CD/DVD Cleaning and Polishing Tutorial - How To Do It RIGHT The First Time Around.

Ever got a CD/DVD lying around that's scratched and pretty much unusable? Here's how to fix it and make a copy while you can. (Links at bottom, please read directions carefully)

Things you will need:
A microfiber cloth or soft (preferably 100% cotton) cloth to avoid furtherscratching and for the polishing
Isopropyl Alcohol/Rubbing Alcohol (Optional) to clean the CD/DVD to see if that's the problem
Brasso or some other kind of gentle metal/silver/jewelry polish. (In this video I use Weiman brand Royal Sterling Silver Polish I got at Target for $3.89 with tax.) If your using Brasso do it in an open/well ventilated area and avoid breathing in the fumes, it contains fricken ammonia.
5-30 minutes of free time/patience
A non-slip mat (Optional), If you don't have this just hold the CD from the outer edges or with a finger through the middle, DO NOT touch the CD.
A CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD or some other mostly-polycarbonate disc that is skipping/damaged/unusable and needs cleaning and polishing

Procedure:
1. Prepare your items and lay them in front of you.
2. Put the disc on the mat (if you have one) or hold it, take your microfiber cloth and douse a small portion in rubbing alcohol or run it under some warm water in the sink and rub it gently with your finger from the center outward to the edge, you can even use window cleaner or windex.
3. Take your cloth and place a little dab of polisher onto it and rub it on the disk in a motion from the center outwards or outwards inward to the center like spokes on a wheel to avoid scratching that'll screw up the lasers tracking and thus require more polishing to fix.
4. Rub in a circles but not a circular motion around the disc with your microfiber cloth, otherwise I recommend center-outwards or outwards-center like spokes on a wheel in a straight line to avoid scratching it further (it can do with scratches like that that are minor but not scratches that are circular and follow the direction of the way the CD spins).
5. Polish in this method for 5-30 minutes.
6. Once you are finished wipe off in the spokes method but leave a little bit of the polish on.
7. (OPTIONAL) If the scratches aren't completely out, apply a small amount of polish and buff the area LIGHTLY by rubbing the cloth back and forth from one edge to the other in a straight line very fast, be careful not to scratch the CD more.
8. Copy the files from the CD/DVD or make a disc image of it using PowerISO and then use YACC to compress it. Burn another disc for backup.
9. Enjoy!

Links:
PowerISO 4.0 with free serial keys for registration: http://www.mediafire.com/?ntoyjyrtmiz

YACC 4.03 (Yet Another CSO Compressor) [Use to compress your ISO files to save space, then decompress and burn to a disc when you need to): http://yacc.pspgen.com/Yacc%200.4.0.3%20Installer.exe

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[mike1005ful1]

50% isoprophl alcohol will make it worst I just tried it

[FrosDOwnz]

@mike1005ful1 Too little Isoproyl and too much water.

[SCORNDOGGMELACH]

3 TIMES YOU SAY LEAVE A LITTLE POLISH ON, but dont say why. So .... why?

[FrosDOwnz]

@SCORNDOGGMELACH If it looks better the way you see it then the laser can read it better.

[ant0tr0n]

is the shammwow a micro fiber cloth

[FrosDOwnz]

@ant0tr0n rayon and propylene, so I don't think so.

[jeffrey1296]

Damn kid u talk to much

[blahpoop99]

he is all about the microfibre clothes.

[gladbeast]

@ant0tr0n what yo need is the shamwoohoo

[dragonslayerED30]

5000 grit wet dry sandpaper gets them right out kid...I fixed all my old ass porn videos with it

[Ibringthetruth1]

you need a drill kid. polishing is time consuming to remove deep scratch. youtube.com/watch?v=rf3Rwfntc9­k

[FrosDOwnz]

@krismagician Probably, I don't polish discs anymore because I rarely ever use them.

[krismagician]

your polishing technique isn't right. you need to polish from the inside to the outside to prevent extra damage