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Which side should be protected better on your CD?

why not both? lol.... I'm sure there's a logical reason why they have the label on the top.

i think the bottom coz thats where all the data is.  why would u care about the top?

Well... on PS2 disks sometimes if you get a scratch on the top you can completely screw up your game.... and the ones on the top aren't fixable... the ones on the bottom are.

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Originally posted by [MR]
i think the bottom coz thats where all the data is.  why would u care about the top?

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Issit? Think again...

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Originally posted by lrac522
Issit? Think again...(Smilie)

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you think that messing with the label on the top would really matter when getting data on or off a cd? no.

Does it or doesn't it?.... I know a scratch on the top can ruin a CD... But I'm pretty sure there isn't data stored on top... just that the scratch would affect the deep data.

http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq07.html#S7-12

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If you scratched the top (label) side of a CD-R, and it no longer works, your disc is toast. (If you scratched it, and it still works, copy the data off while you still can.)

If you scratched the bottom side, then all you've done is etch the polycarbonate (plastic), and it can be repaired like any other CD. A common misconception is that the data is on the bottom, but if you examine it carefully you will see that the data is beneath the label. The laser reads the data through the polycarbonate layer, and if the layer is scratched the laser will refract onto the wrong part of the disc.

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That FAQ is about CD-Rs, but I assume the same applies to all CDs...

Yes, it applied to all CD and DVD formats. Scratching the top of your disk makes them definitively unreadable.

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Originally posted by Patchou
Yes, it applied to all CD and DVD formats. Scratching the top of your disk makes them definitively unreadable.

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Thats what i was going to say ..... take a old cd and try to scratch off the label and silver foil ..... you will get a transparent peice of plastic which is good for no other use than playing frisbee if you live in an apartment on the 6th floor or something
It has happened to me

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Originally posted by groessl35
the ones on the bottom are.

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They are Some of my dvd's are scratched from the bottom but the inner layer which keeps the data and the label are perfectly ok. The disc isnt always readable. How do you fix it Cause imo it cant be ....