RE: Exploding CD

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd expect that the CD was damaged in some way (cracked?) before putting it
in the drive...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Pete
> Sent: 15 May 2007 12:49
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Exploding CD
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> Has anyone had a CD explode in a drive? I couldn't play this
> audio CD-R under WinXP for some reason although I could see
> the cda file, so I tried in my Ubuntu server. No joy but a
> lot of whirring noise. Following an attempt to eject it after
> about half a minute and there was a very load bang.
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> I stripped down the DVD writer and emptied all the bits of
> plastic and most of the shards of silver coloured foil that
> were all over the inside. Even the Dyson wouldn't pull them
> all out. It looks like the explosion damaged the edge of  the
> ribbon cable to the read head though, as the reassembled
> drive won't recognise media now :-)
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> Now landfill, but is this a first or have others experienced
> similar things?
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> Pete
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