Ahah! No it's actually from a report my father saw in the news I think. I know there's powerful programs or gear that law enforcement can use out there not available to the general public, but to what point can they retrieve stuff I don't know. Because if you can program something that says "ig...

I heard that police can retrieve even fragments of data from damaged discs, however I don't know what they're using.
Thanks for your answers.

Hi, I have a friend's CD here that is very damaged at the beginning, it can't be read even with data retrieving softwares. But he has tracks on it that are the only copy remaining, and since it's a music CD I was wondering if there's anything that could bypass the beginning of the CD and go straight...