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Re: Repairing scratched CDs and DVDs
« on: February 23, 2007, 04:51:50 PM »
This company I cannot recommend highly enough - www.three-r.co.uk

They actually completely resurface the disc (none of this polishing rubbing malarky) - I've used it to have an xBox360 game disc repaired that had a very deep circular scratch (it's a design flaw of 360's, do a Google).

They repaired the disc for 2.50 GBP + return postage - t he price drops the more discs you send.

Considering to buy the game again would be around 40 GBP, I think that's excellent.

They're service was quick and the quality of work excellent.

Matt
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stopthegop wrote:
Hello,

I've been going through my CD and DVD collection (which is massive, dating to pre-digital) the last couple of weeks and I'm in the process of organizing everything and copying the entire collection to digital linear tape, and eventually into a small 30-50 element robotic tape library.  One problem I'm having is with scratched media.  I'm curious what methods other people use to fix CDs like this?  I've tried a few different things for this.  Interestingly I've had the best results with...  clear KY lotion and a clean Chamois.  Its saved about 75% of the discs I've tried it on... But that leaves the 25% still at least partially unreadable, including some extreme rarities (Metallica - the 5.98 LP/9.98 CD, c. 1985), live G. Dead, etc..   Any ideas on how I might revive these old discs?