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Cleaning a Cd-Rom

Cork · 2004-04-09 19:29:14

Cleaning a Cd-Rom What is the best product to use when cleaning a cd rom? My cd player also needs a clean? Are all the products available of equal quality?

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09-04-2004 8:29pm

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Cleaning a Cd-Rom
What is the best product to use when cleaning a cd rom?
My cd player also needs a clean?

Are all the products available of equal quality?

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#2 09-04-2004 8:32pm
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do you realy need to clean cd-roms?
iv never had to

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#3 09-04-2004 10:06pm
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cd drive cleaners are not recomemded if it's a rewriter - heads are more delcate or something.

wipe along radial lines (across the tracks) - this way error correction might recover from small scratches - from the centre to edge
don't wipe along the tracks - ie holding the cloth and turning the cd

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