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1) Use a yellow highlight marker and draw it over the scratched area. Careful, dry tips can scratch the disc.
2) Sprayable “silicone oil” - sold in Europe as “cockpit spray”. I read it has a good affinity to the hydrophobic plastic material and a similar refractional index, which is the point!
Similarly, silicon spray will work. It should look like a mirror finish, but if you use too much the disc will be unreadable. Try spraying a tiny bit on and rubbing it over the surface with paper towel - you’ll see it ‘hide’ the scratches as you rub. If you put too much on, it comes off pretty easily with eye glasses cleaner or other mild glass cleaning agent.
3) Toothpaste, with its abrasive particles can work their way into the scratches. Use a small pointer to rub it into the scratches to bring them closer to the surface and more even with the rest of the disc. Just make sure to clean off the disc when done. You don’t want toothpaste flying around your DVD drive.
4) Try cooling the disc. If that doesn’t work, try heating it. This trick will often help you get some more sectors read.
5) Some have had success with car wax or car polish. Worth a shot if all else fails.

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[master_bacarra]

actually i've read about the toothpaste technique from some other site before. the technique only works on light scratches, those that you can barely see. deep scratches, however, will make the cd/dvd less readable, thus making it useless. i've tried that but it doesn't work.

you didn't mention metal polisher. i've tried that. they said it works but it didn't work in mine.

i don't know about the other stuff. and certainly that thing you said that can only be bought in england, doesn't help those that are not in england.

[-[Nero]-]

interesting and helpful, thank you for sharing =D i'll keep this in mind if any of my discs get scratched. are there any other ways apart from those already mentioned?

[delivi]

wow that sounds great
i'm gonna give it a try

[Dregnought]

Plastic polish is proberly the best. Still don't have much luck myself when it comes to fixing scratches, short of getting a scratch removing machine.

[Plenoptic]

I've heard about the toothpaste, but not the others. I haven't actually had to try either of the ones listed so I wouldn't know which works best. I sort of wonder how it all works though because I always thought memory was lost when a scratch was on the DVD but I guess that's just how it is read. Would that mean that you can create a DVD out of toothpaste?

[Dregnought]

a disc (DVD and CD) has a protective plastic coating on the readable side. it's that thats gets scratched... However if it is deep enough it can penetrate that and get to the fragile bits underneath.

Scratches (and other things such as dirt) oftenly redirect and/or block the laser so that it cannot get to the data layer of a CD.

[QuickSilva]

I'm pretty curious about this. I keep all my DVDs/CDs in it's case so if you do that you won't ever have to resort to using methods of lifting the scratches. Well I suppose as a last resort these would be ok attempts, but I wouldn't put anything on a valuable DVD such as collector's edition or other.

-Tom.

[hindipayan96]

well i dont repair my dvds

i just buy new ones.. anyway let me try this method

[TripleH13]

I just recieved a scratched copy of a dvd and wanst sure of the correct method to fix it. SO thanks for posting up this tutorial it doesn't seem like it will be to hard to do. It also doesn't require a lot of money like some other methods i have seen do. I went around and asked a store who repairs dvd's and he said it would be like $15 and for that price i could just buy a new one. But thanks again for this method.