Disc Repair

How do you repair my disc?

What can be repaired? – Any scratched disc - whether it be a disc of holiday snaps, your favourite episode from the box set, a game you can’t live without …..all can be repaired (unless of course it’s broken in half!)..those wedding photos aren’t lost forever!

Why repair scratched discs? – Why throw them away if they can be fixed? You don’t have to pay to replace your favourite CDs/DVDs or games discs.

We use industrial optical disc repair machines that offer the best results all the time. Why risk your disc's with a cheap ebay cleaner gadget that dont work?


How Do Discs Get Scratched?
Although CDs and DVDs are convenient to use and commonplace today, they can be easily damaged through normal handling, use in inexpensive CD or DVD players, car CD changers or stored in poorly designed cases.

While scuffed or scratched CDs or DVDs may still be playable, the player is likely to struggle to decode the data and commonly results in skipping and stuttering. More severe damage will cause discs to not even load or be recognised.

Our machines remove the damage that causes these problems, as well as damage that is purely cosmetic.

Disc Construction
A disc is generally made up of four layers. The first layer is the thickest and easiest to repair. However, the other three layers combined (reflective foil, lacquer, and graphic) are only as thin as a human hair and offer little or no protection to the data beneath them.

Graphic Layer (layer 1)
A layer of ink is screened onto the lacquer layer for dynamic graphic and/or sales impact. (Recordable CDs don't have this layer)

Lacquer Layer (layer 2)
Lacquer is dripped onto the disc and spun at high speed to create a thin layer of sealant for the foil layer. This seals in the foil layer, but offers little or no protection for the data beneath.

Reflective Foil Layer (layer 3)
A micro thin layer of aluminium (copper, silver or gold on higher quality CDs) is applied to the top of the CD covering the data. This layer reflects the laser beam back through the plastic disc, allowing the stamped data to be read.

Polycarbonate Plastic Disc (layer 4)
Data is stamped on the topside of a plastic disc creating millions of “on” and “offs” or zeros and ones. It is this layer that our machines treat. The grinding machines remove an extremely thin layer, exposing the fresh plastic behind it.

How Does Disc Repair Work on Scratched Discs?
CDs, DVDs and Games discs are made of polycarbonate plastics (just like plastic lenses in safety glasses) and are manufactured through a moulding process that makes the disc perfectly flat. This perfectly flat surface enables a laser beam to pass up and reflect back off the foil layer and retrieve the digital information that is stamped onto the top side of the disc. A scratch, fingerprint or some foreign object that blocks or diverts the path of the laser beam (picture on the right) often causes the disc to skip or freeze as the data is not correctly communicated back to the player.