There is nothing more frustrating then accidentally deleting important documents or files by accidentally hitting Shift+Del or emptying the recycle bin without checking what is inside of it. In most ...

Reader William has a problem: I have a lot of home videos that I've meticulously edited and made into DVDs, but I also stored the raw MPEG videos on data DVDs. Unfortunately, the DVDs are beginning to ...

I have a MacBook Pro and I have an external SuperDrive. I'm trying to get some data off of old DVD-Rs that I burned in college almost 2 decades ago. Well, they've deteriorated a bit. The data in the ...

Sounds daft, but can you actually see the binary data on the disk through /dev (or whatever you pesky mac users have as /dev). If that has data on it then you might have a few more options ...