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I had been on the Internet for quite a while now. It was about 3pm. My mate was in the room and he asked me for a network game of Championship Manager. I accepted and he passed me the CD.

Everything was fine as I inserted the CD. For some reason, the CD drive had trouble reading the CD. I removed the CD and had a check. It looked fine so I put the CD back in.

After a few seconds of replacing the CD, BOOM!!! The CD had shattered inside the CD drive. I opened the drive and lots of small CD pieces fell to the floor.

I have never seen this happen before. I deducted that the drive did it although it was fine 3 hours before the incident. So that means I have no Championship Manager CD and the CD drive is now useless as there are still pieces of the CD stuck in the drive.

(Please do not have a go at me for playing Championship Manager and I did put the CD in properly.) :)

I remember your brother sat on your previous copy of CM and broke it- you get all the luck!!

Man, thats proper hefty!

Just find a no CD crack on the internet and you'll be fine though. I had one for CM0001, dunno is there any for CM0102 yet though.

CD blah CD sploog CD this CD that....


Too.... much..... C..... D......

When CD drives first came out, CD's were made that could only handle 12x speed.

When the 10x speed drives came out CD's were actually bending as they spun, meaning that the data read by the drive was corrupted.

If it's an old CD, and you put it in a 40x speed drive, the centrifugal forces would just tear it apart.

Which is what happened.

It was either a really old CD, or a really poor quality one. If it was quite new, I'd try phoning the publisher and try to get another copy as CD's can/should be able to handle 70x speed and higher.

It was like it was twisting actually inside the CD drive. I found a few bits that were almost twisted in half.

uk_vamp wrote:
*Sods law* something i
> know all to well

Ermmm... I'm not even going to THINK about what you mean by that...

:-D

if the machines are networked you could share the other cd drive trouble is now you don't have a CD you can share :)

this is part of *Sods law* something i know all to well

Yep its happened to me and my friend we both put our cds in and they just exploded th emoment we put it in both computers did it so dn't wry too much it isn't that your pc is ruined just that your cd drive has been very hot and made the cd pass its boiling point. My old pc had a 8x drive it stopped working and my warranty put a new one that was 40x then i put cd and BOOM!!! then i changed it to 25x and it works fine its just the cd wasn't on a high quality disc. Damn my C&C Red Alert disc oh well i got it on the psx.

Heh, your CD drive could be a great way to open Chocolate Oranges!

I've seen CD drives crack CD and actually throw CD's out of the drives but never shatter them inside the drive.