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| Thread ID: 56649 | 2005-04-11 10:32:00 | Shattered CD in drive!!! | Monkfish (7860) | Press F1 |
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| 343711 | 2005-04-11 10:32:00 | :angry Went to change music CD in drive and when tray opened found a shattered CD in there!!! Obviously wasn't able to locate all the pieces - what to do now!! Is this a warranty problem - suppliers don't think so! It was a Kiri Te Kanawa CD - I didn't know her music was that shattering!!! Any advice? |
Monkfish (7860) | ||
| 343712 | 2005-04-11 10:39:00 | Had this happen to a mate with a HP and not suprisingly they didnt want to know either not there problem they said. open cd, turn off comp , take out cd reader. turn upside down and remove (shake rattle and roll ) all visible bits, vacumn it as well. You will still probably have flakes of the cd floating around in the guts of it but you may be lucky. I had to strip the cd (actually a cd writer) right down and clean before it would read again properly. |
the highlander (245) | ||
| 343713 | 2005-04-11 10:52:00 | Its caused by faulty CD's so it isn't a drive issue. As Highlander said, rip her apart, clean it out. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 343714 | 2005-04-11 20:33:00 | Never heard of that happening prior to this,how common is it? Or maybe they come via Iraq :) |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 343715 | 2005-04-11 21:02:00 | have heard of the same problem a few years ago and was told it was because the drive was spinning at such high speed the cd couldn't handle it sounds like a media problem | plod (107) | ||
| 343716 | 2005-04-11 21:08:00 | A slight crack or slightly deeper scratch may cause a CD to shatter in a drive, when spinning at high-speed. Labels etc. may also throw the CD off balance. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 343717 | 2005-04-12 06:00:00 | I had this happen to my brother a while ago, I do not hink it was the cd though, because the cd was fine for other machines and that machine until one day. All what we heard was a big bang, we couldnt figuer out what it was, so we just dismissed it, turned out it was the cd shattering at high speeds. The cd shattered into millions of tiny bits, the little parts flying around most probably will destroy the laser, rendering the cdrom drive useless. This is a manafactures problem, because it is caused by the cdrom spining at extremely high speeds and becoming off balance (disastureous). |
ILikeLinux (1669) | ||
| 343718 | 2005-04-12 06:05:00 | Never heard of that happening prior to this,how common is it? Or maybe they come via Iraq :) Same here. Didn't know that CD can break up easily... Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 343719 | 2005-04-12 06:05:00 | might aswell get a new one, your never gonna get every single bit of cd out of there | Prescott (11) | ||
| 343720 | 2005-04-12 06:13:00 | A shattered cd is not a cd drive problem its a cd problem.. At 52x speed those suckers are spinning fast and any inherent flaw or defect or simply downright dodgy media will cause it to shatter. ( a great video on the net which I can't find demostrates the fragility of them at high spped by attaching them to a dremel and spinning them at 40,000 rpm, the mearest brush up against them with a soft object caused them to explode like a fragmentation grenade. The scatter pattern was circular due to the centrifugal forces which was lucky for the widget who was holding it.) I 've had cd drives score media, eat it, chew them but I have never had one shatter them on a consistent basis. The drive I mentioned above had the cd blast in to a million bits. After a good clean it still works and burns cds 12 months later. I have done a few others and they have all still worked (granted with slightly graunchy drive eject. | the highlander (245) | ||
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