What you think is the data side of a CD (the shiny silver side with
the rainbow reflections) is not. It is clear and flat. The data is
on the other side, in the plastic, aluminum coated, and under the
printing of the label. If you try to take off the top printing with
a chemical, and get deep into a protective lacquer layer, you will
destroy data.
The shiny silver underside can be polished with auto polishing
compound or a disk cleaning kit. Or you can smear peanut oil or
mineral oil in a very light layer onto the scratched side. Wipe off
excess. The oil will fill in the scratches, letting the light from
the reading laser pass through the plastic, reflect off the data, and
pass back out to the reader.
--- In Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussion
yahoogroups.com, "Terry"
<redneckgirl1967...> wrote:
>
> This is going to sound crazy, but bear with me. A friend of mine
> heard that you could fix a scratched CD with a marker and so she
> colored in all the scratches and tried to play it. Well, it didn't
> work, actually made it skip even worse, then later her son took the
CD
> and cleaned off all the ink with nail polish remover and it worked
> just fine.
> If all else fails, I'd give it a try.
>; Terry
>
> --- In Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussionyahoogroups.com, "basilb4me"
> <basilb4me> wrote:
> >
>; > I pulled out a recovery cd for my old computer - the cd hasn't
been
> > touched since the computer was new, and is in a plastic wallet
with a
> > printed insert. The printed insert had stuck to the cd and the
> > printing has stuck to the data side of the cd. Does anyone know
how
> > to safely get this off? TIA
> >
>;
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