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 ...

While CDs will soon be obsolete, more than likely you still own tons of them. Even more likely is that they all have tons of scratches on them. There's an easy solution to get those CDs to look shiny ...

I don't put my CDs or DVDs up after I use them typically. I tend to stack them in a pile on my desk or on the shelf behind my desk. I guess the kids learned the same thing from me since they tend to ...

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 ...

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My favorite new audio source is audio CD's from the public library: great selection and no compression problems like downloads. The one obstacle is that some have scratches that prevent a clean copy ...

July 29, 2006 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Last night at a critical point in the movie, DVD Player stopped short and said ...

Dear Billy: Compact discs can scratch easily, but the good news is that many scratches can be wiped away with ordinary white toothpaste. Gels won't work -- just plain, white toothpaste. Squeeze a ...