I finally exploded a CD

[kato2274]

have heard of it happening. but it never happened to me.....until tonight. my folks gave me my christmas present early, a zen 60GB mp3 jukebox because I'm flying out of town the next two weeks in a row and could really use it on the plane and on the road. anyway I put in the cd to install the drivers and ........BANG!

opened up the drive, lots of little pieces of cd came out. put a crappy burned cd in the drive and it wouldn't read it. so I ordered a replacement DVD-ROM from newegg and I'm going to bitch to creative on monday and see if they'll reimburse me ......I doubt it.....but it's worth a shot.

I'd be mad, but I'm so stoked about the zen it doesn't really bother me all that much.

[Tekboy]

So, did it happen before or after the drivers got installed? Can you download the drivers if not?

[NooNoo]

He said creative remember?

[KINGofBLEH]

I have had that happen at least a half dozen times. My dirt cheap company outsources the duplication of our desktop/laptop ghost image CD's to a company that stamps them on really cheap (thin) media. The problem arises as we use the CD's in our Thinkpad and Dell laptops where we have to "snap" the CD in the drive before inserting it. Over time the CD begins to spider crack in the middle. We try to use them as long as possible (to show we are being prudent with company assets), but every once in a while one of the CD's decides to head to the great beyond and take a laptop DVD with it.

[NooNoo]

I have had that happen at least a half dozen times. My dirt cheap company outsources the duplication of our desktop/laptop ghost image CD's to a company that stamps them on really cheap (thin) media. The problem arises as we use the CD's in our Thinkpad and Dell laptops where we have to "snap" the CD in the drive before inserting it. Over time the CD begins to spider crack in the middle. We try to use them as long as possible (to show we are being prudent with company assets), but every once in a while one of the CD's decides to head to the great beyond and take a laptop DVD with it.

hmm have your company heard of false economy?

Some one do a cost/benefit analysis recently?

Probably not

[KINGofBLEH]

hmm have your company heard of false economy?

Some one do a cost/benefit analysis recently?

Probably not

Oh I've run the numbers a couple of times and complain frequently to management, but to no avail. I work for a bunch of 20+ year banking execs who don't understand a whit about technology other than "outsourcing good".

[TechZ]

Never happenned to me, i heard of this stuff happenning when burning cd's, not reading them!