what is the best WAY to clean a DISC???

[Core7]

Hi there U have heard of so many ways how to clean a disc, but witch one is the best???

 

[wullthebull]

what disk???????????????????????????

 

[whs]

You have to tell us a little more of what you are trying to accomplish.

 

[HMonk]

Disk v. Disc

If you follow tradition, the term disc refers to optical media, disk refers to magnetic media.

I assume you are wanting to clean optical media (CDs/DVDs). I wash (fingers or microfiber cloth only) with a 50/50 water/isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol solution - to remove grease (fingerprints). I then rinse in plain water and dry with a microfiber cloth. More expensive would be to dry with lens paper. If you rinse with distilled water you could probably air dry without getting water spots (the reason for drying)

Monk

 

[seekermeister]

Whatever you do, stay away from preparations for disc cleaning, all that I have found are nothing more than water, with perhaps a trace of alcohol, but not enough for cleaning. They are a waste of money.

 

[windrider]

I do like the above posters said, but I also only wipe from Center of disc straight out.
I don't wipe in circles if you know what I mean.

 

[pparks1]

I use the same thing to clean my computer keyboards, monitors, laptops and discs...it's a 50/50 mix of 70-80% isopropyl alcohol with distilled water and a microfiber cloth.

 

[meddylad]

As said, use a mixture of 50/50 Isopropyl Alcohol & Deionised Water (dont use hand sanitizer - it contains IPA but also mosturisers which cause surface to grease up ang give read errors - i get my IPA from eBay - 100% pure n just dilute it with 50% deionised water). Deionised water can be bought from most stores (Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's etc as its used for putting in irons & car batteries) - dont use tap water as it contains minute traces of minerals which over time can scratch the surface

Lastly, dont rub in a circular motion, as this can cause read errors and make the disc unreadable. Start from the centre hole and work your way out to the outside - repeat this all the way round.

Quite in depth, but this also applies to TFT screens - works a charm - just remember - 50% PURE Isopropyl Alcohol & 50% DEIONISED water

 

[steve-pressman]

I am betting he means a Hard Drive

Steve

 

[karlsnooks]

Steve,
I bet your correct.

However, before making a suggestion more info is needed.

I'm looking forward to his next post.

But basically, either a DiskPart Clean command or SDelete from the SysInternals Suite or simply a wipe with CCleaner, however, we must await his reply.

 

[steve-pressman]

I am using a program called P-Magic which is cool to use All in one tool

Downloads

Steve

 

[harpua]

Speaking of hard drives, it also depends if by "clean" the op means securely (destructively) erase so that the original data cannot thereafter be recovered by any means. If that is what the OP meant by "clean" then there are several utilities that will perform this operation with varying degrees of user selectable thoroughness. I bet there are some free utilities that can do this but off the top of my head, the ones that come to mind are the "file/disk shredder" utility in "Acronis True Image Home" (under disk utilities) and a similar function residing in an app called "Tuneup Utilities 2010."

 

[Lordbob75]

Speaking of hard drives, it also depends if by "clean" the op means securely (destructively) erase so that the original data cannot thereafter be recovered by any means. If that is what the OP meant by "clean" then there are several utilities that will perform this operation with varying degrees of user selectable thoroughness. I bet there are some free utilities that can do this but off the top of my head, the ones that come to mind are the "file/disk shredder" utility in "Acronis True Image Home" (under disk utilities) and a similar function residing in an app called "Tuneup Utilities 2010."

DBAN is the one I have used, quite successfully.

~Lordbob

 

[Krispy1]

to physically clean a cd or dvd media like mentioned just water and some rubbing alcohol mixed is fine not much is needed

for the removal of data and getting a fresh start on a hard drive dban works great. may take long but securely erases and makes the drive like new

 

[karlsnooks]

Speaking of hard drives, it also depends if by "clean" the op means securely (destructively) erase so that the original data cannot thereafter be recovered by any means. If that is what the OP meant by "clean" then there are several utilities that will perform this operation with varying degrees of user selectable thoroughness. I bet there are some free utilities that can do this but off the top of my head, the ones that come to mind are the "file/disk shredder" utility in "Acronis True Image Home" (under disk utilities) and a similar function residing in an app called "Tuneup Utilities 2010."

I agree. "Cleaning" a drive has many interpretations. The "thoroughness" of the clean is a big factor. Some people want a clean that even a german Hausfrau would approve of whereas others are quite content with a simple overwrite of the existing files.

The Hausfrau comment is meant to be highly complimentary.

 

[HMonk]

He said "disc" not disk. Gosh, I hope he doesn't take his HDD apart and wash it in alcohol.

 

[DocBrown]

He said "disc" not disk. Gosh, I hope he doesn't take his HDD apart and wash it in alcohol.

I think there is another Thread about alcohol & computers not mixing :huh:

http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/51727-beer-pcs-do-not-mix.html#post478840

 

[harpua]

Speaking of hard drives, it also depends if by "clean" the op means securely (destructively) erase so that the original data cannot thereafter be recovered by any means. If that is what the OP meant by "clean" then there are several utilities that will perform this operation with varying degrees of user selectable thoroughness. I bet there are some free utilities that can do this but off the top of my head, the ones that come to mind are the "file/disk shredder" utility in "Acronis True Image Home" (under disk utilities) and a similar function residing in an app called "Tuneup Utilities 2010."

DBAN is the one I have used, quite successfully.

~Lordbob

DBAN sounds good if one wants to wipe the entire drive (and thanks for the recommendation), however, it should also be noted that these other utilities I mentioned above have the added advantage that they can be used to selectively wipe specific folders (optionally including sub-folders) or files rather than only the entire drive. This can be very handy if one only needs to securely erase, say a particular user account and perhaps wants to keep the machines on disk recovery software operational, so that immediately after one has securely erased only the sensitive data residing on the drive, (which likely would also be faster than wiping the entire drive), one can then recover the computer for sale or return. I have found this particular sequence of operations to be very convenient on several occasions recently where I wanted to get the erasing done quickly and return a machine with the factory load installed and didn't want to have to burn the recovery disks.

 

[Krispy1]

He said "disc" not disk. Gosh, I hope he doesn't take his HDD apart and wash it in alcohol.

why not?? at least hell get a free coaster out of it

 

[kucing13]

and the thread starter missing in action