Any ideas?

 

My son's Indiana Jones 2 disc has a scratch like a circle the whole way around the disc, his sister knocked the shelf that it was on and it made a nasty noice.

 

It is some part playable, but it jumps and freezes a lot.

 

Please help.

Edited January 8, 201015 yr by WAYNE

Put a band-aid on it ?

 

Here all week, here alllllll week.

Some of the Gamestations round here do disc cleaning for a quid. Might be worth popping into your local one to see if they have one of the machines to do it?

 

You can buy them yourself, but I don't trust myself to carefully scrape a layer off the disc. Best off letting the people with the big expensive machine do it for you!

When I saw the title, I thought Scrathes were a baddie in an RPG I'd not yet heard of. :lol

I missed the C out :lol

 

Looks like I'm going to have to buy another copy as I think it's too deep to fix, but will try.

I personally have had some success with DiskDoctor. Basically, it's a fluid you spray onto the disk with a compression wheel to bond the fluid onto the disk. This evens out the top layers of the disk so that the laser is no longer incorrectly refracted by the scratch. It's sold at PCWorld and the like, and is simple enough once you get the jist of it. Unfortunatley, a deep scratch may actually penetrate beyond the level that products like this can repair, but there is no way of knowing, without trying it.

I personally have had some success with DiskDoctor. Basically, it's a fluid you spray onto the disk with a compression wheel to bond the fluid onto the disk. This evens out the top layers of the disk so that the laser is no longer incorrectly refracted by the scratch. It's sold at PCWorld and the like, and is simple enough once you get the jist of it. Unfortunatley, a deep scratch may actually penetrate beyond the level that products like this can repair, but there is no way of knowing, without trying it.

 

I use this liquid wheely thing myself. It's worked every time, but I'm in a spot of bother now, as I've run out of the liquid and, as fun as the wheelie thing is, it doesn't really help things by itself.

I personally have had some success with DiskDoctor. Basically, it's a fluid you spray onto the disk with a compression wheel to bond the fluid onto the disk. This evens out the top layers of the disk so that the laser is no longer incorrectly refracted by the scratch. It's sold at PCWorld and the like, and is simple enough once you get the jist of it. Unfortunatley, a deep scratch may actually penetrate beyond the level that products like this can repair, but there is no way of knowing, without trying it.

 

This is what i use £9.99 in most pound stretcher or games shops never had a scratch it could not fix great for cds and dvd's too. J-Rock most shops that sell them do the refills, in my shop the fluid is £1.50 might be worth having a look.

What's the difference between SkipDoctor Deluxe Disc Repair System and SkipDoctor Classic Disc Repair System?

 

Besides the price.

No idea they both do the same thing apart from the duluxe has 1x detailed instruction manual (requires 6 AA batteries, not included) additional to the classic version. No idea what you would use the batteries for. I just use the classic version myself.

Give it a good lick. Go on ya pervert.

Have you tried blowing on the cartridge and in the slot? That works a treat for my megadrive.

Have you tried blowing on the cartridge and in the slot? That works a treat for my megadrive.

 

YES!

 

And would solve all memory card issues as well.

What's the difference between SkipDoctor Deluxe Disc Repair System and SkipDoctor Classic Disc Repair System?

 

Besides the price.

 

I believe, though I'm not sure, that the classic is a hand crank and the deluxe uses a motor to drive the mechanism.

 

Is it just me, or does that sound a bit dirty ?:lol

I believe, though I'm not sure, that the classic is a hand crank and the deluxe uses a motor to drive the mechanism.

 

Is it just me, or does that sound a bit dirty ?:lol

That would explain the batteries but serieously if you can not turn a handle 6 times then my god.

it depends which side it;s scratched. most scratches on the shiny side canb be repaired, scratches on the "label" side usually mean dead disc since the information is actually closer to the label side than the shiny side.

Shiny side.

might be alright then. I had a colleague who used brasso to repair scratches. apply a little to a clean cloth and buff in very very small circles over a scratch and it really does help!