ok i was cleaning my room and i found my GTA San Andreas CD for PS2, and i wanted to play it  cos i havent for the logest time. but it is scracth!!!! and i want to know a good way that works to fixed the cd. besides buyin those "cd scratch fixer kits", i read on a site about diff ways to fix them but i cant find it now, ill try to post a pic of the scrach cd so u can see how damage in it.

apparently toothpaste works good

however please note I have NOT tried this nor do i want to be held responsible for anything that may happen

my freind said freezing them works, probs balls, but no harm it sucks anyway

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Originally posted by mwe99
I have NOT tried this nor do i want to be held responsible for anything that may happen

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here's a link with some tips

http://www.ehow.com/tips_892_2.html

ok i will try this i hope it doesnt kill it at all

Boiling water 
updateit didnt work so i will try something else may be ill try toohpaste "P

i wana try that but i dont know if i want to risk it...

maybe not right now...

i jsut played gta SA, toothpaste worked it took alot of work to wipe it off but it was woth the try everyone try it i cant really tell how much dameage it can recover but if mine was damged from 1 to 10, with 10 beig very bad, mine was a 7 and now works like b4

ohhh wierd, this is gonna be big, ahh toothpaste is there anything it cant do.

yeah but it cant read soemtimes after playin for like 2hrs it woul stop reading or give error so i guess im just gonaa buy a new cd but it really helped

toothpaste cant sing EVERY national anthem

isn't toothpaste an abrasive , wouldn't it scratch it more ?

nope it looked more clean it takes time to clean it all up but its worth.

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Originally posted by Chestah
isn't toothpaste an abrasive , wouldn't it scratch it more ?

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Originally posted by guanako
nope it looked more clean it takes time to clean it all up but its worth.

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Yes you got that from the guide didn't you?

Toothpaste may (or mar not) be an abrasive, but some CD repairers work by levelling out the scratch with more, tiny, scratches, so maybe it is the abrasive quality of toothpaste (if it exists) that does the work.

* rav0 goes to put toothpaste on rav0's T630 Liquid Black Limited Edition

This reminds me; a while ago my parents bought a whole heap of Colgate toothpaste (we always use Colgate) from some wierd store. Sometimes we have gotten toothpaste from Indian shops, and it was labelled for Fiji, but it is the exact same stuff as the Australian packs. This lot of toothpaste was labelled for South Africa/America (I can't remember). Anyway it was really wierd, and had a powdery texture, like those "just add water" things, so maybe it is this kind of toothpaste that is abrasive. I wonder which kind fixes scratches, the powdery stuff or the smooth stuff.

I'd reccommend getting a game Dr. (scratch removal kit).... it works like a charm and saved me lots of money.

Alot of scratched CD's I have work fine...  did you try just playing it before you smothered it in toothpaste?

As for toothpaste, putting it on cuts is supposed to make them heal quicker... I was stupid enough to try it, and it hurt like HELL

its not for cuts its for burns

well i know for me, some of my scratched cds don't work in a few computers but they work in one of my two drives on my computer . Some are fussier then others, but i tell you its a real pain when your trying to install windows and my computer is the only one that can read the disc =/

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Originally posted by rav0
Yes you got that from the guide didn't you?

Toothpaste may (or mar not) be an abrasive, but some CD repairers work by levelling out the scratch with more, tiny, scratches, so maybe it is the abrasive quality of toothpaste (if it exists) that does the work.

* rav0 goes to put toothpaste on rav0's T630 Liquid Black Limited Edition


This reminds me; a while ago my parents bought a whole heap of Colgate toothpaste (we always use Colgate) from some wierd store. Sometimes we have gotten toothpaste from Indian shops, and it was labelled for Fiji, but it is the exact same stuff as the Australian packs. This lot of toothpaste was labelled for South Africa/America (I can't remember). Anyway it was really wierd, and had a powdery texture, like those "just add water" things, so maybe it is this kind of toothpaste that is abrasive. I wonder which kind fixes scratches, the powdery stuff or the smooth stuff.

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