Just a suggestion: buy the best quality CDs or DVDs you
can afford and then back up the disk.
For games or other optical media used often,
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Use The Backup!
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Store the original away where it´s dark.
Read up on the lifetime expectancy (mtbf) of CDs and DVDs.
Defend yourself a
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 spee
I got the DVD drive out of my computer. I gave up holding the whole
computer at various angles and shaking it to get the cd-rom out of it.
Roughly, a little over half of the cd-rom has fallen out of it. The
mechanism in the DVD drive seems to be jammed and only little bits fall out
now.
I am s
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On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Richard Gerome wrote:
>There is probably only 2 things that could have caused this: 1st the CD
> broke going in when the thing comes down to grab the disc by the hole because
> of a miss alignment or 2nd It spun up to ove
At 7:47 PM -0700 8/27/2012, Clark Martin wrote:
You should check out the Myth Busters episode about exploding
optical drives. It was one of their first episodes. Short story is
that with normal discs no drive they tried could destroy a disc. I
think they did have some failure after abusing t
rpm would cause
it to explode)... Now what I think happened was the first thing? Once they
crack it will weaken them and the spinning of the drive would cause them to
explode..?
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>From: smac0031
>Sent: Aug 27, 2012 10:29 PM
>To: G-Group
>Subject: H
On Aug 27, 2012, at 7:29 PM, smac0031 wrote:
> 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 e
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 T
