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How to Piss off Your CDs and Make Them Smile Again
Written by: Michael Mardings
Fix them and break them
When it comes to CDs, people talk about saving the data and sometimes destroying the data. Let's look at two options.
The first step is how to piss off your CDs and DVDs. I have on my desk the Data Destroyer, which essentially looks like a rather small fax machine. Take a CD or DVD and feed it into the machine, which then makes hundreds of tiny little pin pricks throughout your disk, making it unreadable.
This is done in place of breaking the disk by stepping on it. The disc actually still has the data (but not in two pieces).
After using the Data Destroyer, the disc won't work at all. Seems pretty effective.
Well, how about using Digital Innovation's SkipDR Motorized Disc Cleaner? Spray the disc with the Resurfacing Fluid, stick it in the SkipDR and in about a minute it resurfaces.
The first disc we tried to fix was an old music CD that I gloriously stepped on and scratched on the concrete outside. After 30 seconds of scratching, I put it in the radio just to make sure it skipped. It skipped a lot.
After a minute in the SkipDR it was working fine. The good news with the SkipDR is that it works really well, the bad news is that the liquid needs to be replaced after 50 or so uses.
Anyway, the SkipDR actually fixed a total of five different discs that we treated quite poorly. The sixth disc was the one destroyed by the Data Destroyer, which it couldn't salvage.
The discs were not not happy.
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