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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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, ...

Instructables has a tutorial on a CD repair technique designed to bring nearly any disc (barring any cracks, breaks, etc…) back from the dead. The fix requires you to heat the underside of the CD over ...

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 ...

Q: How do you repair scratched CDs? Is there a kit I can purchase or a place I can have them repaired? - Frances Nash, Fayetteville, Ga. A: Yes, almost any computer store and most record stores sell ...

Reader Joe Feil’s daughter faces an age-old conundrum—you’ve got your repair CD at the ready, but your media drive appears to be on the fritz. He writes: My daughter’s Mac doesn’t recognize CDs when ...