March 17, 2004
Exploding Music CDs
Last night, my wife popped the most recent CMJ music CD into our CD-RW drive to rip it to MP3 (so she can listen to it on her iPod) and it exploded into a bazillion parts.
We heard it spin up (admittedly a bit faster than I thought necessary) and then "Bam!" and little pieces flew out of the drive. Opening the drive yielded about 12 small, sharp pieces of CD shrapnel, but I'm sure there are still more in there. The drive is unusable.
Gadgetopia has a post about exploding CDs and how it rarely happens. Yeah, whatever.
Posted by Craig | Permalink | TrackBackA similar thing happened to me Craig, so I don't think it's so unique. In my case it was my Windows XP CD. :P
http://www.mashby.com/archives/000235.html
Posted by mashby at March 17, 2004 09:09 PMOr you could consider yourself "cool" and assume she meant to do this on purpose, like this site I saw a few months ago:
http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm
It happened to me, however my situation was a little more dangerous. It happened at the youth center where I work in the lab and the cd-rom drives are eye level. A cd exploded and came flying out of the drive in chunks, luckily no one was hit.
Posted by Jeramey at March 17, 2004 10:22 PMsame here, last night in sask canada.
my 14 yr old daughter was playing her audio cd in the dvd/rom drive and BANG there was a loud crack and a loud constant rattle. i tried to eject but nope. i puleed the tray about 1 cm out and removed some peices of plastic. i removed the drive and cleaned out the rest, but it is no use the tray just keeps popping out on boot up. luckily i can still view media through the cd/rw drive, but i'm pretty scared of something exploding in there now too.
specs: windows xp-dvd/rom drive-fujifilm700cdr-seanix tower-bought at A/B sound saskatoon sask 2.5yrs ago.
i'm going to contact seanix and the drive manufacturer for suggestions.
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