I am certain the crack in the inner ring would effect the disk's
structural integrity but at normal speeds it would be fine. When you
tried to backup the disk Toast spun the drive up to maximum speed
(something like 52x) and the disk exploded because it wasn't strong
enough to spin at that speed any more.
In future I would recommend backing up cracked disks at 1x or as slow as
you're willing to wait.
Tom
On 28/08/12 12:29 PM, smac0031 wrote:
I was playing my favorite game, Master of Orion II. Then I quit the
game and ejected the CD and noticed there was a crack in the inner
ring. So I decided it might be a good time to make a backup copy of
this CD, if it were possible. I tried Disk Utility first and thought
it might be better to use Toast 9.0. I started running the program and
suddenly the plastic CD button goober shot out of the mirror door. I
got a cryptic "disc has read errors" message. I tried ejecting the
disc both using eject button on the keyboard and the eject button on
the front of the drive, which by the way is a Samsung from other
world.
None of this worked. The drive wouldn't open. I tried a paper clip and
that wouldn't work. I tried rebooting the machine and that didn't
help. I gave up and shut the machine down and pried the drive open.
The CD was in chunks. It literally exploded in the the drive. I have
probably 40% of it out of the drive in six pieces.
I've never heard of this happening. I loved that game. This sucks.
Now I don't have any excuses to switch over to my G5, no even lame
ones.
Mark Murphy
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