Originally Posted By: Taym
CD-ROM.

CDRoller seems to be slowly progressing. It recovered 10% of one of the CDs in almost 24Hrs. The good thing is that that 10% was in fact not accessible otherwise.
The bad thing is that a 10-day "extraction" process seems somewhat troubling to me. Still, I am inclined to let it go. Maybe speed will increase?

Thanks for all the recommendations guys.
Is this a desktop class DVD drive or something built into a laptop? This sort of continuous reading and retry may cause wear and stress on the drive.

If you can source a top grade desktop style CD drive you may find the process not only runs less slowly but may well recover a higher percentage of the data. The optics of the drive can have a significant impact on the raw track data recovery rate.