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[Semsem]

How well has toothpaste worked for you? For me it worked semi-well (fixed a lot of skips) but it didn't do the best job ever...

[cons]

After manually cleaning your trashed disc, it is advisable to use a CD/DVD file recovery software (ISObuster comes to mind) to recover the data. This way you can backup all the important data to a different medium. Sooner or later, a scratched disc will fail.

[Soviet Rathe]

I've always found toothpaste to work really good, here's what you should do.
First you will need tooth "Paste", the gel kind won't work. just go to the dollar store and get the kind without a smell because you'r house will smell like mint lol
1) Clean the disc with soap and water to assure nothing is on it
2) Squirt some toothpaste of disc.
3) Use an old cotton shirt and buff from the center outward in a circular motion, applying moderate pressure and using more toothpaste as needed.
4) Depending on how bad the CD was scratched, wash the toothpaste off and repeat the process a few times, keep buffing for about 20 minutes
Note: when you are doing this your Disc will appear to have small circular scratches on it, almost like you took fine sandpaper to it lol, these kind of scratches will not harm the reading of the disc, trust me. because their so fine.

Ok now you will need to polish the disc, we will also be using toothpaste to do this.

1) Squirt some toothpaste on the Disc and gently rub the paste outward until the entire disc is covered with toothpaste.
2) Let stand for about 5 minutes.
3) Wash the toothpaste off the disc and repeat the proses about 5 - 10 times, or until you get board.

You have now polished your Disc and chances are you have fixed your Disc, but I would still backup the data because that disc isn't going to last a long time.

[Ash-Bash]

I have found Soviets way to work for me a couple of times you can also use peanut butter there are a ton of videos on Youtube which I selected a few and tried some worked some didn't. Nice cheap and easy way to repair a disk. All he really done was listen to a video on Youtube and type it up .

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3) Wash the toothpaste off the disc and repeat the proses about 5 - 10 times, or until you get board.

You mean bored? Lolz.

[-Sky-]

Wow, Soviet, I didn't know Toothpaste would work..I'll give it a try if my GTA IV Discs get scratches.

Thanks.