Comments on: How to Repair Scratched CDs

on 10/13/2009 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.

on 7/25/2009 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.

on 1/19/2009 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.

on 11/13/2008 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!

on 3/10/2008 Doesn't always work. Profesional disc repair like discrepairservices.com will make it look new again. My xbox disc was scratched badly and it looks brand new

on 3/10/2008 GEt it fixed by a professional compny like discrepairservices.com I had them do mine and it looks brand new!

on 1/26/2008 I had a badly scratched xbox 360 game, which I sent off to http://www.cdfix.co.uk and it came back looking like new. I would defintely recommend using a professional disc repair service for repairing your scratched cd or dvd. Only cost a few quid, but saved me at least £30 by not having to buy a new one.

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on 10/30/2007 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%.

on 9/22/2007 im tried tooth paste and baby wipes ahcohal and nail polish remover and clorox mixed and it worked you should try it out

on 7/1/2007 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

on 6/4/2007 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.

on 6/3/2007 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.

on 5/3/2007 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??

on 3/10/2007 Just to point out the there are professional cd and dvd repair experts out there. It is definatly worth trying to fix your own, but if the data is valuable or the disk was expensive, I would suggest using one. One in the UK is http://www.cd-repair.co.uk