Skopin FileCopier

Skopin FileCopier is a software which allows you to copy files of any type from broken media (damaged CD/DVD disks, flash, floppy, hard disks).

You can also use it to copy files through the local network area with an unstable connection. It is extremely compact – 72 kilobytes.

The program reads the file until it seeks on a bad sector. In case of any read error it asks you what to do the next: skip unreadable sectors and how many or read this sector from another copy of this file. Note, reading from scratched CD-ROMs will take some time because of specific driver functionality. If you copy a file with skipped sectors you will receive destination file with fragments filled with null bytes. In many cases, this is not a problem to play some kind of files, such as video (avi, jpeg, dat). In the case of documents (doc, txt) you can lose several paragraphs. Even if you copy the damaged zip-file, the probability of working capacity of a greater part of files containing in it is very great. However, the most important function is reading bad fragments from another copy of file - is has gained very much many people. Now it is possible, not caring about safety of documents, to write their two copies even on a bad diskette - the probability that Skopin FileCopier will restore 100 % an initial file is very great.