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 ;)
This is probably one of those gross generalizations that come with being a female instructor. But. Men just don't seem to want to follow simple intructions, never mind follow step by step instruction listed in a manual. No. Instead the blazestraight through, skipping lines and words, and then find themselves confounded and lost.
At which point they wail:"Why! Why is this not working?!?"
To wish I generally respond: "Did you read the instructions?"
And can you guess what they answer?