Researching The Hack: Rips And Tears

You can very carefully tape a ripped disk back together with thin transparent tape. Make sure to only put tape on one side at a time. Once you've gotten all the data you can off one side, you can remove the tape and repair the other side. As before, it is imperative that you don't let the tape get onto the side of the disk which the drive will be reading, or you could throw off your drive's read/write head, and may get sticky stuff on it, too.