Anything i can do about an unreadable disk?
 

A normal writeable cd. It has some important stuff on it. The date part is scratched and the silver side actually lost some of its silver. Im not sure if thats there for any purpose but if it is can i fix this?

no idea, but I bet its not good that the silver part lost some of its silver though.....here is a bump

The silver on the top of the cd reflects the laser from the cd-rom. You're out of luck.

Yes, the silver is the most essential part of the cd. Scratches and stuff like that you can repair with some epoxy-like fluid. How important stuff?

then put a mirror on the top

Sounds pretty tricky!

scrape all of the silver off until the disc is opaque
then just hold it up to the light and read it that way

Toothpaste

Last resort but it saved a few CDs :)

no kidding?
i will remember that

For the scratches or the silver part?

Not kidding. A clerk at the grocery store applied toothpaste to my ATM card after the plastic bag trick didn't work. It worked. I tried it on a few CD's that I couldn't read anymore and it worked. I did try it on a DVD from Blockbuster and it didn't work...so who knows but as a last resort I would try it. :upsidedow

Now tell about the plastic bag trick, because I dont know about that either :upsidedow

They rub the strip with a plastic bag..I think it builds a static electricity on it

Simple if your credit card or ATM card has scratches on it, one puts in a plastic bag and swipes it...may work or not and could shut the whole store down to accept ccs so that is why I said trick.

Like I said toothpaste work for me to save a few CDs...who knows maybe soap works :upsidedow

OMG I never heard of this. maybe I should try it.

buy a new cd.

you better read the thread before hitting the reply button... :2 cents:


Franck , have ya tried different cdrom ? sometimes it's works.

Does work for some scratches but to be safe do it in a center to edge motion not circular... :2 cents:

Bumpizzle

I got one from someone with no damage to it, and you can see that it has data on it, but none of my computers can read it.