Comments on: How to Fix a Scratched CD or DVD

By: chowmein

chowmein — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:06:22 +0000

My little bo tried using toothpaste and it didn’t work. We used a car polisher brush and peanut butter and I was amazing. Good as new! Thx! =]

By: amandasue352

amandasue352 — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:16:35 +0000

I used pledge lemon furniture polish and it worked! I just sprayed a little bit on a cotton round, wiped it on the cd from the inside to the outside, wiped it off the same way with a clean cotton round. I was afraid of the pledge getting into my computer so I rinsed it off and wiped off the water with another cotton round. Popped it into my computer and it worked perfectly!

By: James

James — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:26:05 +0000

I have a Dvd the has Scratches and i Have Tried Furniture Polish Toothpaste And Nothing Worked. but now i have a bad Haze on the Dvd. Is there a way to Clear the Haze?

By: Poseidon

Poseidon — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:19:55 +0000

Glasses Cleaner Really Does Work! I tried it with my favorite game and now it is as good as new!

By: 8)

8) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:10:46 +0000

Well, I’ve tried the toothpaste 2 or 3 times, doesn’t work, I tried the furniture polish, and the baby wipes. I’ve even tried electronics screen cleaning wipes which seem like the first logical choice. But none of these things work. My CD is only slightly scratched and they aren’t very deep scratches so I don’t know why nothing is working.

By: Cool2Snog

Cool2Snog — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:30:16 +0000

Do not use paper towels or anything else containing wood fibers to clean CD’s (or anything else made of soft plastic, e.g., sunglasses lenses, etc). You will scratch them up even worse.

Use a SOFT COTTON RAG as the article suggests.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:32:45 +0000

I used the toothpaste one and it worked great. I worked from the center out, let it dry and then used a little water with an old white shirt and it worked perfect!

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:38:54 +0000

OMG… The baby wipes worked on all my scratched CD’s. Thanks for posting that, Hardy!

Won’t scratch your CD’s like toothpaste, don’t have to clean up sticky peanut butter afterward, and your CD’s will smell like baby oil. Love it.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:14:18 +0000

I’ve got an intensely scratched copy of one of my favorite PS2 games that often freezes at a particularly graphics-heavy part of the game. Each time this happens, I clean the disk with creamy peanut butter, make sure there’s no excess residue, and pop it back in my PS2. It works every time! I definitely recommend this process to anyone with scratched CD’s… don’t use toothpaste, it will just scratch the CD up more. Peanut butter is the way to go!

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:53:49 +0000

Hydrogen is not vegetable oil. Hydrogen is a gas.

By: Psoli

Psoli — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:08:41 +0000

Hydrogen peroxide is not vegetable oil, I don’t know what it is, but its not vegetable oil. JEEZ.

By: Roxy

Roxy — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:31:53 +0000

Thanks a lot, I tried the whole vegetable oil thing and now my Wii doesn’t work with any game. It is now broken – thanks for the tip! >:<

By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:36:00 +0000

I have fixed a ton of CD´s with hydrogen peroxide. It really works! This is not a scam it really works!!

Instructions:

1. First, apply hydrogen on your CD (like a teaspoon).

2. Rub it with a paper towel.

3. Dry the CD and then try it out. I really recommend this for you if you don’t want to get yourself in a sticky situation with thoothpaste and peanut butter.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:04:48 +0000

I have used Brasso with excellent results, it took 3-5 coats to get the deep scratches fixed. Put the Brasso on a soft cloth, working from the center out in a straight line. The Brasso doesn’t dry, so apply a coat let it rest for a few minutes, then take a soft cloth and again working in a straight line remove the residue. Repeat until the scratch is gone. It really does work.

By: Maia

Maia — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:42:55 +0000

You can also use the cleaning solution for eye glasses.

By: RecipeKing

RecipeKing — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:23:20 +0000

Hi I fixed my friends music CD’s that had scratches on it with Furniture polish and a dry sock making circles with it then rubbing it on my t shirt – OMG it worked!

By: M. Brink

M. Brink — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:22:31 +0000

I’m giving away a trade secret, but I live far enough that it won’t matter too much, If you can find it, use a Hard stick plastic polishing wax on a 6inch bench grinder that has 2 buffing wheels(the buffing wheels need to be the soft terrycloth ones, use the wax stick on one side and the other with nothing, then with light pressure buff the disc from the center outwards and turn, repeat process until the disc is coated then switch to the bare wheel and repeat the process, and it should look like new! Just make sure you hold on tightly to the disc as the bench grinder can snag the disc from your hands and throw it against the wall. Good luck finding the wax though.

By: Hardy

Hardy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:23:30 +0000

A guy at work told me to use Baby Wipes and what do you know, it actually worked great!

By: DJ

DJ — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:48:42 +0000

I tried the tooth paste and it did not work.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:55:05 +0000

I tried using car polisher but it didn’t work to well, it got one disc for my PS2 to run, but not very well, and not very long, not sure how its worked for others.