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Scratch CD's
toadlife:
--- Quote from: Lead Head ---@ Toad, would higher grit paper like 1200 or even 2000 grit work?
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The grit has to be low enough to remove the existing scratches. 1200-2000 is very high, so I'm not sure if it would work.
mobrien_12:
Thanks, Toadlife for the very detailed discussion.
Something else to consider. Many used CD stores have buffers and polishes for fixing up the CDs they sell. They will usually fix up your CD's for you for a fee, which you can consider if you don't have the necessary tools (and patience).
Xeniczone:
--- Quote ---are you sure it's the disc when I had a PS2 a few years back it slowly stopped reading most of my discs (until I opened it and cleaned the lens)
by the way, I just got BF2 and it pwns
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it is the disk, I have tested it with call of duty works fine. I got my ps2 for free the person gave it to me saying it didn't read controllor just a quick fix to the controllor port and it worked fine :)
Yeh, BF2 does rock best game ever (computer version best)
Just to make sure you know I have been using test cds. I haven't even touched the origanal disk yet. just some aol cds that have come in the mail. the sand paper I used was fine sand paper it said 100 on it. the test cd using wet sanding is not really scratch just looks kind of you know crystalized a kinda whitened look. I will try some silver polish or something to remove that and see if the cd works. to represent the scratches on my cd I took a cd-r or aol cd that came in the mail and then took a nice nife and made it light to heavy scratches on it.
Aloone_Jonez:
[OFFTOPIC]What's the correct spelling of disk/disc?
Is one US and the other UK or can you spell it either way?
Or is a disk a floppy disk and a CD a compact disc?[/OFFTOPIC]
Orethrius:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---[OFFTOPIC]What's the correct spelling of disk/disc?
Is one US and the other UK or can you spell it either way?
Or is a disk a floppy disk and a CD a compact disc?[/OFFTOPIC]
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[offtopic]IIRC, technically speaking, "disk" is shorthand for floppy "diskette" whereas "disc" is shorthand for "discus" - the former being based on the original term, the latter being a loose description of the device. The two are used interchangeably nowadays, often by people claiming one to be the Anglican spelling, but I doubt that such a claim is valid, as I've seen no evidence in recent Oxford entries to support it.[/offtopic]
EDIT: Having re-checked Merriam-Webster and Oxford Compact, it would appear that the two agree.
Oxford "Disc (2)" has the notation that the word is "disk" when referring to "an information storage device for a computer, on which data is stored either magnetically or optically" while Webster's "disk(1,noun) (4c)" denotes a disk as "a round flat plate coated with a magnetic substance on which data for a computer is stored."
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