Scratched CDs? No Problem!

We’ve all been there, bought a preowned game, put it excitedly into the console, then shouted “OMFGz0rWTF!?!?” as the console wouldn’t recognise the game. Or perhaps you have a CD which contains important data, and M$ Windoze gives you a “Cyclic Redundancy Check” error (fancy way of saying ‘Your disc is bloody SCRATCHED’).

Whatever your problem is, it’s caused by the same thing: A scratch. A scratched CD or DVD is just annoying!

So I took it upon myself to perform an experiment, to determine the very best way of dealing with a scratched disc. The limit I set myself, though, was that whatever I did it with must be somewhere in my house, and can’t take longer than 5 minutes, including waiting time for things to dry, etc.

I thought of three main ways to cope with scratches:

For more: http://www.om3ga.co.uk/2006/07/27/scratched-cds-no-problem/