On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 10:40 -0800, Les wrote: > This is probably too late to help you ric, but the disks are plastic, > and the actual media that the recording is made into is a layer in the > middle. The plastic can be buffed. I had a favorite dvd movie that I > loved, and it got scratched. I used toothpaste (not a gel, the old > paste), and a soft cloth (a diaper which we keep for working on varnish > and my motorcycle windshields) and buffed it out. Take a small daub of > toothpaste, and using a circular motion with the finger(s), just keep > polishing the area with the scratch out to about 0.5" from it. This > will restore the clarity of the plastic and the recording can be > recovered. > rinse, buff and repeat until the scratch is no longer present when light > is reflected off the disk. Make a copy once it is working, because new > drives spin quite fast and I suspect the disk physical integrity may be > compromised. > > Hope this hint helps some of you with those disks you thought were lost. > > Regards, > Les H Perfect! I shall give that a go as I still have the disk! I like it, low-budget, low-tech and it appears perfectly doable! Thanks Les! <grinning hugely!> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
