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Mart 
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Posted: 23 May 2004 at 5:14am |
Yesterday I had really bad luck...
1. Norton Personal Firewall installer corrupted explorer.exe and prevented my from booting up normally andin safe mode
2. Tried to do a repair from my WINXP cd and 40 minutes in my cd rewriter physically snapped my ONLY XP cd in half There is a clean slice right through the middle of it
Does anyone know whether my CD Rewriter is still safe to use? I don't really want it snapping all my discs in half.
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WilliamC
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Posted: 23 May 2004 at 6:15am |
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How can something that just writes to a disk snap it in half? I can't see that being possible.
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 23 May 2004 at 6:30am |
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1. this is the very reason why I stay away from all norton products,
they really suck and course far to many problems for my liking.
2. Try a few blank or free magazine disks in the CD player to see if they work OK.
I've only had one CD player that snapped CD's and it usually shattered
them when at high speed would let the disk slip off flying into the
internal workings of the CD player.
If it is still under warrently I would take the CD burner back, or look into buying a new one.
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Mart
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Posted: 23 May 2004 at 6:34am |
 WilliamC wrote:
How can something that just writes to a disk snap it in half? I can't see that being possible. |
I presume the heads collided with the cd and snapped the disc.
It is still in warranty so I will look into taking it back, thanks.
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Posted: 23 May 2004 at 6:46am |
this is fully possible.. if you guys understand norwegian I can show you a thread from a norwegian forum 
when the CD reaches 52x it spins at about 10000RPM.. at this spead, a
small crack or something like that will cuse the disk to explode..
sometimes the tray may actually blow up and the disk will fly into the
room.. this is really dangerous and if you sit with your head in front
of the CD ROM at that time, I think you can say goodbye to the world..
so, ALWAYS KEEP YOUR BODY AWAY FROM THE FRONT OF THE COMPUTER!!!
A guy over in the US tried to spin the CD on a dremel, it went fast,
about 15k RPM, and the whole disk exploded into thousands, maybe
millions of parts that rained down in the whole room.. I can find that
site for you if you want.. just need some time
If you have a Plextor CD ROM/Writer, just send it to them, and you will
get a new one at your door in about a week.. maybe they even will come
and get it for you.. (this has been done here in Norway)
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Posted: 23 May 2004 at 6:54am |
Mart wrote:
[I presume the heads collided with the cd and snapped the disc.
It is still in warranty so I will look into taking it back, thanks. |
Yeh, that would make sense.
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Posted: 23 May 2004 at 7:02am |
here is the Norwegian thread if someone is interested
http://forum.hardware.no/index.php?showtopic=233201
and here is the "Dremel experiment"
http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm
he also has some videos which I havn't seen yet..
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Posted: 23 May 2004 at 11:10am |
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I have seen that on a Discovery Channel show called Myth Busters. They used a Latex Doll (not Latex but the meterials they used for Bullet experiments) and some CD parts entered the body up to 3 inch deep. Now they could not prove though that a CD can actually exit a closed CD-Rom, nevertheless 52x is beyond the physical imit of the CD. Then again, they also showed that 90% of all 52x drives never spin real 52x, they all staty in the low 40's
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