How To PROPERLY Repair Scratched UNREADABLE CD's & DVD's(Game Discs)

Spoiler Alert: It worked.

I did this and my hand started glowing, Like a glow bug. I tried using warm water and that helped. Most of the neon glows went down the drain. Wii sports back in action!

Thanks for your time

No matter how much I do the last step the disc will not shine 😢

WARNING: Please don’t try this at your home!

the concept worked. Holy crap! I used a sponge but wow. Thanks man!

I must have missed something in the video --- thanks for that -- but after I follow the process using the 1000, 2000 and 3000 grit sandpaper then use the polish, the dvd would work at all in the computer

I thought,you said $1.50 and i see almost $20 on amazon?

Awesome trolling. I bought 3000 fine sandpaper, started wet sanding very slightly with 2500 then two rounds of wet sanding with 3000, polished and yeah its scratched, sanding is sanding, it scratches the coat. You can buff it even with the Pope's semen and it will be still scratched from that sanding.
I love how the whole internet unites in this prank

How about brasso? Think that'd work?

It worked for me. I saved a $460 cd I got from Discogs. I somehow scratched the hell out of it during a move, which is not a proud moment considering the price tag and rarity of the album. However I’m still left with lots of tiny scratches, and my burner keeps ejecting it. It plays fine in a CD player now though, oddly. I did use Brasso which I had on hand instead of headlight polish like yourself. Would I need to sand longer and possibly harder with the higher grit?

This doesn’t work did exactly what was in the video and it doesn’t. It actually made it worse. He slips different disc. Notice he did not show you the actual label of the disk either before or after. Bogus video

Bummer, I have a few scuffed and scratched DVD's in the Deadwood series,
I used 2500 wet then buffed perfectly with a Dremel felt and plastic polish
... still freezes up in places.

How the abrasive stuff not harms the little data lines written into the disk,I don't want to harm my old Need For Speed's.

Mega media X-change will resurface any disk for 3 bucks. They have 2 rather large machines. The other one is a buffer and they'll do that for free.

Rubbish it doesnt work its a waste or Time just use the JfJ Easy Pro works 100%

I bought everything you showed and it did not work. I just have a whole bunch of scrached
games.

Will this method work for a single deep scratch at the edge of a music CD or do I need to go with a lower number on the first sandpaper? Also you never did show how you cleaned off the excess polish afterwards. Did you run it under the tap water and dry it off with a microfiber cloth?

First time on this channel. Great video, like and subscribe from me!

Trying to watch LOTR two towers when it freezes after Aragorn falls over the cliff..
Thought i could just take the disk out, skip to the following scene...but the dvd player said NOPE 🤬

Does this work on DVRs? I've gotten my disc quite shiny but it won't read for anything.😭

Don’t try this if you don’t know what your doing

Lmao I’m in 2021 trynna reload my memories😩

Crap, I got 3000 grit paper instead of the foam pad. Will it still work or should I just get the pad?

Do not do this on blurays. Their construction is radically different than CD/DVD. It will damage/remove the incredibly thin hardcoat, the data layer is very near the hardcoat. Unlike CD where the data is near the label side, and DVD where the data is near the middle.

I wonder: would this work in hdd??

Before watching this video, I tried a 1000 grit, 2000 grit sandpaper and a scratch remover paste. It did not work out for me, I think i made a mistake by not using a finer 3000 grit sandpaper, I will try again using a 3000 and higher grits plus a 3M scratch remover cream. Nice informative video!

just here to repair lots of dvd disks

Can i use tooth paste ?

very informative i will give it a try , i first saw the cd disc on the tomorrows world programme in 1982 after nearly 40 years you would think they would have come up with a decent tough plastic so it didnt scratch just by breathing on it or touching it .

Thanks a lot for this nice video!
Did you try it on ps1 games? I've tried on one that was at least starting but it's not starting anymore. I think it's not polished enough because it's not very bright like yours, but i've been polishing it for a while with wet paper. Maybe it's my paste, is it really important? On your video your disc seemed already very good after the 3000 grit paper.

This is good my donkey kong cd worked but eventualy said disk cannor be read

Came here to learn to remove scratches you scratch the crap out of it. Right on! I have so many CDs I want to keep & now I'm gonna scratch them more. I sure hope this really works.

are gamecube discs the same i want to play my luigis mansion and buying a new disk is like 80$

okay so i tried this just today but it didn't work for me, as I'm writing this I've never seen my optical drive have such a hard time reading something lol, my problem is that even after the 3000 and polish paste , it was still too dull, although shiny, so I'm hoping now to find a 5000 sandpaper to try and minimize it

You should never clean the disc with water in circular motion,do it always from centre to end

Very informative video mate

Does this work on copy dvds aswell?

Myne mario kart Wii

It didnt work for me i tried a few times but no result. Can anyone help

I’m here for my dads old cds he gave me.

Thank you for the vid man now have about 20 cds I can fix

Does the 3000 grit have to be the foam sanding pad or can it just be the normal 3000 grid sandpaper?

For the 3000 grit can I use just the wet/dry instead of the 3000 grit foam sanding pad

Hi, I have question. Does it work with Dual layer DVDs? Trying to fix Super Smash Bros Brawl

is it worked for dvd that damage by UV?

I'm trying to fix my devil's rejects DVD

The same game i want to fix

I have tried to use sand paper and it doesn't work