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I just had a disc..uh..explode.. in my dvd drive.
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Masinory
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28. July 2006 @ 07:31 |
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I'm posting this here as, when I ejected the disc, I didn't even get half of it back, so I guess it takes it a bit further.
Put disc in, pushed button, few seconds later I hear: "SCRAPE SCRAPE SCRAPE SHATTERBOOM". Took about four seconds. Ejected drive, I get less than half the disc back, totally shattered.
Drive is a DVD burner, 4 months old.
What are my options? What do I do?
I haven't pushed the tray back in yet, but I was going to push it in, power down, open 'er up and vacuum everything out.
But should I know anything? Like, even if the drive continues working, are there any ill effects that I might have to know about?
Or anything else for that matter?
thanks.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 29. July 2006 @ 17:41
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Masinory
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28. July 2006 @ 08:30 |
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Okay, I caved in and cleaned it out myself. There doesn't sound like anything is left in the drive.
Now, when I push a disc in, it ejects itself a second later. If I force the drive to stay shut, and then let go, it doesn't push itself out, but it also won't read any discs.
Am I boned, or is there anything I can do?
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28. July 2006 @ 09:01 |
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Sorry to say this dude but it sounds like youre screwed. If you got it to hold the disc it wouldnt read it as the laser lens is probably in a sorry state.
Sell it on ebay as FAULTY.. Thats what i do just dont say anything about the problem. Just say FAULTY lol!
Good luck
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vegeta66
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29. July 2006 @ 03:23 |
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mythbusters did a show on this lol, a drive would spin the disc to fast causing it to shatter, although i cant imagine why urs did, and yeah ur drive is gone. was the disc you were using badly damaged before you put it into the drive?
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Masinory
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29. July 2006 @ 03:25 |
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Yeah, I'm 80% sure the cd had a pretty big scratch on it.
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29. July 2006 @ 09:12 |
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A scratch wouldnt have done it. A crack maybe but not a scratch. Unless it was super deep!
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Masinory
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29. July 2006 @ 10:12 |
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If the CD did infact have the mark I'm remembering, it was more like a very shallow gash. Emphasis on shallow, it wasn't deep at all, but it was about an inch long and 2-3 milimeters wide.
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29. July 2006 @ 11:32 |
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Well god knows how it shattered then.
But back to the orginial question yes you will need to get a new drive!
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Masinory
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29. July 2006 @ 12:18 |
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Thankfully I bought a pioneer about a month before I got this PC, which was in april, not knowing that I'd be buying a new PC with a dvd burner already in it. The burner that came with the PC was the one that blew up.
Thus, not much harm done.
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ddp
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29. July 2006 @ 17:39 |
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had this happen to me with my utity disk in a customer's cd burner. spun out of control & went bang. took drive out & took it apart, cleaned all foil & plastic out of drive. drive worked. there was no scratches on my disk.
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30. July 2006 @ 01:31 |
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youre drive wont work again, did u insert the disc fully straight on to the tray or it might've been not inserted straight causin it to snap it when it started to spin it
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ddp
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30. July 2006 @ 11:10 |
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dazila, who was that directed at?
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30. July 2006 @ 20:39 |
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Masinory
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ddp
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31. July 2006 @ 16:07 |
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ok.
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