Shattered VV# Disk.......

Teepolo wrote on 5/30/2003, 5:27 PM
It was a quite evening about 6 or 7 p.m. While cleaning up my hard drive i hear a snap, clunk, another snap and then a continual sound somewhat to the likings of blending ice in a blender but not as sharp a sound. I open my CDROM drive and it ejects fine then closes fine and sound disappears. Few minutes later i hear the blender sound again. Open CDROM again, close it and sound goes away. After doing this a few times i opened my CDRW drive and seen what use to be my Vegas 3 cd but now it is shattered and blendered in the drive. My son who also uses VV3 had put it in the drive the night before and for some reason that drive ate it, "litereally speaking". Anyway I took the drive out to send it back, I just hope Sonic would beleive my story and send me another cd. The drive makes a neat sound when you shake it. Just thought I'd share that. I've never seen that before. It literally blendered it into hundreds of pieces, which most still sits in the drive. Have a great weekend all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tim.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 5/30/2003, 6:17 PM
The disc itself really isn't that important; it's your serial number that matters and that should be printed inside the cover of your manual. Go to the download link and download the install files then burn them to a new CD. You'll also get the newest updates and bug fixes this way.
jboy wrote on 5/30/2003, 7:11 PM
That's what the speed limitation on cd-rom drives is about. When you get up into the 48X+ speed range, the rotational speed is so great that the disks sometimes shatter. Sounds like a rather messy cleaning job...
farss wrote on 5/30/2003, 11:55 PM
On a similar note, you may be tempted to hand out some samples of your work on those nice looking business card sized CDs.
Don't do it, unless you really don't want any customers.
I've had one take off and fly right out the back of the CD drive, how it managed to fit I'll never know but I found it inside the case of the PC.
Teepolo wrote on 5/30/2003, 11:55 PM
That scratches the idea of getting a 100x cdrom drive. Just kidding. :)

Night all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Teepolo wrote on 5/30/2003, 11:57 PM
That is very funny!! I never heard of that happening but I am sure I will now that you mentioned that.

:)
JJKizak wrote on 5/31/2003, 8:00 AM
I have done the "double cd into player bit" before but not the shatter thing.
Amazing since plastic and aluminum are the best substances to use for
flywheels.

JJK
Teepolo wrote on 6/1/2003, 5:08 PM
I have not done the double cd thing but i still cannot figure out how the cd jsut shattered. One of those odeties i guess. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tim.
shogo wrote on 6/2/2003, 2:37 PM
Had that happen to me with a Windows XP Pro Enterprise CD. I was copying the CD to a network folder for remote installs about half way through the copy process it sounded like the cd drive was spinning faster and faster getting very noisy and then POP! I thought at first the power supply was fried but the computer was still running checked the CD drive on the computer opened it and the CD was in like a 1000 pieces. Good thing we had two original discs! Havent figured out if it was the cheap CD drive or just a bad disc but it was an original from Microsoft. Never saw anything like that before...