How to Fix a Scratched CD to Recover Your Data

Everyone knows it is nearly impossible to prevent CDs from scratches or damaged from time to time, especially with frequent use. Once the CD is scratched or damaged, it means you will lose the data on it. Then how to recover the damaged or scratched CD for data recovery? In this article we will show you some simple ways.




All Things You Need


Clean, software, lint-free cloth (microfiber cloths is recommended)
Water (or rubbing alcohol)
Brasso metal polisher, fine polishing compound or toothpaste
Cotton gloves or plastic food-handling gloves (which can be used to handle CDs without leaving behind fingerprints)
A lamp
Instructions to fix scratched CDs


Step 1Clean the CD disc.
To maintenance your CD disc, it is very important to clean it, no matter if it is scratched or scuffed, dust, oil or other surface contaminants. Do the following to clean your CD disc:


Remove dust from the CD interface by running warm water over the damaged disc.
If find a stubborn dirt or grease on the CD disc, gently rub it with your finger while you are washing it. Or you can use a gentle detergent or liquid soap or rubbing alcohol, which will do better on the cleaning.
When making the CD disc clean, shake the water off and wait for the disc dry in air. (Remember never dry the CD disc with a towerl or cloth to prevent it from stained again, nor try sun-dry).
Play the CD disc. In fact, the scratched CD disc will be useful again after this step. Try to play the CD in a different CD player. Some players in the market do a better job on the scratched CD playback than others.
Copy the CD to a new disc. Although your CD is playable in some CD player, it is suggested to copy the scratched CD to a new disc. Then your new CD will be played correctly by all CD players in all computers.
Step 2 Repair foil scratches on CD.
First, determine if you have a scratch in the disc’s foil. Hold the CD in clear view of a bright light, shiny side up to see if there are small areas on the disc indicating the signs of the foil missing.


Second, mark where these areas are with a whiteboard maker pen carefully.


Third, repair the foil scratches by getting two small stripes of masking tape and laying them one on top of each other over the area you have just marked. Then the missing pieces of foil will be repaired perfectly.


Step 3 Polish the CD disc with a slight abrasive.
Some of the outer plastic coating can be removed quickly by polishing a CD disc. A number of common household products can be used to complete the CD polishing, such as toothpaste especially baking soda toothpaste, and Brasso. All you need to do is to put a small amount of toothpaste, or brasso to a soft, clean, lint-free cloth and rum the cloth on the scratch or scuff in a radial motion. Finally remove the polishing product from the CD disc. If you are using the toothpaste, rinse the disc with warm water and then wait it for air-dry. If you are using Brasso, just wipe off excess product on the CD and wait the reset dry, and then wipe the disc with a clean, soft cloth,


Step 4 Repair the scratched CD with light bulb.
This method is also very simple: turn on your prepared light bulb (it should be a 60 watt incandescent filament bulb) > hold the CD with your forefinger in the center of CD towards the lamp > keep the CD in place for about 20 seconds or so by rotate it slowly around your forefinger. Then while it’s still hot, play it in the CD drive.

How to Record DVD Movie onto Hard Drive?

People use DVD instead of CD due to some extra benefits. DVD holds clearer pictures and better quality sound, and stores the entire movie in one single disc, so we don’t need to carry many CDs. Can we record DVD and save onto the hard drive, so that we can repeatedly play some splendid moments without wearing the disc or DVD drive?

With a built-in DVD recorder, it is possible for use to record DVD as MPEG-2 video with DVD X Player. Let’s have a look at how to record DVD movie.

Record DVD Movie Guide

Step 1. Startup DVD X Player

Startup DVD X Player. If you haven’t installed it, click here to get the latest version and follow the prompts to install it.

Step 2.Load the DVD

Insert the DVD into DVD drive, the player will auto start to play the disc if you have set it as the default player.

Step 3. Record DVD

Click the red  button on the main panel to start. A small window with warning will appear. To protect DVD copyright, DVD X Player only allows you to record DVD video within a time limitation: 45 minutes for DVD X Player Professional, 15 minutes for DVD X Player Standard. Please read it carefully and abide by the agreement.

To stop recording, just click the button again. Then video files you recorded have been saved on C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Aviosoft\DVD X Player.

How to Get More Votes to Win More Free Software?

Have you participated CloneDVD’s The Most Classic Movie Competition? Want to get more votes to win some more free software? There are many ways that you can share the news with your friends and let them vote for you.

By Facebook

• 1. Copy the URL of your submitted movie.

• 2. Paste the URL on Facebook, write a comment and post.

• 3. Create an event and invite your friends to vote for you.

By Twitter

Push the link and text on Twitter to let your friends know it and vote for you.

By E-mail

Forward the e-mail to inform your friends that you have participated the competition and ask them to vote.

Other Ways

You probably have many other social accesses. Just make it exposed, thus you can get more votes.

In which way to get votes is up to you. Lots of freebies are waiting for you: DVD copy software, DVD decrypter, DVD converters, video converter, mobile tools and more. Hurry up!

Classic Forever - Win Freebies in CloneDVD’s The Most Classic Movie Competition

June 1, 2012 – Aviosoft, Inc launched The Most Classic Movie Competition in the theme of “Classics Forever” on clonedvd, with the awards of free software. The competition is open worldwide, and will last for a month. People who like films just tell us the name of the most classic movie in your heart, and then ask your friends to vote for you. As long as the more votes you get, the more freebies you will win.

Classics never fade. They have transcended time and trends, with indefinable quality. Classic movies are often universal favorites that hold up after repeated rescreening. Classics are renowned films of first rank, reference points in film mythology.

Clonedvd.net provides the best DVD copy, DVD decrypter, DVD ripper software since 2003. Its signature product CloneDVD is especially designed for movie funs to copy, burn DVD movies. Use CloneDVD to backup those classic DVD movies, let classics live forever.

How to Participate This Competition?

1.      Just fill the information including your name, e-mail, a movie name, and the reason why you think it is classic.

2.      Go to your e-mail box to confirm the submission, and then share it with your friends to let them vote.

3.      People who don’t feel like submitting a movie name can also vote for others’, just for you guys have the same favorites, similar feelings. A resonance of the souls is exciting.

1 vote equals to 10 cents. Your earnings can be used to purchase any product on our site. There are many DVD tools and video converters which will definitely expand your digital enjoyment. The competition will be closed on June 30, 2012. Come join us! Now!

About Aviosoft

Aviosoft Inc. has been one of the leading multimedia software companies since 2003, which mainly creates and develops DVD copy, DVD playback, video conversion and editing programs for better enjoying video, audio and pictures on computers and popular portable devices.

Links:
Company Website: http://www.clonedvd.net/
The Most Classic Movie Competition: http://www.clonedvd.net/promotion/classic-movie.php
Contact:
Marketing Department, Aviosoft, Inc.
marketing@clonedvd.net

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