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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

If you use audio CDs in your small business, a cracked CD doesn't necessarily mean that you've lost its contents forever: using a little ingenuity, you can repair the crack long enough for you to copy ...