On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:56:24 -0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

Who in the world would bother to attempt to retrive data from broken
cds.

Depends entirely on the percieved value of the data. You might be
quite tempted to put quite a lot of effort into recovering the
winning numbers for the next 100 million Euro Millions draw for
example.

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Cheers
Dave.