What is the best way to clean a scratched CD?

Answer 1

There are mant items that can be bought commercially to do such a thing. They can range from cheaper to way expensive and professional grade.

A home remedy (no responsibility here) is to use soft non gritted toothpaste lightly with a lint free cloth to wipe it and buff it lightly. Then clean CD with window cleaner or lens cleaner.

You can try to take it to a blockbuster, family video, or any video store with a professional cleaning tool / machine and ask them to clean and repair the CD/DVD also.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

First, you blow on it. Then, you just rub the back of it on a clean shirt or jeans. If the scratch is deep, then the CD is ruined.

The No. 1 source of aggravation in having a CD collection is keeping it free from scratches. Family and friends often expect you to lend out your prized CD collection each time you're asked. Well, what do you do if someone returns a CD in a state not far from unusable? Today I have a few options for all of us who are not willing to replace our favorite CDs just because they have a few scratches.

If your discs play fine, don't worry about removing the scratches. You really can't remove 100 percent of the scratches from a disc unless you replace it with a new one. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Cleaning options

There are a handful of commercial cleaning options on the market, but we've found some home remedies work just as well, if not better. If you're too cheap to spend the bread on a commercial solution, find an alternative around your house.

* Baking soda toothpaste

Baking soda toothpaste, huh? Actually, any mild abrasive like furniture polish, Pledge, or plastic polish works fine for removing CD scratches. Just take any lint-free cloth, add some of the abrasive to the afflicted area, and then wipe. Make sure to wipe from the center of the disc to the rim in a straight line. Never wipe in a circular pattern.

This only works on minor scratches, but I found the results were OK. While it does not work well in bringing back heavily scratched CDs from the grave, it does help to stop CDs with light to moderate scratches from skipping.

Finally, use baking soda toothpaste with as few additives as possible. Some of the gel-based baking soda toothpastes tend to leave a sticky film on the CD, which requires a bit of effort to remove.

* Car wax

Another home remedy I tried was car wax. Unlike polishes, waxes fill in the cracks or scratches. Just pour or rub the wax on a scratched area and wipe it off with a lint-free cloth from the center to the rim.

I didn't experience the greatest results, but it could have been the car wax I was using, liquid Turtle Wax. Some people testify that this works, but I believe you may have better luck with a Carnauba-style car wax. If you don't have access to car wax, you can try furniture wax like Pledge instead.

(i got this from Google,them Yahoo answers. )

Answer 3

go to your nearest video game store and they will surelly have the creme for removel