me if i get some bad CDs

regards