Carrier medium · Optical disc

CD-R and CD-RW

361 records recovered from CD-R and CD-RW, newest restorations first.

Risk
High
What goes wrong
Fading dye layers, which fail years before pressed discs.
How Lazarus reads it
Read in several drives, keeping the best copy of every sector, with a second copy sought when one exists.
  • 140 bit-exact
  • 115 complete
  • 26 reconstructed
  • 69 partial
  • 11 fragmentary