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Originally Posted by Dogway
I can't see the tab Disc Quality in DiscSpeed, instead there is ScanDisc. I checked an 8 years old DVD in scandisc and "surface scan" was 100%, everything green, surprised. Is there a way to check my discs quality, (even with my shitty drive)?
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Maybe you have an OEM version of Nero which includes cut-down versions of some programs?
You can download the latest version here but I'm not sure if it's a full free version.
http://www.nero.com/enu/tools-utilities.html
It seems odd someone would claim you can't test the quality of a disc given the availability of software for just that purpose, and given the same person has posted screen shots of tests they've run on their own discs. Nero doesn't actually give the quality as a percentage as has been mentioned earlier but it does give a disc a "quality score". Anything over 90 should be easily readable.
Maybe quality tests aren't 100% accurate, and of course not all drives are capable of reporting errors correctly, but they're certainly a pretty good guide as to the quality of the disc.
There's another program for running disc quality checks here, but I don't think it's free.
http://www.cdspeed2000.com/