Never ever use a ball-point pen to label a CD.  I learned the hard
way, damaging a CD so that I can't read a Quicktime and AVI file I
wrote to it at a video editing station and didn't back up anywhere
else.  Does anyone know of a utility (preferably free, or if not,
highly recommended) that could possibly save as much of my movies as
possible?  Otherwise I have days of video editing to redo.  THANKS!

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Clarification of Question by sidesway-ga on 20 Aug 2004 07:53 PDT

P.S. I have Windows XP Home Edition.

Hi Sidesway,

I've been using a program that does the trick and I'm sure you'll love
it too. It's a free, stand-alone program that is very easy to use. By
it's name alone, you know this program means business:

UNSTOPPABLE COPIER 1.8
Author:  Roadkil
Date:    2004-07-23 
License: Freeware
Price: 	 FREE 
OS: 	 Windows All
Size: 	 45 KB

This program is great for recovering files from scratched CD's or
defective floppy/hard disks.

MajorGeeks.com
Drive Utilities - Unstoppable Copier 1.8
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2623.html

You may also get this and other back-up and recovery programs through this link:

SoftPedia.com - Unstoppable Copier 1.8
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/2/13-2-54.shtml

I've used used this several times in the past and successfully copied
physically damaged CDs that are impossible to copy under ordinary
method.

Search strategy:

Personal knowledge.

For other related sites regarding this software you may click on these links:

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I hope this helps you. If you have a question, please feel free to
post your clarification before rating this and I'll attend to you as
soon as possible. Thanks for asking.

Best regards,
Feilong

A shareware named "BadCopy" may help in most CD recovery cases.

http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/