RS> Sometimes they can be saved. If the scratches
RS>are on the label side, the discs are probably
RS>goners; but, if they're on the other side, you
RS>can probably polish them out far enough to be
RS>readable.

JE> Not probably, but positively.

JE> Jay

RS> If you're saying that any scratch on the label
RS>side means that the disc is a goner you are
RS>mistaken. It depends upon where and how large
RS>the scratch(es) are.

JE> I am saying that any scratch or even a pinhole
JE> in the data area of a CD makes it a goner. I thought
JE> that it was understood we were talking about scratches
JE> in the data area.

 I have a few music CD's with "factory defects"
in the data areas that play fine.

 Music data is recorded with error correction
so that some information can be totally missing
and yet the music still plays without an error.

 If too much (or critical) data is missing, the
error correction can not function and the disc
(or that part of it) is toast.

 I don't know if non-music CD's are recorded
with a similar error correction or not; but, I
would expect them to be.

 TTYL.

 Robert

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