Peripheral's specialist Pinpoint Consumer Electronics has launched two new advanced disc repair systems that promise to repair scratched discs in under a minute, setting the new world standard in ...

I brought my little bro to work today, and I was hoping to let him pound away on Diablo II here today. Come to discover that the <I>play disc</I> has a nasty scratch on it. I can no longer install ...

If you have a CD or DVD that won’t play because it’s covered in dust and scratches, a little forehead grease will get it working again. Now that’s using your head.

We've all known about a busted Xbox 360's ability to not only self-destruct, but to also trash any games you place into the console. Bumps, vibrations, or any kind of movement while a game is being ...

Hardware deficiencies have been an ongoing issue for Microsoft's Xbox 360. For its part, the publisher copped to one of the most egregious issues in June 2007, saying it would take a $1.05 billion hit ...

This article was taken from the February 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...

So far the Xbox 360 has had its fair share of hardware problems, both large and small, and while Microsoft has dealt with most of these challenges by extending warranties and offering up free fixes, ...

Presenting the GameDR AutoMax, a device that allegedly repairs scratches and nicks on disks in 60 seconds. Whether or not it can actually rectify the titanic circular gouge the Xbox 360 inflicts on ...

Although it's usually the Xbox 360 RROD (Red Ring of Death) problem that gets all of the headlines, some players have also suggested that the console's disc drive is broken too, as small vibrations or ...

There are a variety of scratch removal devices for CDs and DVDs, but whoever thought of using such a readily available foodstuff—that proof of creation itself, the everyday banana? Watch the video to ...

Will I get any performance gains by installing a second hard drive that's exclusively for Photoshop to use as a scratch disk? If I also set up that second hard drive to be the Windows swap file, will ...