Is it okay to leave a disc in your computer for an extended period of time?

I leave CD's in my drive for ages....I think I have had Red Alert 3 in there for several months. I don't believe it would do any harm.
 
Dropkickmurphys said:
I leave CD's in my drive for ages....I think I have had Red Alert 3 in there for several months. I don't believe it would do any harm.
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I do the same, The last case I had I had several cd-rom drives in it and I just left my most often used game disk in them, months and months, never had an issue. I bought this 10 bay case I have now with the intentions of doing similar, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
 
I leave them in for consoles but for PCs i take them out, I`ve heard that leaving discs in gets them scratched.
 
I have also heard that leaving cd in drives makes them heat up with the computer, and creates disc read error. Beside leaving disk in the drive increase the boot up time if you boot up media is set to optical drive.
 
it wont do any harm but if your pc is reading the disc
then it can mess up the cd with rainbow colour stuff
it looks like a illusion...
 
Throw in my 2cents. I used to leave CDs in the drive, but then one day I sold my pc...and Tribes Vengeance went with it >.<, I now take out all CDs when Im done.
 
Hmmm. Interesting. I s'pose if I don't have the disc constantly in a fully spinned up state it won't matter so much. Thanks for the opinions.
 
Swweet as lol. I'm trying to install XP in a virtal machine on my PPC Mac using Q Emulator and it's taking its sweet time (days and days).
 
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