Dvd-rom Drive Blown My Cd ! Why ?

I put my CD-R into my Samsung DVD-ROM SD-616Q (16x/48x) and it starts to read like always.But then the CD is beeing twisted so fast arround inside my CD drive until it finaly blows into thousand peaces.I spend hours to get the peaces out of the drive.

It was a normal CD (no cheap shit) and it had important data on it (Norton Antivirus 2003, PowerQuest Partition Magic Pro 8, Mp3 Music, Photos, ... etc.) and everything is lost now :frusty: :(

The only thing that I am asking myself is WHY ??? Why did that happen' ???
The drive was two moths old.Will it eat my CDs again if I put one into the drive again ??? :blink: ?

Please reply ??? Did that happen' to someone else too ?? :helpsmile:

:lol: Ya man, it happened to me a couple days ago. It just started spinning really fast then BOOM, no more cd. And it had all the drivers for my mobo and shit.

I'm sorry man.The biggest problem is that I have a sitty 56k connectio so it is hard for me to get all that stuff again back.It would take weeks if not months.

I'm realy pissed of man :angry:

I will go tommorow to the shot where I bought it and bring it back.I have 12 months waranty on that piece of shit.I want a new one, damn it :angry:

Did it ruin your dvd-rom?

Not I think it works fine now.I put a CD in and it reads it.But I will not put a DVD into the drive, it could go crazy again and destroy my cd.Don't want to risc that.

If your going to excahnge it try to get a different brand for teh same price.

My toshibe is 16x\48x just like ur drive, plus its really quiet, and looks cool too. Got it for only $30 Canadian :)

I wouldnt go for the same brand because it would run a risk of same thing happening again.

I have noticed some cd/dvd-roms done like some cd's with autorun, ps2 games, or some scratched cd's and they spin up really fast. Like im pretty sure they spin up more that what the drive can do.

When i put in street fighter alpha 3 (a psx game) my dvd rom even my burner go mental and the whole PC starts to shake :o

Well, I didn't had any problems with my other two drives, CD-ROM 52x & CD-RW 40x12x40, and they are from Samsung too.

They are working very well and very quiet.Never realised big noise or something.The yran always quiet and work efficient.

Maybe I'll take another brand ... don't know right now, I'm still shocked about what happend :D

I saw an article somewhere where this had happened and what it turned out to be was the Disc had a tiny minute crack in it near the middle(so small, the naked eye couldnt see) and had disintergrated. ;)

I dont understand why the companies that make the cd roms or dvd roms dont have an RPM limiter or something.

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Originally posted by Java Boy@21 January 2004 - 00:36
I saw an article somewhere where this had happened and what it turned out to be was the Disc had a tiny minute crack in it near the middle(so small, the naked eye couldnt see) and had disintergrated. ;)

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Thanx Java Boy.But the CD was almost new. Only a few days old.I have other CDs of the same brand and never had probs. with 'em.

:blink: I'm still sch0cked !!! :angry:

We need RPM limiters :rolleyes:

A crack may not have been the cause, it could be that when the drive was performing the drive check (when its first inserted) that a fault caused the motor to switch to maxinum. The trouble is there isnt realy anything that explain this, appart from interal damage, anomaly caused from corrupt data.

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My toshibe is 16x\48x just like ur drive, plus its really quiet, and looks cool too. Got it for only $30 Canadian

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:o Where?!?!

Great. I finally started to trust my computer <_<

Wouldn&#39;t a CD - desintegrating drive set off all kinds of alarms at Quality Control ?
Seems awfully dangerous to me. Perhaps you could sue the manufacturer for attempted assault ;)

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Perhaps you could sue the manufacturer for attempted assault

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Sure man ... I&#39;ll write an e-mail so Samsung: "Hey Sasmung, your DVD drive tried to kill me with a CD ... murderer.I want &#036;1.000.000 + a new DVD drive" :lol:

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Originally posted by Dark Ride@21 January 2004 - 22:05

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Perhaps you could sue the manufacturer for attempted assault

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Sure man ... I&#39;ll write an e-mail so Samsung: "Hey Sasmung, your DVD drive tried to kill me with a CD ... murderer.I want &#036;1.000.000 + a new DVD drive" :lol:

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send them the letter. I&#39;m sure you wont get &#036;1.000.000, but you will proberly get soemthing back. How about sending it in the post with the broken CD or DVD drive.



or am i just getting carried away :rolleyes:

no Marius24, your not gettin carried away :)
most companies will give you something back, sometimes not a lot, but you usually get something

am I the only one to call bullshit &#174;

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Originally posted by kaiweiler@21 January 2004 - 16:07

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My toshibe is 16x&#092;48x just like ur drive, plus its really quiet, and looks cool too. Got it for only &#036;30 Canadian

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:o Where?&#33;?&#33;

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factorydirect, when they used to be down my street picked it up on the way ome from school one day, great deal. It was there cheapest one and i thought it would be pretty crappy but its great. BTW, it was on sale, normally 40. and its not refurbished either.

This happened to me a couple of years back on my old PC.

I was playing online, and my friend was behind me watching when all of a sudden there was a crunch and it was spat out of the drive and fired across my living room. It disintegrated into the opposite wall and left a huge mark where plaster had come off.

I swear to god, if that had hit my friend behind me, he would of incurred serious injuries. I believe the drive was a Philips, although it could have been the disk itself, although it was a legit copy (Game).

Samurai

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Originally posted by Marius24+22 January 2004 - 00:13--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Marius24 @ 22 January 2004 - 00:13)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Dark Ride@21 January 2004 - 22:05

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Perhaps you could sue the manufacturer for attempted assault

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Sure man ... I&#39;ll write an e-mail so Samsung: "Hey Sasmung, your DVD drive tried to kill me with a CD ... murderer.I want &#036;1.000.000 + a new DVD drive" :lol:

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send them the letter. I&#39;m sure you wont get &#036;1.000.000, but you will proberly get soemthing back. How about sending it in the post with the broken CD or DVD drive.



or am i just getting carried away :rolleyes: [/b][/quote]
Maybe you&#39;re right.I&#39;ll send &#39;em a letter and the broke CD (it looks like a puzzle now :D ) and maybe I&#39;ll get something back.It&#39;s worth a try.

I&#39;ll let you know if they answer the mail B)

document everything, u shouldn&#39;t have removed the pieces, get a digital camero and take pic on every angle.

prove to them how their product damaged ur property and demand compensation.

i&#39;ve heard of this happening before, i&#39;ve tried to destroy cds by bending them and some of them just break to pieces but others just bend and dont break.

but what&#39;s been said is certainly plausible.

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Originally posted by Samurai@22 January 2004 - 01:39
This happened to me a couple of years back on my old PC.

I was playing online, and my friend was behind me watching when all of a sudden there was a crunch and it was spat out of the drive and fired across my living room. It disintegrated into the opposite wall and left a huge mark where plaster had come off.

I swear to god, if that had hit my friend behind me, he would of incurred serious injuries. I believe the drive was a Philips, although it could have been the disk itself, although it was a legit copy (Game).

Samurai

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Bloody hell thats crazy&#33; :o