DVDs are portable information storage units made to be played by a disc player. However, if the back of the disc is bad or the DVD is corrupt, you may experience read errors. These make it impossible for the disc to work as it should, so how to copy and recover files from a DVD with read errors?
Without a doubt, burning a CD with several files (images, documents, videos or music) is very simple, and it was a very common method for installing programs. However, although today the use of Pendrives or USBs is more common, for some things a CD is still more recommended. Thanks to the optical files they have, they make it possible to run programs together with the equipment.
In fact, there is a wide variety of programs to burn CDs and DVDs in Windows that make it easier for us to save information on them. But if they are scratched or corrupted, their proper functioning can be seriously damaged, but there is a solution for that problem.
How to recover files from a DVD with read errors
If the disk is completely unusable due to read errors but its content is very important, you can recover the files. DVD or CD reading errors are generally due to the disc being mishandled on the side that is read by the computer.
So that means you can fix them just as easily by doing a disk cleanup (which we’ll talk about later). And by making use of a disk data recovery program, you can find several of these by browsing the Internet, they are easy to use and very effective.
Tips to recover files from a DVD that has read errors
To recover files that are on the disk with read errors, you can choose to clean them, insert them into the computer, and run the recovery program. Run the program while the disk is inside your computer, and once in it, select the disk to recover its files.
It is one of the most visible options, so there will be no major problem doing it. Generally, the program itself will create a folder in a specific location where it will save all the data it recovers.
However, it may also give you the option to choose the place where the recovered data will be saved. It is highly recommended that you choose the location yourself, and that this be a unique folder with an identifiable title. If you don’t, at least make sure you know the location where the program saves the files by default.
This way you will know where to look for what is recovered from your DVD with reading errors thanks to the program used. And on the other hand, it is possible that if you applied a good cleaning to your CD, it is now possible to enjoy the content that is inside it.
However, we must be careful as there are times when the problem is that the DVD / CD drive does not read any disc because it has a defect that we must repair. In other words, in that case the problem would not be the disk as such.
How to copy files from a DVD with read errors
To copy files from a DVD that has reading errors, you must have carried out all the steps we mentioned in advance to recover files.
Once all the data on your DVD has been recovered or extracted, it will be at your disposal and you can copy it to any other device freely.
How to clean a DVD
Since most read errors are due to the state of the disk, cleaning them can solve many problems. To do a superficial cleaning, a delicate and fine cloth handkerchief will suffice, which cannot scratch our DVD anymore. And also water to wet it and gently pass it over the surface to be read.
On the other hand, if we want to review a little more to make sure, we can do the same by using generic alcohol instead of water. There is alcohol specifically designed to be used with electronic components, if we can buy any of these, let’s do it.
On the other hand, there is the so-called cleaning liquid or simply CD cleaner, which is especially useful for cleaning and correcting scratches on CDs. With this, the percentage of probability that your CD is completely clean is higher, and you could very well use it again normally. Especially in the case that you need to record on the same CD several times, since it is a rewritable disc.