I just had a CD-R explode in my computer drive. I've had the computer for less than a month already. Sounded like a gun went off. I took the drive out and cleaned it out, everything is working fine now, but man, what a freaky noise.
Anyone else have this happen to them? I know it can happen (obviously), but I mean how rare is it?
never heard of it. would take some serious pressure though. must have been the support arm that goes through the hole not being lined up well. sounds pretty odd anyway.
And on a side note, people have to stop getting worried about that cool story bro crap, takes away from your threads seriousness. I ask for and receive help on this forum for tons of varied areas and never see that kinda stuff.
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20th Century Fox DVDs were bad for that. The prongs in the cases that held the dvds in exerted too much force on the inside of the dvd. Spilt a few of them in my dvd player. Never had it happen with a CDR though.
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And on a side note, people have to stop getting worried about that cool story bro crap, takes away from your threads seriousness. I ask for and receive help on this forum for tons of varied areas and never see that kinda stuff.
This episode is a lie, I had a drive explode my Starcraft disc years ago, had to take the drive apart to get all the fragments.
How is it a lie?
Doesn't that episode support the fact that it can happen? especially with discs that are damaged? In my case, the disc was one I bought used (At Tramps even!) and it had very small cracks around the center.
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Doesn't that episode support the fact that it can happen? especially with discs that are damaged? In my case, the disc was one I bought used (At Tramps even!) and it had very small cracks around the center.
I didn't watch the video, just going on memory of the episode. I thought they stated that it couldn't happen because they had to get the disc up to speeds that no drive could reach in order to get it to break. I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time.
After puttering around even more yesterday on the computer after the drive busted up the CD, I noticed the next three or so CD's on the spindle of blank discs had small little cracks near the center hole. That's something I didn't check for before putting the disc into the drive, I never thought to do that.
Moral of the story: check your old spindles to make sure your discs aren't damaged.
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I didn't watch the video, just going on memory of the episode. I thought they stated that it couldn't happen because they had to get the disc up to speeds that no drive could reach in order to get it to break. I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time.
No, they had trouble getting their "drives" to spin up to 52X and 56X. However they were able to get discs to fail at the lower speeds.
And on a side note, people have to stop getting worried about that cool story bro crap, takes away from your threads seriousness. I ask for and receive help on this forum for tons of varied areas and never see that kinda stuff.
Haha I didn't realize the OP saying that. I literally thought he was saying the CD exploding was a cool story, I agreed.
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CD Just exploded inside my drive
