From: "Mark" 

Thanks Frank. So except for the government (and probably Bill Gates), no
one is likely to be able to read anything off them and even at that it'd be
catch as catch can.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:410a59a1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> The data CD formats have sectors, with headers, like other
rotating-storage
> media.  They do *not* use the interleaved-and-offset
"burst-error-reduction"
> schemes of the original (redbook later) audio format.  So in theory.....
>
> In practice, lots of luck in glueing on the shattered piece at the proper
> diameter and angular orientation, balancing the resultant mess, etc., etc.
> Now, with about $80 million and a polar-coordinate  machine tool or
plotter,
> who knows what you could do?
>

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