On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 06:03:48PM -0400, Chris wrote:
> >There's a product called "Disc Doctor" that's supposed to clean
> >mold/mildew from vinyl LPs, as well as other aspects of cleaning them;
> >from what I've read, this cleaning solution was created by a chemist
> >who spent years researching and creating it.
>
> Don't confuse this with the "Disc Doctor" for CDs. The CD thing will
> destroy your discs. It is a hand crank unit that the CD clips into, and
> comes with a spray on chemical. You are supposed to use it with badly
> scratched or dirtied CDs. Spray the fluid on, clip it into the hand
> crank, and turn the crank. Then it rebuffs the CD surface, and "grinds" a
> new coat on it to remove sratches.
>
> Well, I have one, and after trying to recover 3 CDs with it and it didn't
> work, I decided to try it on a new CD (because I didn't like the looks of
> the CD when it was done). It rendered the new CD useless. And was
> repeatable on 4 more CDs (you know, just making sure I wasn't doing
> something wrong).
If you just want to recover the contents of an audio CD, you could use
a very good CD drive and cdparanioa. I once used it on two badly
scratched audio CDs which my CD player flat out refused to even
recognize as audio CDs. But cdparanio got the audio off the CDs. It took
almost half a day for each CD, but in the end, the result had only about
3 audible clicks in it - for the entire CD.
For data CDs tough one is out of luck I'm afraid.
Regards,
Alex.
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Received on Tue Sep 03 2002 - 04:48:00 BST