Read Latest Entries..: (Post #17) by coby on Feb 18 2007, 05:53 AM. (Line Breaks Removed)
Plastic polish is proberly the best. I have use this one for Scratches (and other things such as dirt), and it seems to work on my cases, but i think the most important you need to have to best CD/DVD reader to read the Scratched CD/DVDcoby
1) Use a yellow highlight marker and draw it over the scratched area. Careful, dry tips can scratch the disc. 2) Sprayable “silicone oil” - sold in Europe as “cockpit spray”. I read it has a good affinity to the hydrophobic plastic material and a similar refractional index, which is the point! Similarly, silicon spray will work. It should look like a mirror finish, but if you use too much the disc will be unreadable. Try spraying a tiny bit on and rubbing it over the surface with paper towel - you’ll see it ‘hide’ the scratches as you rub. If you put too much on, it comes off pretty easily with eye glasses cleaner or other mild glass cleaning agent. 3) Toothpaste, with its abrasive particles can work their way into the scratches. Use a small pointer to rub it into the scratches to bring them closer to the surface and more even with the rest of the disc. Just make sure to clean off the disc when done. You don’t want toothpaste flying around your DVD drive. 4) Try cooling the disc. If that doesn’t work, try heating it. This trick will often help you get some more sectors read. 5) Some have had success with car wax or car polish. Worth a shot if all else fails.
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actually i've read about the toothpaste technique from some other site before. the technique only works on light scratches, those that you can barely see. deep scratches, however, will make the cd/dvd less readable, thus making it useless. i've tried that but it doesn't work.
you didn't mention metal polisher. i've tried that. they said it works but it didn't work in mine.
i don't know about the other stuff. and certainly that thing you said that can only be bought in england, doesn't help those that are not in england.
interesting and helpful, thank you for sharing =D i'll keep this in mind if any of my discs get scratched. are there any other ways apart from those already mentioned?
I've heard about the toothpaste, but not the others. I haven't actually had to try either of the ones listed so I wouldn't know which works best. I sort of wonder how it all works though because I always thought memory was lost when a scratch was on the DVD but I guess that's just how it is read. Would that mean that you can create a DVD out of toothpaste?
a disc (DVD and CD) has a protective plastic coating on the readable side. it's that thats gets scratched... However if it is deep enough it can penetrate that and get to the fragile bits underneath.
Scratches (and other things such as dirt) oftenly redirect and/or block the laser so that it cannot get to the data layer of a CD.
I'm pretty curious about this. I keep all my DVDs/CDs in it's case so if you do that you won't ever have to resort to using methods of lifting the scratches. Well I suppose as a last resort these would be ok attempts, but I wouldn't put anything on a valuable DVD such as collector's edition or other.
I just recieved a scratched copy of a dvd and wanst sure of the correct method to fix it. SO thanks for posting up this tutorial it doesn't seem like it will be to hard to do. It also doesn't require a lot of money like some other methods i have seen do. I went around and asked a store who repairs dvd's and he said it would be like $15 and for that price i could just buy a new one. But thanks again for this method.
Plastic polish is proberly the best. I have use this one for Scratches (and other things such as dirt), and it seems to work on my cases, but i think the most important you need to have to best CD/DVD reader to read the Scratched CD/DVD
I haven't had to repair any of my DVDs (the advantage of keeping them in their original cases) but I've repaired dozens of scratched CDs with Brasso. The idea behind most of the ideas - toothpaste, metal compounds, Brasso, etc. - is that you're buffing away a very thin layer of the disc's plastic coating. This lightens the scratch or removes it completely if it's a light, surface scratch to begin with.
The trick with Brasso - other than making sure to use the stuff in a well ventilated area (hehe) - is to buff in the direction of the scratch. You have to be persistent with some scratches. You could buff, clean up, buff again and repeat a few times or more before you actually see any results. But, what do you have to lose? Nothing, considering that if you can't repair the disc you'll have to buy a new one anyway.
I started with a throwaway CD that I didn't want (think trial CD-ROMs that show up in your mail). That way, if I messed up, it wasn't a big deal.
So the toothpaste will work if I do it over and over again?
I haven't had to repair any of my DVDs (the advantage of keeping them in their original cases) but I've repaired dozens of scratched CDs with Brasso. The idea behind most of the ideas - toothpaste, metal compounds, Brasso, etc. - is that you're buffing away a very thin layer of the disc's plastic coating. This lightens the scratch or removes it completely if it's a light, surface scratch to begin with.
The trick with Brasso - other than making sure to use the stuff in a well ventilated area (hehe) - is to buff in the direction of the scratch. You have to be persistent with some scratches. You could buff, clean up, buff again and repeat a few times or more before you actually see any results. But, what do you have to lose? Nothing, considering that if you can't repair the disc you'll have to buy a new one anyway.
I started with a throwaway CD that I didn't want (think trial CD-ROMs that show up in your mail). That way, if I messed up, it wasn't a big deal.
How about programs that make images of scratched DVD-s... I'm not sure but there is something like Exact Audio Copy or something. I have one DVD i would really like to save couse i have lvl 92 barbarian on it and that suks couse i cant copy it back to hdd
well i have some of these techinques and they do not work if you dont want to do go throw these steps you should keep your discs in a case by doing this you will be saving yourself money and the anger of not having your favorite movie to watch cause it has a scratch on it.
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