[lotuseclat79]

Beware the microwave technique making the rounds on the Intenet for solving this problem - It's a Prank! Follow its guidelines and you will destroy your already challenged CD.

Generally speaking, I am very skeptical that bananas or peanut butter can solve this problem - I have a scratched CD from opening a very tightly packed folder with a knife - and it won't boot up due to the scratches (Knoppix CD with O'Reilly Knoppix Hacks book). Next time, I will make sure I am facing the knife toward the top of the CD rather than the working side.

-- Tom

[gurbleeek]

I've been using t-cut for years to repair my discs. Even unreadable ones. It works a treat.

[L33tm4st3r]

well lotus, you can't possibly screw it up worse than it already is trust me, I use the peanut butter technique all the time. it gets rid of some pretty incredible scratches.

[rka0]

Hi Tom. If you've scored a cd/dvd with a knife then I think we would all agree that is the end of that unless some smart arse out there knows differently.
Bob.

[drbali]

I haven' tried bananas or peanut butter to "fix" scratched disks, yet.
Believe it or not, a gentle application of a metal polish (like "Brasso"), can work wonders. Never rub a CD/DVD in a circular fashion. Rub from the centre outwards in straight lines.

As I live in a tropical country, applying sugary materials would probably be a bad thing. I wonder how many tropical ants can exist on a laser lens?

Software programs, like BadCopyPro, can sometimes read badly damaged disks. If all fails, we can always use our disks as beer-coasters or Frisbees.

[new tech guy]

I have a diskdoctor that i will say works pretty nicely for scratched discs. Use it on any used videogame i get and use it when games have freezing problems and 90% of the time the scratched disc works perfectly fine once run through disc doctor. Only side effect are buffermarks left from the electric buffer on the unit but that does not bother the drive reading the disc.