Hi Guys.

I've been tripping through some of my old HD's which were lying under my bed, and I have found most of my recent projects.

HR Projects, Hampden, P39, Claude, Typhoon, and Mossie. My B29, and Catalina seem to be lost, as are all my WOB archives. Good job I posted the site when I did or all that lot would have been lost.

I have some very old CD's, which should have stuff on them, but for some reason they will not run, despite being clean, and no scratches. Is there any cleaver software to read these damaged CD's?

I've recovered quite a few family pictures, from these drives too, but again my backup CD's are damaged.

BadCopy is really good.

CheckCD

Image Recall 3

CD Recovery ToolBox (and I think there is free version of that now!)

Also, as a cheap trick...if you have Nero....and use BackItUp....its brilliant ripping complete from damaged discs. then create your back up, and dump back out again.

Glad to hear that John. I'm sure the utilities suggested will get some of the stuff off the CDs. I've had that that problem before now and was able to rescue stuff.

Hampden ... now there's something!



Moggy DCM

Hi John,

Ok I am being selfish as ever but the Hampden is good news not just for Moggy. When we left the subject a year or two ago the "wireframe" was beginning to look right after we had decided the fuselage was no more than 3 foot wide amazingly. I don't know why as it was not a particularly brilliant plane, but I do have a soft spot for the old "Flying Suitcase/Flying Tadpole/Flying Pan. Add to that the fact that Ray suggested at the time he might well be able to turn the Hamp into a Maryland and a Baltimore and you get three aircraft I like for the price of one and IM can skin them without too many problems in spite of the loss of profile sites (I hope).

Also, I have given Mike some pretty detailed markings for Mosquito FBIV but at the moment I gather the problem is finding a model that is half way accurate so if your HR Mossie has been found even better. The icing on the cake would be a "Car Door" Typhoon but perhaps I am pushing my luck. Did your find your HR P-40, as that would be an absolute gem?

Glad to hear things are looking better.

All the best.

Peter

i remember you started a D.H.2 Col, is that gone??? if not what was left to do on it???

Hi John

That is some good news at least!

I’ve also had problems reading burned CD’s, what software did you use to burn them?

In my case I used Easy CD Creator and DirectCD and when I didn’t have that program installed on my new PC the CD’s were unreadable.
So I installed a reader program called Roxio UDF Reader which solved the problem.

I’m you’ll be able to read the CD’s somehow!

Good luck!

Cheers

Thanks for the advice guys. I'll be downloading those suggested tools and see what happens.

The DH2 is probably OK, but it was in a very basic stage, so it's not a great loss.

But, I have this very early WWI recon plane in the works. Only a middle detail model, and no prop.

Hi Col,

About your CD's .. its some facts to know
They can be not readable cause a physical defect or by a bad burning.
Sometime it can be also cause the CD drive .. able to read some CD's and not others.
First be sure your CD's are clean of dirt and don't have scratches.
If you have scratches on the label side (in fact the most important side of the CD) it's not possible to repair .. so you can add it at your freesbees collection
If it's the other side .. it's possible to repair if it's little scratches.
If it's bad burning .. or datas out by the wear of time ... you can try to read the CD with some softwares
I like use ISO Buster.. give some good results.

OFF

oooh! i could use that as a base for some eindecker types i've had in mind!!! any chance of putting some air in those tires??? or should i

Hi FlyRight.

I can just hear the sound of torn canvas, snapping wood, and bent metal [OK there's not much :D], as you twist my XI Bleriot monoplane, into something else.

This model, is only the distance model, for the main one, which I've not built yet, but if you want to play with it, I'd better finish it off and add RS and Normals.

aha! didn't realize that was the m.3dz but if you ever do the main 3dzs its practically a Fokker/Platz now...

btw am a firm believer in just using flash drives for backing up files if your doing anything like that...screw copying to CDs, waiste of time for the simular cost as a container of discs!!!