Remove Scratches from CDs or DVDs

10 September 2007 3 Comments Posted By Ashik

I have a large (over 800) collection of CD’s, and as the years go by, I’m finding more and more scratches on them. Financial blog Wise Bread was in the same predicament recently, and decided to do a little experimenting with how to get those scratches off once and for all.
A few different methods were tried: toothpaste, a banana (?), and Brasso, with Brasso being the clear winner. I haven’t had much luck with anything but a CD buff thingy we got from a garage sale last summer, but that’s just me. How do you get rid of scratches on your CDs and DVDs? Let’s hear it in the comments.

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3 Comments »

Anonymous said:

I have had pretty good luck using car polish like Turtlewax Finish 2001 and NuFinish. Usually a Polymer finish seems to do the trick by smoothing out the scratches and filling in the small scratches.

# 11 September 2007 at 12:16 pm

Sachin - Gujarat [Web Designer] said:

I tried Banana but yet couldn’t read CD.

# 23 May 2010 at 10:18 am

Sanket said:

hi
I have a DVD collection of 1187 Burned DVD’s Can some one please tell me how to get rid of the scratch as a scrratch on dvd can cause a lot of data loss than a cd i tried a coating my friend told me applied after burning but it didnt help i have more than 70 dvd with scratch or is there any software that can read data from scratched DVD’s tried “Isobuster” but it didnt help please help me i’m in trouble

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