Some folks swear by those expensive commercial repair kits. Some folks swear by Brasso. Or even toothpaste. Funny how some people get married to commercial CD repair kits. Over the years, I've bought ...

Which disc cleaner is best? While the sale of physical copies of video games, music and other forms of CDs has fallen drastically since the introduction of digital media purchases, any Millennial or ...

You need to resurface the disc. No software will read through scratched plastic. Go get some brasso and rub it on the disc in small circular motions with a cloth. Use a clean piece of cloth to wipe ...

Rubbing Vaseline on scratched CDs to make them readable again is a new one to me, but Instructables has a DIY project up claiming it works perfectly. Mind you, they also say peanut butter works a ...

This article was taken from the February 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...