I was watching Mythbusters for a while. It was interesting, but I needed hard drive space and removed them.
One of the episodes I did see was about CDs exploding in the cdrom drives due to excessive speeds. They did some tests and I don't remember the conclusion, but they did make some shatter.
Well, so did I.
First time I've had this happen.
Was a driver cd for a video card I had installed at work.
Had the cdrom sitting at a slight angle on the edge of the case as the machine doesn't normally have a cd drive.
Installed everything and shut down, at which point I wanted to remove the cd before the power went off.
Lifted the cd up a little bit to press the eject button, as otherwise it would eject to the floor and not open all the way.
-BANG-
-blink-
What was that...?
I look around... huh...
Try to open the cdrom and it partly opens with visible cd fragments inside.
-oh-
COOL!
About 15 minutes later of prying and shaking and twisting, I get all (?) of the pieces of the cd out of the drive and the drive is functional again.
One of the pieces had managed to bend a small bit of metal on the inside of the drive and wedge itself in their. Very impressive.
Needless to say when I was testing to see if it worked I pointed it at my boss before turning it on ;)
Posted by hugin at Marzo 10, 2005 02:26 PMHaHaHa.
I would not believe it had you not said so.
Well, in the show, they had to get it spinning really fast and then it had to be degraded as well before it would work.
I just had a flimsy cd and a change in attitude of about 5 degrees.
Same thing happened to me. I was installing Norton Anitvirus and BAM! a huge smack. It sounded like someone threw a piece of plastic at the wall (playing a trick on me). I didn't realize until a few minutes later when the installed failed. I opened the tray and: just shards of plastic.
Posted by: Markus Diersbock on Marzo 26, 2005 09:55 AMlol - wow... cool:)
Posted by: Daphne on Abril 2, 2005 03:23 PM:o
Posted by: munin on Abril 23, 2005 03:47 PM