Comments on How to Repair Scratched CDs

Thanks summumbonum! Toothpaste and a little bit of elbow grease did the trick.

guys guys guys!!! if you have pleag put it on a very bad scrached ps2 disk and i takes it all most off. and i cleans psp screens now i dont have many scraches on it if you dont belive me try it insted of buying a new game jist try it it works!!!!! :]

Just repaired my Xbox 360 disc! The disc suffered a large, visible circular scratch, caused by the disc drive and could not be recognised by the Xbox player. I used tooth paste, water, a damp cloth and applied small, fast circular motions over the whole disc with light to medium pressure and spent approximately five minutes buffing the disc. While the offending scratch is still visible, it is now only faint. The buffing process has left very faint circular scratches but has not affected the reading of the disc. I wrote this to instil faith that this method can work and is definitely worth trying as these games are too expensive to replace time after time.

If you have a dremmel, use it! I had a horrible scratch on a 360 game that kept it from playing. tried the toothpaste, no luck! i read about using car polish or other agents to help gently buff the plastic, then it hit me! the dremmel usually comes with polishing pads. extremely soft ones on a low setting totally did the trick.

i think that the best thing to use for scratches is Scratchout. other methods have worsened my collection on beautiful discs. however this product i bought from blockbuster does the trick. i highly reccomend it to everyone.

Clear Plastic Polish (Meguiar's PlastX) Inspired by the first comment, I buffed a severely damaged PS2 disc (this thing has been out of commission for years) using some Meguiar's PlastX clear plastic polish I had sitting around and -much to my surprise- it worked! I've tried many other techniques (such as toothpaste and cd repair spray) and none worked on this disc. If you're interested in repairing a heavily damaged cd go to your local Auto Zone or automotive department and pick some of this stuff up.

I highly disagree when saying not to polish or Buff. I've been Detailing Automobiles for 10 yrs and one thing I do quite a bit is removing scratches in plastics. One day I was listening to a CD and it skipped. I looked at the CD and noticed scratches and I thought to myself "I wonder if I can fix this" I grabbed a polish with a very fine grit and proceeded to buff out scratches. I put the CD back on the same song and noticed the skip was gone. The sound was not affected from polishing. I went through a number of my CD's I had that had skipped and fixed all of them. So I don't know why this article says not to polish or buff.

I highly disagree when saying not to polish or Buff. I've been Detailing Automobiles for 10 yrs and one thing I do quite a bit is removing scratches in plastics. One day I was listening to a CD and it skipped. I looked at the CD and noticed scratches and I thought to myself "I wonder if I can fix this" I grabbed a polish with a very fine grit and proceeded to buff out scratches. I put the CD back on the same song and noticed the skip was gone. The sound was not affected from polishing. I went through a number of my CD's I had that had skipped and fixed all of them. So I don't know why this article says not to polish or buff.

Buy Skip Dr from Digital Innovations. A manual unit will run at $20 and a motorized one at $40. I used to save may CDs and DVDs over the years. A great product at a very affordable price that saved me a lot of money and precious content!

The most frequent reason why a CD does not play anymore are scratches. Nothing cleans scrathces like a buff, just plain clean cotton buff, nothing on it whatsoever. I have seen professional CD restores use a buff installed on a grinder. Myself, I buff CDs with a plain buff that was meant to be a travelling shoes polisher. My success rate has been 100%.

im tried tooth paste and baby wipes ahcohal and nail polish remover and clorox mixed and it worked you should try it out

im tried tooth paste and baby wipes ahcohal and nail polish remover and clorox mixed and it worked you should try it out

hey jojodream i had the same problem just put some old english scratch remver for wood on you cd, take a q tipand rub it in starting from th center and dragging out the q tip to the edge then lightly wipe off the old english with a washcloth

hey jojodream i had the same problem just put some old english scratch remver for wood on you cd, take a q tipand rub it in starting from th center and dragging out the q tip to the edge then lightly wipe off the old english with a washcloth

Buffing is the most tedious part. It's boring! One person said that they used a buffing wheel on a drill. That would be the best bet. Of course you can't put a lot of pressure on it, or use a lot of speed on the drill, because the disc might crack. One of these disc repair gizmos needs to have a decent buffing wheel attachment, so you can get through the process a lot quicker. Like i said, it's boring sitting there buffing it by hand.

Buffing is the most tedious part. It's boring! One person said that they used a buffing wheel on a drill. That would be the best bet. Of course you can't put a lot of pressure on it, or use a lot of speed on the drill, because the disc might crack. One of these disc repair gizmos needs to have a decent buffing wheel attachment, so you can get through the process a lot quicker. Like i said, it's boring sitting there buffing it by hand.

Sometimes, it's not a CD or DVD's fault. Sometimes, it's bad media. I've had more luck with badly scratched CD's and DVD's than good, barely noticible scratched CD's and DVD's. Just tonight, i've been pulling my hair out trying to copy a DVD that has a lot of data on it. I've used disc doctor, and the Aleratec cd/dvd repair gizmo, as well as something called "Scratch out". Nothing has fixed this DVD. The scratches are not very noticable. They are not gouges. They are very fine scratches through the disc, yet i cannot get it to copy. So i chock it up to bad media, in this case. Another thing to mention. Many people are saying to wipe the cd from the center to the outer edge, after attemping a repair with their tried-and-true technique. This makes sense! Sometimes, you have someone who says to wipe in a circular motion. That would seem to scratch the CD/DVD.

I have a problem!! I noticed that i left my sims PC cd on my desk and then today i noticed that there are white spots on it (tiny little ones on it) and i can't get them off. The CD smells like Britney Spear's perfume "fantasy" so i guess i might have sprayed it in the morning and some of it might have landed on the CD. does anyone know how to fix this problem??

I have a problem!! I noticed that i left my sims PC cd on my desk and then today i noticed that there are white spots on it (tiny little ones on it) and i can't get them off. The CD smells like Britney Spear's perfume "fantasy" so i guess i might have sprayed it in the morning and some of it might have landed on the CD. does anyone know how to fix this problem??

Honestly, I don't understand why some people suggest "just take care of your CD's, don't let them get scratched" or "go buy a new one once they gets sratched too badly".... I doubt the people who come here are looking to buy another CD...else why would the want to know how to fix their existing CD's? THose comments just aren't helpful. Anyway, toothpaste seems to do the trick for some scratches, I have yet to try buffing them out. Also, if you put the CD in the freezer, be careful as I tried that and now my CD is slightly warped. (Still playable though) If you try all of these methods listed on eHow, by the time you're done and have thrown up your hands, you might have worn the surrounding areas of the scratch enough to even it out and make it play again. Afterwards however, I would recommend backing them up with EAC so that you'll always have a perfect working copy of that CD if more damage occurs over time.

Honestly, I don't understand why some people suggest "just take care of your CD's, don't let them get scratched" or "go buy a new one once they gets sratched too badly".... I doubt the people who come here are looking to buy another CD...else why would the want to know how to fix their existing CD's? THose comments just aren't helpful. Anyway, toothpaste seems to do the trick for some scratches, I have yet to try buffing them out. Also, if you put the CD in the freezer, be careful as I tried that and now my CD is slightly warped. (Still playable though) If you try all of these methods listed on eHow, by the time you're done and have thrown up your hands, you might have worn the surrounding areas of the scratch enough to even it out and make it play again. Afterwards however, I would recommend backing them up with EAC so that you'll always have a perfect working copy of that CD if more damage occurs over time.

Scratch that last comment the Whitney Houston scratches again

Scratch that last comment the Whitney Houston scratches again

Thank you so much to the person who left the steam and fog method for PS2 CD's because it worked! All you do is hold the CD above steam wipe it from the inside out (never circular motion)and my The Sims 2 playstation 2 game worked perfectly, before it wouldn,t play for anything. Thank you so much! Also I used the Alcohol on CD and freeze for 15 minutes method on my Whitneys greatest hits and it worked perfectly. I couldn't get it to play for years!Thank you so much!

Thank you so much to the person who left the steam and fog method for PS2 CD's because it worked! All you do is hold the CD above steam wipe it from the inside out (never circular motion)and my The Sims 2 playstation 2 game worked perfectly, before it wouldn,t play for anything. Thank you so much! Also I used the Alcohol on CD and freeze for 15 minutes method on my Whitneys greatest hits and it worked perfectly. I couldn't get it to play for years!Thank you so much!