[mark]

I would not recomend using gel toothpaste! The abbrasive in it is much coarser than in regular toothpaste.

Breathing on a disc deposits halitosis and water (in a small quantity). The amount of water shouldn't do any damage but the halitosis could peel the information layer off. Check first by breathing on wallpaper. If it peels, then use the toothpaste, gel or regular, on your teeth. Then breath on the disk.

DL

[bluedanube]

Excellent tips, especially the Brasso.

[gdogg]

so would crest white strips do a better job?

lol

This post has been edited by gdogg: 28 November 2005 - 07:10 AM

[dirtwarrior]

All kidding aside I find that car polish will get the job done so you can make a copy.

If you drink three or four glasses of Absolute vodka BEFORE trying polishing a CD the whatever is in your mouth will be VERY like Alcohol, .....but you would probably lose interest in the actual CD polishing....


jaclaz
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I tried this. Well I didnt even care about the cd LOL

This post has been edited by dirtwarrior: 28 November 2005 - 12:03 PM

[EchoNoise]

[quote name='dirtwarrior' date='Nov 29 2005, 02:11 AM' post='426522']
All kidding aside I find that car polish will get the job done so you can make a copy.

If you drink three or four glasses of Absolute vodka BEFORE trying polishing a CD the whatever is in your mouth will be VERY like Alcohol, .....but you would probably lose interest in the actual CD polishing....


jaclaz
[/quote]

I tried this. Well I didnt even care about the cd LOL
[/quote]


LMFAO

[Mocht4R]

My cousin told me to do this, but my cd got fully erased after i tried the toothpaste trick. It was probably the kind of toothpaste i was using, and i was quite careless too. So remember folks! BE GENTLE!!!

[DigeratiPrime]

i wanted to mention this freeware that can help you identify where on the disc the scratch is:
dvdisaster
http://dvdisaster.be...en/index10.html

[Zxian]

@digiratiprime - Wow... that looks like a very very handy piece of software... *downloads*

Thanks!

[jaclaz]

Ditto as above.

Nice find!

jaclaz

[LLXX]

Be careful with extremely badly scratched discs, as in the high speed of rotation of most drives today (7000+ RPM) deep scratches can cause stress cracks and cause the disk to shatter under the force of the rotation.

[Mocht4R]

DigeratiPrime, awesome software!!! Thanks a lot.

This post has been edited by bms: 17 December 2005 - 04:01 PM

[sakurage]

Very nice tip! ill try that one on my cds..

[FaceMouth]

I've been gone for quite a while and it's good to be back here. I've just been doing other stuff that takes up a lot of my time. I got another scratch removing tip, but BE WARNED, I'm not sure if it will work with cd's.



You can use furniture polish to fix scratches in glass, I used it on my glasses. Maybe someone less lazy than me can do a bit of research and see if it will work for discs. If I get time I'll look it up, but there just aren't enough hours in a day

[coyotewrw]

DL, on Nov 19 2005, 08:10 PM, said:

I would not recomend using gel toothpaste! The abbrasive in it is much coarser than in regular toothpaste.

Breathing on a disc deposits halitosis and water (in a small quantity). The amount of water shouldn't do any damage but the halitosis could peel the information layer off. Check first by breathing on wallpaper. If it peels, then use the toothpaste, gel or regular, on your teeth. Then breath on the disk.

DL

Ummm... dude? If your breath can peel wallpaper, you've got WAAAAAY bigger problems than a few scratched CDs

[bledd]

use unstoppable copier with log mode enabled, then ask on here for the files that don't copy

[dirtwarrior]

Plastic polish works good, just use a circular motion when applying let dry to a haze remove excess with a circular motion, Then make a backup copy.

[jaclaz]

dirtwarrior, on Aug 20 2006, 02:30 PM, said:

Plastic polish works good, just use a circular motion when applying let dry to a haze remove excess with a circular motion, Then make a backup copy.

Actually it is better to always apply polish radially, i.e. at 90 degrees to the "grooves", at least in final steps.
Any mark that is radial or however not tangential to the groove tends to be interpreted correctly by the reader while marks and scratches in the same or near to same direction of th grooves tend to cause mis-readings.

http://www.mcgee-flu.../scratches.html

Quote

a scratch which runs at an angle to the track usually poses no problem for the tracking mechanism. Indeed a well adjusted CD player should be able to track a disk on which a 1mm strip of black tape has been stuck - providing it is stuck on radially. But if a scratch is approximately tangential or circumferential, it can obscure the track below for enough time that the tracking or error correction cannot cope.

A complete guide:
http://en.chinabroad.../271@125577.htm


jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: 20 August 2006 - 07:52 AM

[EchoNoise]

Good ol' disc wizard works for me for those times that i accidently bumped my xbox360 and circled my disc

But I got pads in my 360 now

This post has been edited by undeadsoldier: 20 August 2006 - 10:45 PM

[RJM]

Or a comercial product that comes in 3 grades of coarseness.

http://www.modernpla...sticpolish.html

This post has been edited by RJM: 21 August 2006 - 11:56 AM

[FaceMouth]

I have to agree with using any recovery software prior to physically polisihing the disc. This is of course, I hope for all of us, common sense. I'll have to check out digiprime's recommendation, as I constantly seem to save data on a few scratched DVD-RW's I have. Yes, I should thrwo them away, but it's just my nature to consistantly make the same bad errors in judgement. I don't learn the hard way, I learn the very, very, very hard way. The reason for recommendaing toothpaste was that it is something everyone, hopefully, has around the house. Wile brasso and other products may work better, I personally don't have these things lying around. If I'm going ot spend money on something to repair a disk, it may as well be something designed for hte task. I'm not knowcking the suggestions in any way, just giving my personal view on things. I still laugh at this thread every time I read it, not that it isn't hlepful, just that when I posted it I thought it would be removed for being in the wrong section. It was also one of my first poests, and seeing how people are constatntly being told to search for answers and warned about posts, I was unsure whether to even post this. I understand the warnings, I agree with them, I have rarely had to ask anything myself, as searching will eventually find 90% of whatever someone asks. It just amazes me how much input and how long this thread has added to. Guess you just never know what type of information really interests people.



enough of my bablbling, hopefully I'll get more involved with this site again. I think I wore myself out on tearing apart and rebuilding windows software.



Take care everyone