Re: Exploding CD

["Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Haven't had it happen to me personally, but there was an
"incident
poster" on the wall of a place I used to work. It sounds like you were
lucky - they had bits of CD escape out into the room (not sure quite
how, but that's what the poster said...).

Cheers,

Tim.

On 5/15/07, Pete <pslists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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 :-)
>
> Now landfill, but is this a first or have others experienced similar
things?
>
> Pete