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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While physical media isn't as popular as it once was, most people own at least a few discs, whether they're old music CDs they grew up loving ...

The removal of fingerprints and scratches from the non-label side of CDs and DVDs. Although lasers can read a disc with minor scratches, heavy scratches will cause read errors. The lowest-end repair ...

Peripheral's specialist Pinpoint Consumer Electronics has launched two new advanced disc repair systems that promise to repair scratched discs in under a minute, setting the new world standard in ...

With so much riding on optical discs—your games, movies, backups—you need to have a good repair system. We tested five popular cleaning and repair kits on deeply scratched CDs; they all clean well, ...

That's the only kind of damage the scratch repair kits can't do anything about.<P>I tried the wax thing on a CD years ago, and it completely screwed up the CD. It went from skipping on a couple of ...

I've used "Novus", a two-step plastic polish/cleaner sold by the local Plexiglas distributor, on CD scratches with excellent results. Any thing that's labelled for use on polycarbonate (= Lexan) ...