Clean the disc: cotton, alcohol, and… toothpaste? Start by cleaning the disc with a soft cotton cloth dampened in alcohol or a window-cleaning solution. Be sure to wipe the disc gently from the center ...

August 15, 2016 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you have a CD or DVD that won’t play because it’s covered in dust and scratches, a little forehead grease ...

If you've ever owned a CD or DVD, you've certainly had to deal with scratched up, unreadable media. Hardware Secrets has a simple solution: a scratched CD can be recovered by polishing its plastic ...

This article was taken from the February 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...

Peripheral's specialist Pinpoint Consumer Electronics has launched two new advanced disc repair systems that promise to repair scratched discs in under a minute, setting the new world standard in ...

Scratches on discs can feel like the end of a video game or movie. With the wear and tear of time, physical means of owning media feel as if they are going to disappear with time as technology breaks ...

You can buy dedicated CD or DVD cleaning products, however instead of forking out for these, use white toothpaste or metal polish instead. Before you deal with the scratch, ensure the CD or DVD is ...

I have a CD-ROM that is quite scratched (those nasty circular ones...the drive it was in must have been borked somehow). Needless to say, it won't read past a certain point so I need to find out if I ...

I ended up buying one of these Disc Repair & Cleaning Kit s from Monoprice. I'd say that that it took care of 90% of my problem disks. The process takes a few minutes, as it has a few steps (3 ...

Back in the mid-1980s, when CDs were first introduced and every player seemed to come with a free copy of Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms (the nastier models came with two), we all fell for the promise ...