Thread: Cd and Cd drive explosion?

iv heard about this on a show cant remember it but i think it has to do with the rpms that the cd is at "note i have no idea if this true"

Grumble Grumble Grumble

There has been many reported cases of high speed CD readers (48X or faster) spinning the disk fast enough that a minor flaw in the CD disk will explosively fail with a bang, reducing the CD, and the fragile laser read head into scrap... It sounds like your a victim of this... Time to go shopping for a replacement reader...

Adding on to what Len said, Starcraft is an old game, and because of that, the age of the disc might have been a factor.

Why don't you go out and get a fancy-shamanzy DvD burner drive. I got mine for 30 bucks (Sony 16x Dual Layer) from a local computer shop, so shop around for deals... oh, and pick up a new copy of Starcraft while you're at it lol

Course, the drive won't explode like this... YouTube - Exploding CD-ROM

Originally Posted by Spin Da Ish

I was playing starcraft on the comp and i was about to take the cd out after i finished with it but then i heard a small explosion sound and out comes the cd drive with my cd in peices. my cd drives doesn't work anymore. anyone have an idea what might have happend?

54-58x and up will explode, and your cd was probably old, and your drive was probably on the end of its life.

so i was right in a way about the the cd at high speeds exploding, man kno there trying to kill ower computers buy selling us death cds that explode.

yea my cd disk drive was a 50x so maybe thats why. also i amke new copies f the cd everyday{before it was exploded} so now i cant put cds into my cd drive cuz somethign exploded in it

Originally Posted by aceman67

Adding on to what Len said, Starcraft is an old game, and because of that, the age of the disc might have been a factor.

I thought video games were pressed media? I still play ps1 games and they work like magic.

Were you talking about scratches?