Question about disk drives

[michael8881]

Can the quality of a disk drive be reduced? For example, if I rip a cd to my computer, then put a finger print or a scratch on the lens, then rip the same cd, will the second rip be of lower qualitly or is it an all or nothing type of thing?

 

[JlCollins005]

i would think once it got to the point while copying the cd it wouldnt beable to read the rest if u marked it up that bad

 

[michael8881]

Anybody know for sure?

 

[The_Other_One]

CDs have varing degrees of error correction. Should the drive encounter a read error, typically it can be resolved. If it can't, the you get an error. However, the quality should never decrease. With digital data it works or doesn't.

 

[michael8881]

Thank you.

 

[cqqpp]

re:

Sorry,I dont know