Wisely from the trenches spake John thusly: > From: J Sand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Are you having hassles installing Jaguar?? > > >> Use tissues or a disk cleaning cloth, or get them polished at a video >> store. > > I have successfully used toothpaste ( it has a fine abrasive in it) and > water to polish some of the defects from CDs. As the author of the original > post said, go from the edge to the center and back-- DO NOT GO IN CIRCLES !! > Most CD-ROM drives can recover one or two errors on a read, but a bunch in > a row will make the disk unusable. Try this method on a "bad" audio CD, the > skipping is usually eliminated. > We've cleaned several students' data disks this way also (CDs thrown into the turmoil of a college student's backpack are esp. dirty!) - Sensodyne works esp. great, and it leaves the CD minty fresh! Best regards, Dana
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