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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 ...

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 ...

I had some pretty beat up CDs, which became a problem when I began my [fun] project of ripping 600+ of them to iTunes. I ended up buying one of these Disc Repair & Cleaning Kit s from Monoprice. I'd ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everyone, and I do mean everyone that has owned a CD has come to the sad realization that one of their favorite or most important disks has somehow gotten scratched enough to hinder playback. So what ...