CDCheck Alternatives

Low cost utility to recover data from damaged, scratched, or otherwise defective discs. Highly specialized but still easy to use to read damaged CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray or HD-DVD media. Free version has some limited functionality but is worth it to attempt data recovery.

QuickSFV integrates into the Windows Explorer shell and makes it very easy to verify files. Just double-click on the SFV file and QuickSFV does the rest. QuickSFV also understands several other file verification formats including CRC, CSV, and CKZ.

Simple hash validator allowing to compare two files, generate the checksum of a file and verify if a hash matches a file.

checksum is an easy-to-use, no-nonsense BLAKE2, SHA1 & MD5 hashing program for Windows, capable of creating & verifying hashes of files and folders, even whole drives, with just one or two clicks. It is robust, lightning fast, intuitive, and completely customizable.

Reads disk files or directories and stops on the first read error.

There are two versions: a command-line perl script and a Java GUI.

VSO-Inspector is a free add-on to report various information about your hardware configuration. Using this freeware, you can check the listed cd and dvd readers and writers connected to your computer, check the firmware used.

RapidCRC is a tool for Windows for checking and creating CRC32 and MD5 checksums; this comprises:

The goal of this program is to recover as much data as possible from damaged, poorly burned or scratched CDs or DVDs.

This software allows to generate MD (Message Digest) and SHA hashes from a file or files or files in a directory. Checksum is an value calculated from a content of file by special algorithm. You can also verify the file integrity of the downloaded document or program.

Suite of tools for file fixity (data protection for long term storage) using redundant error correcting codes, hash auditing and duplications with majority vote, all in pure Python.