Recently one of my data CD became faulty and I didn't have any backup of those data. I lost all the data. Sigh. I surfed the net for solution just find nothing could be done to the damaged CD. But I found an interesting product that can prevent damaged CD/DVD including game CD. It is a thin tranparent film you can paste it on the readable side of the CD/DVD; it will protect the CD/DVD from being scratched and damaged. The price is SGD$4 for each film. I am wondering if you would buy a film for 4 bucks for each of your favourite games CD, your data CD/DVD, your movie DVD and your original software installation CD? With the film on the CD you can still play it without any glitch or loss of quality.
you could've just make a backup copy.....
yeah man, I should have done that. But how many of us really backup a CD using another CD? I think a lot of times people don't even backup data from their hard drive into CD. Imagine you are constantly working on your harddisk and the contents keep getting updated. And then you have to backup them in CD from time to time, the first time you backup is fine, the second time you will not know which part to backup, as in you may have backed them up the last time, but not so sure whether the files with the same names could have been updated or modified.
making another cd is cheaper then that transparent film
I rather save it at another backup disc and hdd
hmmm, yeah maybe you are right, it is safer and cheaper to backup data in another CD. On the other hand, i think it is still worth buying the tranparent film for original software CD, original movie DVD and original gaming CD. Because they are not able to be duplicated and they are such a dear collection to many of us. What do you all think? :-D
i remember a time when my ra2 disk cracked in the center.... and my zootycoon disk killed itself...