We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While physical media isn't as popular as it once was, most people own at least a few discs, whether they're old music CDs they grew up loving ...

I've used "Novus", a two-step plastic polish/cleaner sold by the local Plexiglas distributor, on CD scratches with excellent results. Any thing that's labelled for use on polycarbonate (= Lexan) ...

That's the only kind of damage the scratch repair kits can't do anything about.<P>I tried the wax thing on a CD years ago, and it completely screwed up the CD. It went from skipping on a couple of ...

Reader Joe Feil’s daughter faces an age-old conundrum—you’ve got your repair CD at the ready, but your media drive appears to be on the fritz. He writes: My daughter’s Mac doesn’t recognize CDs when ...