Copying a damaged (but playable) CD - HELP!!!

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savasca@vcu.edu wrote in news:1127686344.587808.168850
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> To sum it up quickly, I've done something stupid and need some help.
> I've got a very rare audio CD ca. 1986 that I keep in storage for safe
> keeping and play a CDR copy that I made. Well, the CDR that I made has
> been damaged - the outter edge of the disc is missing a "chunk."
>
> The disc still plays fine in an audio CD player (I've been listening to
> it in my DVD player just now) since the chunk of the disc that broke
> off didn't "cut into" the recorded section of the disc.
>
> I'm trying to re-copy it from the damaged CDR to a new one (and to my
> hard drive for safe keeping), but every time I put it into my CDR
> drive, the disc isn't recognized/read (computer acts like the drive is
> empty). As I stated above, the recorded section of the disc is fine,
> the damaged "chunk" is on the outter edge.
>
> I'm using Windows ME and Adaptec Easy CD Creator to try and copy this
> disc. Does anybody have any suggestions on salvaging this recording?
> Normally I wouldn't care, but the original is in storage about 2.5
> hours from my home and it's an awful long way to drive to get a new CDR
> made.
>
> Thanks!!
>
Can you feed and record the audio from the audio player to the computer ?