CD blew up in CDRW

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kermit

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Today the darndest thing happened to me.

I put a CD into my cdrw and the darn thing literally blew up in the drive into like over 100 pieces.

I know a kid that this happened to last year. Does anyone know why this happened and how I can get my cdrw to work again. B/C it is only 7 months old and rarely used. Its 52x24x52 if you want to know.
 
Lorand

Lorand

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This crap could happen when the cd is of low quality. I think there's 1% chance to get the cd-rw to work again (a friend of mine recovered a dvd drive after a cd-blow-up, but he was damn lucky).
If you use cheaper cds, try to reduce the spinning speed of the drive (nero drivespeed could do it).
 
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kermit

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It was a lexmark installation cd for a printer I recently purchased and it was in the cd rom after I installed.

How do you go about making repairs to the drive?
 
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4W4K3

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kermit said:
It was a lexmark installation cd for a printer I recently purchased and it was in the cd rom after I installed.

How do you go about making repairs to the drive?
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If it's new enough return it and just say it stopped working lol. there should be some kind of a warranty.
 
Lorand

Lorand

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It was a lexmark installation cd for a printer
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LOL, we had a Lexmark laser printer at the office and after printing 150 pages, the printer blew up... :D
Since then I don't really trust Lexmark products. :p
 
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kermit

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Lol! Maybe I'm in for that too.

The burner isn't old but I didn't keep reciept or anything like that and don't know what company it is. I bought it from Office Max.
 
Praetor

Praetor

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You're probably out of luck for returning it although yu could buy the exact same model from Office Max............ :D
 
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Maybe you could try writing to Lexmark and/or the manufacturer of your burner... although it's unlikely they'll help, it can't hurt to try.
 
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ma77y

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My DVD-Rom blew up on me, I think it was because the CD had a slight crack in the centre circle bit and it was a copy of XP!! After alot of cleaning up little silver bits and pulling the drive apart and together again, its ok now. The tray is a bit wonky, but it works, but no way am i trusting it with a DVD movie or anything that cost me alot of money, so its use is just for installing OS's, copied ones, certainly not proper OS's!
 
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dave597

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has anyone ever seen that episode of MythBusters? No.

But have you ever considered using Nero drive speed if your drive explodes often. :)
 
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