How to recover MOST of scratched data discs

I lrn an old thecnique to how to recover damaged or scratched s
with some lost of data. In this case i have one borrowed game - MAX PAYNE 2
with a chunck of 4 mb lost with a scratch in 1 Install. Here we cover some
special thecniques of how to crte a full working from the scratched one.

First some tools will be needed:

1. Alcohol 120%
2. UltraISO
3. WIN7/XP/2000 (not tested on 95/98/me)
3. Small piece of cotton
4. Dry clner paper
5. Finally, oil for cooking.

First step - preparing the

Get the cotton and drop some water, start clning vertically the surface of .
Do it 3 times and dry the water with a piece of dry clner paper. With a new piece
of cotton, drop some oil for cooking and start to wet the surface like you are
washing the with the oil. Dry carefully now. Some particles of oil will stay on the
microsurface of the scrath. It's okay. Seems the oil helps the laser of the / driver
to rd the surface again. Sure this will work with small unrdable scratchs - some hard
scratchs loose parts of the surface of the where we have data and it's lost forever.
But if it is loosed try anyway. Whith this tip 80% of the small scratched 's coud be
recovered.

Second Step - testing the

With Alcohol 120% make an ISO - making wizard - and lets see if the app can
rd the loosed surface. In my case Alcohol 120% had recovered 60% of the data.
This is not enough. Have tryed other appz, they do not recover all the data. But the
/ driver laser CAN recover all data in this case. the data is still there, what we do?

third step - making the new

With the main copy system of explorer you can do it. Just crte one folder
with the same name of the label for future reference, and copy the content
to the folder. When the copy process find the scratch, in majority of the cases, it's
slow down the rding and will recover ALL loosed data.If not, it just tell you there's
an unrdable sector. In this case your is lost. But it's not my case, finally
explorer got all the data from the scratch and made a copy in the folder.
with the ultraISO, wrote the original label, drop the content of the folder and
save as Iso. You can Test the new just mounting the iso in the Alcohol 120%. In my
case i did ISO of the two discs from MAX PAYNE 2 and tested installing from the mounted
ISO. Works like a charm. I got the 4 mb lost again. So, I have ed the and now i
have a working copy from the scratched one.

Sounds too bizzarre, but works. Course you can jump the clning process and try to copy
the content with explorer. But in my case did not work without oil...