Scratched disc solution!

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blacklemons

The Freeman
Ok, so I have been pretty upset, as my Halo 2 disc was scratched by my friends Xbox 360, and it had a scratch all the way around. I looked up a solution, and I read that rubbing toothpaste on the back of the disc (to fill in the cracks, i suppose?) will fix the disc. Alas, I rubbed some Crest on the back of the disc, and wiped it off, and the disc works like brand new! I also read that you can use orange juice, peanut butter, hair gel, and a banana.

NOTE - I'm not talking about my Halo 3 disc, as that is being replaced for free by Microsoft and their Scratched Discs Program.

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Um, I tried this on a very badly scratched Vice City disc and to my surprise it seems to have worked :o Thanks!
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
Wow, that's crazy. I would think those little crystals in the toothpaste would just scratch it more.
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It's the basic white toothpaste. Not the stuff with those sand blast-type crystals in it.
 
Dart said:
It's the basic white toothpaste. Not the stuff with those sand blast-type crystals in it.
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Yeah, like this:

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Works like a charm, played my Halo 2 disc all of last night with my bud and some today.
 
I rubbed crest on the one of my games that wouldn't even get to the main menu and now it works flawlesslly. It really works.
 
fhqwhgads said:
I'm not sure it's possible to rub toothpaste wrong...
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It's possible that you cleaned it off wrong, with the wrong kind of cloth, or used the wrong type of toothpaste. Worked fine for me and a lot of others.
 
Cleaned it with a scratch preventing cloth(mainly used for computer screens), used toothpaste with no crap in it, used only enough toothpaste to lightly coat it.
 
Yeah, I was thinking maybe it was the way the GCN discs were made.
 
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