Repairing damaged cd

You take it to your local video shop. They charge like 5 bucks and they normaly have one of those machines that cleans the scratch's outta cd's/ DVD's. Works for my little bro's Xbox Games

 

is it a music cd or a game??? if its music rip it, dont copy it..

if its a game try a cd cleaner. "try another burner/ some lasers read better then others"

if its an old game, id download a torrent to replace it..its all good u did buy the game, your copys just fked.

 

try cleaning it with metho, or there are methods using toothpaste that can work too

 

polish it with brasso or a similar very fine cutting compound then try

 

My mate always sprays the discs with lynx, he recons the alcohol cleans them.. Seems to always do the job...

 

You can try the methods listed but ive tried them before and only fix very minor scratches. Pretty sure JB hifi repair discs for you for a few bucks

 

I use standard car polish on my data dvd's.

If the scratch is really bad I use cut & polish.

Fair bit of rubbing but it does the job

BUT... if its the data side thats scratched then your lookin at a dead disk

 

I thought toothpaste wrecked the disc?

 

toothpaste is pretty much a fine cutting compound from what i remember being told about this way to fix a disk, so it works like car polish i'd guess?

so i doubt it would wreck the disk, but just make sure you give it a good clean if you use that method with some metho or my personal favorite a KFC wipe and a tissue ( might give your drive fresh breath otherwise ).
I still think the professional disk cleaners at your local JB or video shop will be your best chance at getting that data off

 

Depends on where the damage is:

On the Clear Plastic Backing? - Use a car polish or toothpaste. Apply a thin layer, polish out in cicular motions towards the outer track of the disc. (DO NOT go around in big circles around the disc, head outwards from the center in a swirly motion)

On the foil(metalic top layer where the writing goes)? - Your stuffed. Any data thats on that track is pretty stuffed, depending on the scratch location, you can recover the data using a data recovery program which will attempt to emulate the missing bits via looking at pre/post bits but its likely to take large blocks out with even a small scratch.

Although there is no data kept on the perspex bit at all, you cant keep cutting it down with polish. It is designed with a certain level of refraction which will degrade with each clean.. eventually the reader will throw errors.

aZk.