Really bad day
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Topic: Really bad day
Posted By: Mart
Subject: Really bad day
Date Posted: 23 May 2004 at 5:14am
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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 Does anyone know whether my CD Rewriter is still safe to use? I don't really want it snapping all my discs in half. |
There is a clean slice right through the middle of it
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Posted By: WilliamC
Date 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. ------------- http://www.textlinkbrokerage.com - Need more quality text links with your anchor text? http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum - Google Forum |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date 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. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 23 May 2004 at 6:34am
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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. |
WilliamC wrote:Posted By: Semikolon
Date 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) |
Posted By: WilliamC
Date Posted: 23 May 2004 at 6:54am
Yeh, that would make sense. ------------- http://www.textlinkbrokerage.com - Need more quality text links with your anchor text? http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum - Google Forum |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 23 May 2004 at 7:02am
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here is the Norwegian thread if someone is interested http://forum.hardware.no/index.php?showtopic=233201 - http://forum.hardware.no/index.php?showtopic=233201 and here is the "Dremel experiment" http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm - http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm he also has some videos which I havn't seen yet.. |
Posted By: michael
Date 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 ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 24 May 2004 at 11:50am
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there were LG cd drives some time ago which didnt had a tray instead the cd loaded in directly through a slot like most car cd players and they had a lot complains abt the cd flying out of the drive at high speed spins.. they discontinued these kind of drives soon ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 24 May 2004 at 5:54pm
you might be able to get the cdrom drive manufacturer to replace your xp cd too  ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |