How to Resurface a Scratched DVD, CD, Game Disc - In 3 easy steps
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
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How to Repair a Blue-Ray: Game, Video, Disc:
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UPDATE: Use a soft towel instead of news paper, because the metal clips can scratch the cd from the back and destroy the data
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Step 1 inspect the CD
3:25 - Step 2 Remove / grind the scratches
7:00 - Step 3 Polish the CD
* this is the same method the machine: Jfj Easy Pro are using, we are just doing it manuel in the hand and not with the machine
This guide is a 3 step CD + DVD + Game repair guide for removing scratches:
1: check the scratchtes
2: Surface Smothing / grinding
3: Polishing
Make sure to polish it, so it shines and so its like a mirror. if its mat the lazer cannot read the data on the cd
Follow the guide in this video carefully and take care when working with the cd, by not damageing the data, then you can fix / repair a scratched CD, DVD or Game by your self. 
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tip: clean the reflective surface with a microfiber towel and not a papertowel. it has wood fibers in it that can leave microscratches that can lead to bigger ones.
I always wonders why people said not to use paper towel why couldn’t they just explain it like you I didn’t know about wood fibers being in it because I don’t think I just realized paper is made from wood I’m dumb😭
Yes, it is known to most people wearing glasses (plastic) that papertowel is the best method to cause scratches and destroys the thin polaroid layer the fastest
It's not wood but silica that destroy the CD. Papertowel is made from recycled paper and cardboard.
I was going to say the same thing. I learnt the hard way by using a damp paper towel to clean some bird droppings off my car. It left tiny scratches all over the area which I had to polish out making the job more involved than it should have been!
@Shane888 DaviesYou are wrong, there are minerals in wood fibres, notably sulphur, phosphorus, chlorine, silicon, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron and sodium. That's why ashes don't burn and why in ancient times people used to wash their clothes with wood ashes. You won't go to bed so stupid tonight...
UPDATE:
Use a towel instead of news paper..!
the metal clips on the news paper can scratch the back of the CD and destroy the data, so use a soft towel instead :)
I know thats why I didnt do that
You should pin your comment so it is at the top of the comment ?
You should pin this comment at the root oot the comments under the video
@@Lithillia lol fuck didn't even see your comment. .just said the same thing
Game Over does this method also work for Xbox 360 games?
great. its lucky i had ALL THESE THINGS AT HOME
Ik you are verified but who are you?
Not that hard to get sandpaper
@@lgpa565 BRO IT'S BORIS WTF DO YOU MEAN WHO IS HE FUNNIEST RUclipsR OF ALL TIME
IS BORISSSS
tf why y here
I actually bought a headlight cleaning kit for $14 at Walmart and it came with a drill piece, sandpaper, polish pad, polish. Used the drill to sand and polish after a few tries I got my game to work and now I can clean my cars headlights as well. I got the idea from this video thank you!
You said polish it "till you see yourself".
I polished it but saw someone else, what did I do wrong?!?!
if you dont polish it long enough, you see the face of the person who will kill you. just keep going!
run
Stop sipin' the polish!
What was it silent hill 2?
try looking at it directly, not at an angle... but then again if you're seeing the dead looking back at you in that reflection, then you've got other problems and need to call a priest
15 minutes in 10 seconds: He used 2000 grit, then 2500 grit, both with water. Then finished with 8000 grit polish and a polish machine.
Same method i used to fix my motorcycle headlamp
Sandpaper?
@@mrokonma1263 I know. Sounds weird lol. But 2,000 and 2,500 grit, or higher is super smooth. It almost doesn't even feel like sand paper. I use that grit, and 3,500 grit to sand model cars I paint to make them mirror shiny. It works lol! The real important step is buffing it at the end with polish. You godda be careful though and use a water based polish as oil based polish can deteriorate the plastic coating and ruin the disk worse than it already was.
Thank u for saving me 15 minutes I could never get back. Good looking out
I love you lol thanks
I am surprised on how well the disc came out. I had always been told to NEVER polish using a circular motion - only radially. The results here prove circular, done right, can work. I'm guessing the use of the super fine grade sandpaper and finish polish is key. Thanks for putting this up!
It worked because he uses a random orbital sander/polisher at the end to remove all the other scratches. I've heard both sides of theory though. If you go back and forth you get U shape cuts on the disc, circular avoids that by make all cuts two sided Us. As long as you polish to a mirror, all the scratches are so small it won't matter what method you use. It just might be longer or harder for one vs the other.
He polished it with machine, that is probably the reason. But I think polihing with circular motion should work too, but it takes like whole year to polish it to mirror manualy, when you polish something with radial movement, it looks polished enough, but when you look carefully, there are mostly still radial scratches visible, but yes, I would say that radial polishing makes better results when you do it manualy. That machine is called excentric polishing mahine (I am not sure about correct name in English, it's probably something else), we use it even in furniture making factory, it rotates (but not strongly, you can easily stop it with your hand) but that's just secondary motion, it brushes mainly by excentric motion, you can imagine it like you do circular move with your hand with brush paper and someone else is doing another circular motion with your hand which is doing circular motion too, when you use it properly, it should finish surface with no little scratches.
Has always straight up and down.
that tip about holding the disc up to the light to check if the damage is too deep to fix really helped it kept me from having false hope about one of my old games, sad to see it go but at least now i know i tried everything
Who else watched this cause they pulled out the old console during quarantine
I have an unreadable disc for nsmb wii and want to fix it for riivolution
@Mia Cardani nice
@Mia Cardani I had a similar issue with some of my wii discs back when it was more relevant
@Mia Cardani same
Dude cmon no one cares abt your in quarantine stuff everyone’s in quarantine we don’t need to be reminded
Easy fix tip: put the game on it's original case whenever you're finished playing.
Haha 🤣😂
I went back to playing my ps4 then my sis broke 1 of the cds cause she dosnt know how to friken look after herself
@@nurideenmohammad912 ?
This is not a tip for fixing, this is a tip for taking care of a disc
That's a TRUER !
My two girls one cup DVD is now perfectly restored. Thanks so much !
Wait what?
🤣🤣
*i beg your pardon*
*the FBI wants to know your location*
Is it the Kermit the Frog version😂
I tried this on a DVD with scratches that weren't as severe as in the vid, so I went right to the toothpaste stage. After a minute or two of polishing, the initial scratches were gone, but the polish job was still a bit rough - the surface was shiny, but light reflection still had a jagged halo on the surface. Still worked!
It definitely would take much longer to go all the way and smooth it out more. But glad to know that in a pinch, getting it just to that stage would work. Thanks!
im glad to hear it worked for you :)
Watching to fix my old video games while on quarantine
Ikr. I am pissed off cuz I cant find my fave ps2 game. Gotta go searching the attic tomorrow to find a game which will innevitably need to be fixed
Robert Same
Yo I'm doing the same on my 360 even tho I have Xbox one but I don't have many games for it
Me too
me too.....Battlefield 4 Xbox 360
Man I wish I known about this 10 years ago. My disk was scratched up and I screwed it up even more by following some satirical tutorial using a pencil eraser.
Oof
Did you too used all your scratched discs to play frisbies?
@@UKpowerunleashed I used the scratched discs of no return as Frisbees then sometimes throw them as har d I can at a wall and watch them shatter. It was a pretty funny childhood
10 years ago??? OMG...
Oops
Thank you so much. Now I know how to repair my CD's. Being a collector of some of the rarest CD's you have made me very happy. You are a expert at what you do. God bless you my friend.
It's also much cheaper than having it done by a machine designed for the purpose.
U better back up those cds. By ripping their contents with a burner. Wait till you hear about disk rot.
@@isaiah4478 I have never had that happen. I have PS1 discs, that all still works perfectly. Not saying that disc rot is not a thing, but I have never experienced it, even with discs over 30 years old.
@@TucBroder it will happen to all cd's eventually, but storage conditions will impact it quite a bit. keep cd in cool/dry place with low humidity to mitigate disk rot
@@vinegreen3242 Yeah, that's what I'm doing. We'll see when it happens, but so far all my PS1 and PS2 games work perfectly...
For most light scratches, you could just skip right to the polishing machine. If you just polish it, and then there are still scratches, then you could start over from the sandpaper. Most of the time discs just have super light scratches on them. I would only bust out the sandpaper instuff if your scratches are pretty serious and wont go away with just a polish
It..it worked! I'm pretty blow away, I thought those games were not salvageable. The electric buffer is a must.
can you give us a link? :) so ppl can see what it looks like?
@@GameOverRank1 I don't have a buffing machine like yours but I do have a dremmel with buffing heads, can I use that?
@@jedistreaming4006 If u don't want your disc anymore, sure u can use that
@@nombreapellido9462 even at a low speed? The very low speed? I have buffing heads which are really soft.
@@jedistreaming4006 I'm joking, u can use that for sure
Wow, great information! I've replaced so many scratched DVDs but now I know how to repair them. Thank you for sharing.
I have done this for many years. Most of the time the mirror glaze is all you need. The sanding is only neccessary for heavy scratching. FYI: scratches on the art side will not hurt the disc at all, even though you can see light through it (unless of course they are so deep, they hit the aluminum). Good video, good advice!
May i ask what brand specific you use? I'm not gonna risk sanding my old cd's.. i know myself i'll just destroy them :D
@@jens8942 I use organic buffing compound.. specifically Aqua-Buff 2000. Call them up and ask for a sample and they'll send you enough to do 100's of discs. 3M compounds and others contain petroleum distillates and/or silica which is harmful to the plastic and your lungs so I don't use them. I follow up with Mother's Mirror Glaze. I finish with a synthetic spray wax, again Mother's brand. It works for most light surface scratching. Clean soft microfiber cloth for each step is necessary.
@@thishandleisnotavailable Thanks mate, gonna look it up and order it ! 👍👍
Ya, not sure why he using a paper towel after all that work to repair the disk. Paper towel are abrasive and cause more harm. Need to stick with a microfiber cloth.
LOL-ed when you said you used too heavy of a gauge of sandpaper and had to buff the disc for two hours. Can imagine how insanely frustrating that would be... thanks for making this video as I have a 20K plus CDs & DVDs that I’ve amassed since 2005. I buy them used and find stuff that’s very rare, slightly scratched up, and super expensive to buy on eBay. I have about 500 that need polishing and I can’t get them done for a $1 a disc at my local pawn shop anymore because Covid said “stay home bonehead.” Covid is very rude although, to be fair, my head is mostly bone. Thanks again.You rock!
@insane Nate He probably voted for Biden.
cant believe that shitshow was 2 years ago. still has masks lying around
You really did a great presentation. So easy to follow and enjoyed the video. Thank you
Watching this I really thought it made no sense however I decided to try it on my GTA5 that wasn't reading and was amazed that it actually worked. Big thank you man!
I did the sanding as shown but I used meguiar's compound to do the polishing since that's what I had.
im happy you made it work :)
You can rub the polish in by hand right and it still work?
@@TechMatticz I don't have a polishing machine so yes I did it by hand you got to apply Abit of pressure but be careful not to break it
did u use a polishing machine too? i dont have one
@@abdelbacchus549 what all did you use cause I want to repair a gta 5 disc as well
This was fascinating to watch,thank you for sharing ,as a massive collector of CD's this information will come in handy at some stage 👍
after watching all your progress, i decided to buy a used functional disc as replacement.
Dude what were you thinking when you make this video bro????..you make my day more by helping me get ridd of my dvd scratched.good job and doing this yo.because you are a professional at this keep on making these video because you are a winner dude.god love and tuff blessed up to you pro you are a handyman....🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
MAGIC!! - A real eye opener for me - I've got lots of work to do!! Thanks for sharing your insight.
This is the BEST video I've seen on fixing DVD scratches!
thank you :)
let me know if you gonna try it and need any advice
@@GameOverRank1what did u do to fix the dvd I wanna know ok thank you
Most scratches to discs occur because the user fails to place the disc properly on the carriage/carrier/drawer; this results in the carriage plastic scratching the disc. After going through all the trouble of resurfacing a disc, take your time putting discs into -- and taking them out of -- the player carriage.
Thanks for this excellent tutorial!
No, most scratches are due to the discs tossed around and not returned to their cases immediately after use.
Imagine getting a good cheap scratched game disc on Ebay or something, then do this, it'd be a win
😁😁
I mean I paid £2 for a £35 game buts its scratched to shit, whenever I get this stuff I will try to fix it lol
@@SimulationEvolve lol, that's like my way of doing crap, but at times I also fail...Or worse, don't know how to do it
That's exactly what I did with battlefront 2
@@loop5720 bro I got this 500 dollar rate game I found at my cousins and I want to fix it and re sell it
Normal people: Hey Becarefull not to scratch the CD or it wont work,
This guy: Proceeds to scratch the surface with 2000 grit, then 2500 grit and lastly a polish machien.
Thank you! I’m trying to help my man sort through his collection and make sure everything is good. I know a couple of games are scratched, so I’m going to try this. I appreciate this video and I’m sure he will as well!
Man we needed this 15 years ago 😔😔
THANKS! It actually worked! I didn’t have any power tools so it took a bit longer, but I ended up fixing two cds with this method so far. I recommended practicing first before moving on to any of your favorite games or anything just so you can get the hang of it.
thank you for your feedback :)
Finally after all the fake toothpaste "fixes" I found a real fix thanks man
Actually, the toothpaste fixes are not fake. Toothpaste is like polish, it has finer grit in it compared to a sand paper just like polish and we all know what polish is used for (:
Aaron Ryder I try it every time it doesn’t work
@@abdullahmufti I used toothpaste on my God of War 2 disc, which is very scratched, and it works. Though it still has the scratches, it works
check out my new video :D i will make one with toothpaste to
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Holy moly actually worked, left marks after doing it but scratches gone dvd does not skip anymore
Finally the video of tech usefulness I've been waiting for😌
Great video, I’ve been curious about this hand method for a while because I’ve honestly been really disappointed with mechanical cleaners many times but also need to take care of some more valuable games. Thanks for the content
Yeah, when you buy used games, the disc can sometimes look horrendous, like people have been taking them out in a sandstorm.
@@TucBroder I bought cod ww2 for £10 at GAME and theres so many scratches on it bruh, i cant even play past a certain mission because the game keeps shutting down 😭
@@edgarallanpoe209 😞
Hey man thanks for this video. I made just like you shown but in my case i just used the 2000 sand paper and automotive wax to give the proper shine.
Obrigado! 🤘😎🇧🇷
Amazing work! Thanks. Cheers from Brazil
Great job and guide
As a final step after polishing, I would wash the disc by hand with dishwashing liquid like Dawn or similar, or liquid hand soap, pat dry with clean towel
This puts a new meaning on my copy of jet grind radio
Dab the water off after sanding, don't rub with the paper towel. You're potentially adding more tiny scratches by rubbing with the paper. While not a huge deal, it's potentially adding more work. Better to use a regular kleenex. Also, the process is identical to headlight restoration. 3m quick headlight clearcoat does an amazing job when finishing the surface to rid the cloudiness and protect it.
Cheers to My fella, who had an amazing steady hand and record everything without moving
So much effort much effort and money involved in doing this
You are the Man! The dvd I had wasn't as bad as your example. After looking at another video I'd used toothpaste but did no good. Used metal polish and FANTASTIC! Many thanks.
What type of metal polish did you use? I was looking at Autosol brand.
Great tips there!
I love the MoH games - I've completed Frontline & Rising Sun (Gamecube) 😁👍🏻
WOW! Did not know you could do that. Glad I found you man !
Thank you for this video. it was very informative and easy to follow along 👍👍
I have massive a collection of games, including ones I will likely never play again so I am going to test this. UPDATE: tried it on my copy of Cardinal Syn for ps1 and it worked!!! The disc was read in my ps2! It does leave some super fine scratches but the disc works just fine
A very solid and well paced tutorial. Easy to follow and informative. I'll go try this with a couple old discs and hopefully it'll work.
im happy to hear that you like my guide :)
i also spent allot of time on the setup and the information.
if you have any questions just ask in the comments :)
How did it go?
@@Anonymouthfulbro never responded and it’s been 3 years 😢
We are still waiting on a update sir xD
Completely forgot I made this comment years ago lol. Been using this method with all my DVDs and CDs for a while now. Never fails to bring my discs back to life!
That's so sweet someone was holding the camera for you
Thanks for the tutorial. I used polish method only and works more or less...
IT WORKED!!!! I have a copy of Mario Kart: Double Dash that my girlfriend's father scratched because he was mad I was dating her. I let her borrow the game for a while and her friend found it in the bathroom drawer, completely ruined, but no see through damage scratches. I did your method with 2000 grit, and a bottle of Turtle Wax car polish white liquid, polishing it with the same hand sanding method. It took a few sandings and polishes, and I was almost giving up, then gave it a fourth go and it plays perfectly now! Thank you so much for your method.
that's a crazy story
I have had success with the 2500 or 3000 grit sandpaper followed by a product called Nev R Dull and then buff it further with Meguire's Scratch X 2.0 all of which can be picked up at any auto parts store. As a side note, you can also restore yellowed auto headlight fixtures this way.
Will try and report back. I was wondering if this was possible!!! Thank you for the descriptive video. Love it
Worked for my copy of Ocarina of time for GameCube, thanks for this video!
One thing I will point out to anyone who wants to give this a try.. DO NOT use paper towels(including tissues, toilet paper, etc). They are abrasive and can cause scratches of their own. It's best to use soft, lint-free cotton cloths or microfiber cleaning cloths meant specifically for cleaning cd's/dvd's/blu-rays.
People are 🤦🏻♂️ like how you can NOT feel that it’s rough. Gotta use common sense.
Brilliant! I resell items on eBay and now I can recondition games and such so my customers will be super happy.
Can’t wait to try this method thanks
I wish I would have seen this before! I have spent a lot of money on Ebay gadgets and creams with little or no success, and have thrown away countless games. Thanks for this post!
Total price to fix CD $438 Dollars, Satisfaction for being able to fix your nowadays useless CDs, Priceless...
Great Video 👍😁
Its worth it for albums or games you can't find other copies of. There's quite a few of my cds from when I used to go to local shows that I can't find copies of some of the bands albums to replace
Just a tip, kitchen towel is made from wood fibres so it's best to use a soft lint-free cloth like they use for jewellery.
Wow, I wanted to be able to do that. Thanks for making this tutorial.
Excellent instructions! Thanks so much. I will need to find the polishing compounds. I am surprised you do not wash with water between steps or dish detergent.
Thabk you so much.....now I can finally get back to my gaming sessions
Yeheyyy there's a chance that i can play my fav. Playstation this quarantine. I will do this THANKS 🙂
Did it work?
I thought this would work now I know for sure, thanks for the demonstration.
Thanks for this! I did everything except the polishing to finish. I have so many to restore so I can sell them!
How to repair disc: don't let children near them in the first place.
True dat
I tried
Hard to do that when you’re not around, then you come back and one of the games you spent the most time on has a fucking deep cut too damaging to be repaired.
YES! I bought a wii lot from a family, basically a ton of games and whatnot with the Wii, well I'm now noticing after gifting this to my daughter and playing it, all the games are scratched and some don't work. I flash back to when I picked it up and I saw at least 3 little ones near the door so.. I can thank them for me finding these fixes.. little jerks. My kid knows to take care of discs and she's not even 5 yet.
You don’t have kids huh? Mmm yea I can see that
Wow after it has been polished, I can see yourself now.
Thanks for the help, mate!!
I skipped the first two steps with sand paper, and I used just toothpaste 😄 it's working now 🙃
This worked! I did it by hand. It really didn't take me long at all. On a side note, I wouldn't recommend toothpaste at all.
I’m watching this to fix some of my wii cds 😂😂😂😂👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Moonlight Gachas that’s so weird I’m trying to do the same thing 😂
Omg same
Same force unleashed
Same
Moonlight Gachas same
It worked I literally needed to wash it thank u now I can play ping pong and sword play on wii sports resorts ❤️
Thx Man You Saved My Memories
Woah! I can do this manually w/o a machine😳😳 Thanks for the information.
It would be good to note that when you sand you shouldnt apply pressure with your finger tips it makes it uneven and deeper scratches be better off to use a piece of foam or something as a sanding block
This is a great video, if I ever need a disc resurfaced, I’m gonna go to this video,
Great instructional vid old bean
How nice of you to make video in English, thanks!
I thought it said covid repair. I'm going to study human psychology now. Good vid
It's best to use cotton !!!
Great job bro 👍
I only just found out this was possible, Thanks
I've always used Brasso metal polish and kitchen towel, it's very satisfying when you bring an unusable disc back to life!
Don't use paper towel to polish with. Paper scratches. Use something made of cotton.
exactly spends 3 hrs to polish then uses paper towel 🤦♀️ at least use microfiber
@RM - 06VK 845715 Fallingbrook MS yes cotton swap shouldn’t also be used? the best is a new micro fiber cloth, best are the ones used to clean glasses
Now I'll be able to play with my old Wii, thank you hahah
Good man, from Brazil
That is cool. I need to do this with a slightly scratched audio cd that I like. Thanks for this tip!!!
2020 anyone
had to get my copy of Animals by Pink Floyd playing again somehow
Harlem Pia Me keep getting scratches on my ps4 games
Harlem Pia Yes, I can see scratches.
yep
yep
Now to find a sacrificial CD
Even for being a 2 year’s ago video it really helped me thank you very much
Thanks for this, really useful information and good presentation
Good looking and smart!😍💯🙌🏼
Thank you for sharing this. So helpful.
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@@sleeperslepper7719 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sounds like someone likes to polish knobs.
Well, that wasn't too bad. You get my vote.
Thanks a lot for your method of resurfacing
That’s amazing I’m gonna try on old scratch versions of games I got awesome thanks 🙏🏻
Small but important things to remember: resurface and polishing needs to be done with chemical products specific for plastic polishing, otherwise you can damage plastic structure in a way it will be fragile and can crack over time, specially while spinning when playing on the console. Other important thing, if the scratches are too deep, but reparable, that will remove a tiny amount of plastic from the bottom layer, and it may make the laser head to be out of its reading patterns or even deregulate it as it will compensate the distance and the laser power to correctly read the disk. However, if you experienced or used scratched disks too much in the console, these damaged disks can also deregulate the laser lens / head. I would recommend to regulate the laser head or adjust also the laser power, and then resurface and polish all disks. This will make an evenly pattern of disk surface between the disks and will avoid the laser head to be compensating all the time. At the end, resurfacing disks won't damage or cause problems to the console, but it can deregulate it a bit in a way it may stop reading some disks after some months / years.
Man said small but important things but thx
Thanks 👍
Wouldn't this happen over time on old CD/DVD readers then. Since every brand/quality uses more/less plastic on the underside? Pretty sure CDr and DVDr are usually thinner than majority of regular DVD/CDs.
I measured a few CDs and got a few hundredths of a millimeter difference between each disk.
You said many things without providing any source. How do you know all that?
Everything you're claiming is not practical or within the skill set for basically anyone who has a scratched disc and just wants to get it to play. No one will know how to even begin to go about doing any of it.
I literally don't understand how a CD/DVD can end up looking like that... unless you purposely throw it away. Being a retro enthusiast, I still have 30 year old CDs that look as good as new.
That being said, I do appreciate this guide. It'll definitely help someone out there. :)
I also have a cd collection of over 1.5k and about 500 games and they all look new. I hate when I see a game or cd listed as in good condition on websites and it looks like the one in this video. Whomever taught people to care for cds and games these days, needs a good ass whooping. PUT THEM BACK IN THE CASE WHEN NOT IN USE! And DON'T TOUCH THE PLAY SURFACE!!!!
just played NFS2 on my good old ps2. Cant believe it has been 23 years since i bought it and still works :/
I bought a Wii game online for my collection and it was delivered scratched 😭
I've bought a lot of used games for my game collection, and some of them were just atrocious.
Both the cover and the disc. I mean... How do they end up looking like that?
That's real good I have a j f j easy pro and now I know what to do with both.
i would love to have a jfj easy pro :D the machine are really cool and can do all the steps i do in this video :)
Thank you bro! My Fifa 2004 for Xbox works again! Top stuff! 👌