CD shattered inside drive

[HauntFox]

I had a cd that was cracking a little around the center hole, so I put it in my drive to make a copy of it. It spins up and I hear a loud snap followed by a grinding noise and small bits of plastic flying around inside. I quickly press eject and see parts of the cd in the tray in pieces. I had to take apart the drive to get the rest of the pieces out, there was a ton of them. The paper-thin ribbon cable that goes from the laser to the circuit board had a small cut in it, and after putting the drive back together, it wouldn't read anything anymore.

Moral of the story, don't ever put a cracked CD in a high speed drive, heh.
Good thing they're pretty cheap.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

TTIUWP...
Tas.

 

[corkyg]

Glad it worked out - this has happened many times on this forum - we keep re-learning the same lesson. 🙂

 

[middlehead]

I had one of those business card size CDs bust in a DVD drive a few years ago. Twas a recruitment disc from Yale, and the bastards wouldn't pay to replace the drive.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: middlehead
I had one of those business card size CDs bust in a DVD drive a few years ago. Twas a recruitment disc from Yale, and the bastards wouldn't pay to replace the drive.

That's why you use a program to set the drive speed to 16X or 8X 😀

 

[suicidalpigeon]

dude wheres the :camera:'s?

 

[Mrvile]

:thumbsup:

Enjoy.

This was actually in Maximum PC once, in the Geek Quiz article. Good times.

 

[thirdlegstump]

I've done this before MANY times. It's fun.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: ariafrost

Originally posted by: middlehead
I had one of those business card size CDs bust in a DVD drive a few years ago. Twas a recruitment disc from Yale, and the bastards wouldn't pay to replace the drive.

That's why you use a program to set the drive speed to 16X or 8X 😀

Heck with that, with a cracked disc, set it as slow as the drive will support. I have used EAC to save stuff off a cracked audio CD. Luckily, the disc wasn't badly damaged enough to shatter - EAC has the option to limit the ripping speed, but the drive still spins the disc up to full speed when it's first put in.

 

[JDCentral]

THis happened to my beloved UT CD (the first one... non GOTY version).

I think after installing and re-installing so many times, it just gave up..

*sigh*

What a great game...

 

[middlehead]

Originally posted by: ariafrost

Originally posted by: middlehead
I had one of those business card size CDs bust in a DVD drive a few years ago. Twas a recruitment disc from Yale, and the bastards wouldn't pay to replace the drive.

That's why you use a program to set the drive speed to 16X or 8X 😀

I didn't know the disc was cracked when I put it in, otherwise I wouldn't have 😛
I did look at it when I took it out of the package to see if any crap was on it, so if it was cracked it had to be a hairline fracture.





Unless you just mean to turn down the speed on any mini-disc, which I've been doing since then.

 

[d2arcturus]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
:thumbsup:

Enjoy.

This was actually in Maximum PC once, in the Geek Quiz article. Good times.

Haha i read that 😀.

 

[jelifah]

I'll never forget the first time I got the bright idea to break a CD in half. I'd just burned a coaster at work and was like 'Wouldn't it be fun to just crack it in half?' So I start applying the pressure to break it and notice it's taking a LOT more pressure than I expected.

The finally, and quite suddenly, the thing 'SHATTERS' in my hands, I think I even cut my hand a smidge. I was like 'uhh, whoa'