How to Repair Damaged CD Or Recover Data from Scratch CD

Are you looking to get data back from Scratched disc ? Are you frustrated every time when another disc will be added to scratched discs and you cant take a back up of that disc. This disc may contain your favorite songs, pictures, files, games, videos or any important files. Still you can take backup all data from scratch CD. Here i am showing you the way how to make Scratched CD working.

Home Remedy :
here’s an easy home remedy, which might give you the desired results. Rub a small amount of toothpaste on the scratch and polish the CD with a soft cloth and any petroleum-based polishing solution (like clear shoe polish). Squirt a drop of Brasso and wipe it with a clean cloth.

Technology to the rescue:
There are many softwares available on the net, which enable the recovery of the CD data.
Bad Copy Pro is one such software, which can be used to recover destroyed data and files from a range of media. Just a few clicks is all it requires to recover the disc from almost all kind of damage situation,be it corrupted, lost data, unreadable or defective.

DiskDoctors is another popular company, which offers both software and solutions to recover data from a scratched CDs and DVDs.

General Tips:
Always wipe the CD from the center outward with straight spoke-like strokes. Wiping CDs in circles will create more scratches.

Mozilla Firefox Auto-Shutdown Add-On – Shutdown Computer automatically

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most used web browser in the web industry. Basically Firefox is famous because of its capability of add-ons and extend the functionality in web browser. I cam across the Auto-Shutdown add-on from Mozilla Firefox and i think its a very useful in some cases. You can set the time for shutdown your computer automatically without waiting.

This may be useful in case if you are downloading and want to go outside for some work than you can set the time in this and it will shutdown automatiocally after defined peroid of time. Also you can set the time for shutdown computer if your computer is in ideal mode.Very much useful. Try it your self. Below is the link for add-on.

Auto Shutdown addon Firefox addon

Rupee Symbol Font for Computer

In this font system the $ ( Shift + 4 ) sign is replaced by Rupee sign (Indian Rupee symbol.svg). and " ` " sign is replaced by the Dollar ( $) sign. The font styles are based on the very famous fonts "Arial", and "Times New Roman"


To download the font click on following link

click this link:- IndusRupee (Arial Style):


Times IndusRupee Roman : (Times New Roman style):

Note: keep in mind that this symbol will be displayed on computers only where the aforesaid font is installed, so it is important that we spread the news about any such development. Also more efforts should be made for creating more such fonts.



How to use?

How to Use the Indian Rupee Symbol in Microsoft Office

Download the Font click on above links
Install the font. (Copy the Font to Control Panel -> Fonts Folder)
Change the Font from the default (Times New Roman/ Arial/ Calibri) to IndusRupee.
Type the Rupees Symbol in Microsoft Word through the Shift +4


The process can be tweaked so that you can type in any font in MS Word yet you can get the Rupees symbol:

In MS Office 2002

Select the symbol (ie. Just like you do while copy pasting anything)
Click on Tools -> Autocorrect
In the Replace Text Box type in Rs.
Click on Add -> Ok

In MS Office 2007/ 2010

1.If you want to add a formatted text entry, open the document that contains the text that is formatted the way that you want, and select the Rupee Symbol.
2.Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options.
3.Click Proofing.
4.Click AutoCorrect Options.
5. In the Replace Text Box type in Rs. (You may also need to change the formatting stle from “Plain Text” to “Formatted Text”)
6. Click on Add -> Ok
Microsoft Excel
go to setting ----- > control panel ------> regional & lang option ------> customize ------> then click currency tab
Put currency symbol as " $ " click ok
Open excel
go to format cell (Ctrl + 1 command)
click to Number tab ------- > select currency as " $ " & ok it
select fonts as IndusRupee.ttf
Rupee symbol on IBM Lotus Notes and Symphony

The given font is working on IBM Lotus Notes(Mail Client) and Symphony
(Office productivity tool).

In Notes client application
1. Download the font.
2. Past the font to C:\lotus\notes\jvm\lib\fonts directory
3. In Font drop down box, Select "IndusRupees" Font

In Symphony application

1. In Font field, select "New Style..."

2. Then in Style tab, Name field, Enter "Rupee"
3. Then go to "Font" tab, In Font drop down box , Select "IndusRupee".
4. In the New Document, Font file shows " Rupee"


Linux Users

Linux users, please copy the file to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Rupee/IndusRupee vrsn 2.ttf
and log-off & log-in to see this font available everywhere.