how does one "boil" a disk?

[mst3k_stud]

my xbox isn't reading a game i have. i heard that boiling the disk may solve this problem. how do i "boil" the disk? thanks.

[Murcielago77]

supposedly you hook the cd to something and boild it for like 3 seconds. It is supposed to melt a protective layer on the cd

[bmulligan]

Yes, and 80 grit sandpaper will have that disk playing like new !!!

and don't forget the 'microwave' trick !

[mousin]

i think its better if you put your xbox in there, for about 10 secs, and dry off. that would solve everything, if not rub a ballloon on your head, and put it on the mother board

[suko_32]

Hey, I heard that microsoft is buying nintendo! (Yeahright)

[Darke Katt]

Don't forget to put a kitten in there along with the disc.

If you can't tell by now stud, this whole thread is nothing but sarcasm. Boiling and microwaving your discs will destroy them and waste your money. The only real way to fix them is to buy those 'disc doctors', but even those may not work and make your disc worse.

[Cracka]

no no, you throw the disc into a roaring fire, and then you TOSS the boiling water on the disc to put the fire out. Then you gotta snap the disc into 4 equally sized pieces.

[Zmonkay]

Ok, ok, this can get a little expensive, but is guaranteed to work. All you need is a little plutonium, and nuklear reactor, and a little know-how. Ok, start up your nuke with the plutonium, put the disc in, and when the computor asks if you want to play a game, type Y-E-S.

[daphatty]

Rub some poo on it. Make sure it has lots of peanuts in it cause you'll need some abrasiveness to get out the imperfections of the disc. :rofl:

[rajchakrabarti]

just eat the disc

[bignick]

Will boiling a disc really work? I guess I'll try it on a cdr. Im really curious about this.

[rajchakrabarti]

I read this on another site,, not sure if it will work, but better then eatting the disk....

I had similar experiences but with the CD-ROMs. One of my friend gave me few CDs and I kept it in the sack without the covers. I was totally lost about the it and after few days, all the CDs were having scratched and cannot be detected.

Now I was in a trouble, as the valuable data on the CD's cannot be recovered. But I was knowing the information about CD-ROMs that the actual data is written on the other side (silver coat below label) and not on the clear surface. I thought to give a try and polish the clear surface by applying some oil. So I applied the some oil and rubbed in circular motion for some time and then wiped out the excess oil. And wow, the CD got detected and the first thing I did was to get all the data to my HDD.

Not to forget to remove the excess oil, other wise it may harm the CD drive.

[BigLebowski]

Heh, Heh... daphatty said poo...

[magilacudy]

just eat the disc

Hah. Yes. I think I will try that.

[SilveRaven]

just eat the disc

I like my food cooked, I assume so does the OP since he was inquiring about boiling the disk. I prefer mine baked, but you could definately boil it.

[The Successful Dropout]

boil a pot of water, pour it in your mouth and start licking the disc

[MeGaWC27]

bury it in soil, then water it with boiling water for at least 3 days straight.

[Indiana]

No you got it all wrong. You just burn down the house.... that will fix that damn Xbox problem for sure!

[Indiana]

Will boiling a disc really work? I guess I'll try it on a cdr. Im really curious about this.

A CDR is not stamped like a normal CD so I would guess the data on the top side would just end up pealing off the cd.

[Ikohn4ever]

dip it in a vat of sulfuric acid, rinse, repeat

[Xevious]

Rub some poo on it. Make sure it has lots of peanuts in it cause you'll need some abrasiveness to get out the imperfections of the disc. :rofl:

Thats sick! Funny....but sick!

[Cornfedwb]

This does not work for a scratched disc. What it does work for is demo discs that won't play out of the box. Demo discs come with a protective chemical coating (to prevent random mishaps during shipping), some dvd-rom drives have a problem reading through said coating.. boiling the disc for a few seconds removes this coating.

[bignick]

What about wet sanding 1000 grit sand paper.

[Negative]

I am boiling a disc as we speak. I also threw in some fresh carrots, onions, and one animated talking rabbit. Anyone up for some Halo Stew?

[D4rkewolfe]

Man, am I the only one who remembers the whole Microwave idiots and boiling discs from OPM last year. People asking for their money back to OPM cause they stuck it in the microwave and it messed up the game...no way..how could that happen?

Mmmmm Halo Stew, stick some Pokemon Cartridges for that extra Pikachu spark.

[Stargun007]

Why were people boiling OPM discs? Or did they get the idea from there as some kind of April Fools joke?

[Tom]

Why were people boiling OPM discs? Or did they get the idea from there as some kind of April Fools joke?
Many people also did this with OXM disks, I think the reason they didn't work was because they got too hot during shiiping and got put out of shape, so they were boiled for like 3 seconds and laid on a flat surface, after it was dry it worked.

[LeviathynX]

I think you should get your cd drunk and take advantage of it when you get back to the frat house!

[Strell]

There is a trick that you can supposedlyt put your CD in a toilet (obviously a recently flushed one) and the swirling motion of a flush will effectively buff a CD and remove minor scratches, fixing it.

I've never done that so I have no idea.

The best thing to do these days is to get those d-skin.com things that you attach to a CD. Protects it but you can still read it. I'm going to buy about a million of them.

[rajchakrabarti]

i go back to my original statement,, just eat it raw