What the hell just happened?

[TrainTrackHack]

So, my dad opens the CD tray and -wham- pieces of a broken CD rain on the floor. The CD's literally exploded inside the drive. Now, the question is...
WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED? How can this happen? I've had this happen years before, a new DVD reader literally blew a CD into pieces (the drive was done for; we took it back for replacement). Just purely out of curiosity, though, what on earth can make something like this happen? Do they hide jackhammers or explosives inside them bloody drives or what? And is there a chance that the drive would still work, maybe after cleaning it out (the drive came with out now 2-n-half years old computer, don't even think about suggesting taking it back for refund it was a no-brand CD-RW anyway).

 

[StrangleHold]

Could have been a number of things. CD could have had a bad place and just self destructed itself, got out of balance, drive could have spun up out of spec. and just slung the cd apart. But yes you can take the drive apart and clean it out, but as far as using it again thats up to you, if you think it was the drive went bad or the CD.

 

[csmdew]

$25 for a new drive, I would buy me a new one.

 

[lovely?]

if its just a cd drive then i would spend the money and upgrade to a dvd drive, they only cost about $25 as csmdew said.

i had that happen once too. the CD exploded and actually caused physical damage to parts inside the cd drive so i had to throw mine out. maybe you'll be luckier?

 

[funkysnair]

brittle plastic exposed to heat and geforce

 

[Ramodkk]

Actually I was watching Myth Busters the other day, and if the drive was spinning higher than spec it could make a CD explode

 

[funkysnair]

Myth Busters-ah come on-! you must be the 1 of 10 viewers lol

long live the ghost busters

 

[lovely?]

brittle plastic exposed to heat and geforce

yeah, it was exposed to a video card lol.

g-force is what your looking for.

 

[skidude]

You know that episode of Mythbusters......

 

[Ramodkk]

See, Skidude knows too

 

[funkysnair]

yeah, it was exposed to a video card lol.

g-force is what your looking for.

yeh yeh what ever lol

 

[concorde]

Ceramic hard disk drives can do that too. It's rare, but it happens.

Can you subtract - h*ll?

 

[just a noob]

if you hook a cd to a disk grinder, you'll see, odds are it just became too brittle and went boom

 

[mac550]

well i never knew a cd could explode in a drive nor a disk in a hdd!!!
well you learn something new everyday.

 

[jdbennet]

happened to me. i was like wtf my drive ate my disk

i got it from using really cheapass cdrs in my burner

 

[compt 134]

What's the brand of CD-ROM that are you using and I wonder what was the brand of CD.
It is really hard to believe but sounds very dangerous.

 

[muz]

Double post dunno what happened there

 

[muz]

sounds like the sort of thing that happens when you buy cheap CD R's never had it happen to me , there might have been a weakness in the CD already to make this happen how fast where you burning this cd ?
considering how fast CD's go though i mean i read that a cd being read at 1X will spin at
250rpm when the laser is reading the outisde
and up to 500rpm when reading the inside
and thats only at 1X ,

 

[TrainTrackHack]

What's the brand of CD-ROM that are you using and I wonder what was the brand of CD.

It's a generic no-brand cheapo... I still haven't cleaned it out. Lazeee

Sounds like the sort of thing that happens when you buy cheap CD R's never had it happen to me , there might have been a weakness in the CD

It wasn't a CD-R, it was the installation disc for our broadband. Gotta do manual configuration if I need to reinstall

how fast where you burning this cd ?

I wan't burning a thing, no-one was... nobody even know when this happened. The CD tray just opened and teh drive spat out pieces. Sucks.

 

[jdbennet]

I was using gold cdrs with absolutely no writing etc... on them