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CD Deterioration
Chippy_Minton_2
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I have a number of CD’s recently taken out of storage and I am in the process of loading them onto itunes. One or two of them haven survived storage to well and will not load. When you look at the disc it is clouded as if hair spray had been sprayed on it, however it is not on the surface of the disc, it’s under the plastic. Are these discs a write off?
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Normally CD's are ok unless the topside is scratched (the opposite to the side that people worry about scratching.
When you say "clouded", do you mean like water marks inside on the reflective part of the CD?“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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It's sometimes known as 'CD rot'.Chippy_Minton wrote: »Yes, that would describe it.
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I'm not entirely sure how useful it will be but I have bought a few games off eBay recently and the cd's have arrived with minor damage on them.
To fix this I have taken them to my local GameStation store who have a 'cd cleaning machine' thing. It basically spins the disk buffering it as it goes.
They charge £1.99 per disk in order to do this so you may have to decide what the value of the CD's is to you and it is not guaranteed to work but it may be something for you to look into as it's still cheaper than buying new CD's.Laptop: Asus X58L; 2Ghz Celeron M575; 1Gb RAM; Intel X3100 Graphic chip set; 120Gb Hitatchi HTS542512K; 15.4" Widescreen. Vista Home Basic
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I suspect that Acerider's excellent suggestion won't work with the OP's problem as the disc cleaning process used there polishes the plastic, whereas if the problem is under the plastic (i.e. if it's CD Rot or the Aluminium recorded layer oxidising) then it won't make a difference - the cloudyness will still be there.
Thanks for the tip though, Acerider; I have a couple of CD's that it would be worth paying the £1.99 to get de-scratched!
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Yea I don't know a great deal about CD rot as it's never something I've come across but it was the only thing I could of that could assist with damaged cd'sLaptop: Asus X58L; 2Ghz Celeron M575; 1Gb RAM; Intel X3100 Graphic chip set; 120Gb Hitatchi HTS542512K; 15.4" Widescreen. Vista Home Basic
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