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?
