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 ...

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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 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 ...

Dear Readers: Compact discs sound great, but they scratch so easily. However, don't toss a scratched CD until you try my homemade scratch remedy. Many scratches can be wiped away with ordinary white ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’d heard all about miracle-working products that could repair damaged compact discs. I’d squeeze bottles of the latest gunk onto a scratch-laden disc, buff it with a cloth and test the results — only ...

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 ...