Reading a busted CD

[Funkywood]

Since I was forced to move from my previous place in North London my car has been in the hands of my parents. Going back last weekend I discover the cd with all my mp3s on not in the cd player where I expected but on the floor with a chunk missing out of it.

Now some of the songs are hard to get hold of, some I don't even know what they're called. The thing is, even with a lopsided CD, the Kenwood CD player in my car somehow managed to play most of these but trying to copy the files my PC gives a CRC error.

Is there anything in Windows XP I can change to say sod the crc error, copy it anyway? Or is there something about the car stereo that makes it more fault tolerant? If so where can I find a PC CD-Rom that can read crippled CDs? Would a data recovery service charge a load for this?

[thunderlizard]

At first I thought you were talking about a Busted CD, and you were missing your fix of "Year 3000" and "What I go to school for".

If the "missing chunk" is just a deep scratch, you could try the toothpaste technique.

[Billy-Bob]

You can do a raw copy to disk and use Audcity to edit the file. Either a manual edit or copy and paste similar track pieces