PM>PM>Remember when CDs first came out, they said you can scratch them and put
PM>PM>fingerprints on them and they will still play OK. Well it's not true!

PM> JE> I think it is basically true. I have numerous CDs with
PM> JE> scratches and smudges on the data side and they read from
PM> JE> multiple drives just fine. You just canNOT scratch the
PM> JE> the other side at all. Even the slightest pinhole can/will
PM> JE> render the CD unreadable.

PM>Are you talking about the side that has the label? Is is possible to just blank
PM>out the scratch with a special marker pen?

Yes that is the side I am talking about. Hold the CD up to a
bight light and look at it from the other side. If you can
see even the slightest pin hole in the CD NOTHING will fix
it. The data is recorded on the material that the label
printing is over. Once that material is breached that's all
there is to it. The scratch has actually removed some of the
data.

Jay
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