My RedHat disc exploded!

[jethro]

That sucks, but on the plus side, the image of the broken disk looks really cool!

[garrion]

Hmmm, from a physicist's point of view, this is kinda fascinating. I wonder how much more susceptible the new blue laser disks are going to be to this?

[micael]

The most problem with exploding cd's are not always any problem with the reader its often lousy written drivers who makes the cd to spin to fast (or not slows the drive in time). It can also be a combination with lousy disc quality (noname cd-r's for example).

Diablo2 was a good example since it do heavy reading all the time from the cd during gameplay, many of my friends had to buy new readers after playing diablo, not me though who still uses an old 34x drive .

[psychosquee]

Well, the drive is trashed. It appears that either stflook put it back together wrong, or it is just trashed. Oh well, I got the drive replaced and all is well now.

[darkes]

If you think that is bad, imagine what it is like when your monitor blows up. A few years ago, I was sitting in front of a VDU, when the power line took a direct hit from a lightning strike.
Huge bang, followed by the VDU disintergrating - fortunately due to the vacuum it imploded, so I didn't get hit much by the shards of glass, or the fried remains of the VDU. Eek !!

[Specter6]

Damn brutha! You're supposed to overclock your processor!

[11001001]

You'd better trash that image or M$ is going to use it for a new windows ad campaign...
As jethro said, it looks wicked cool, though.

[nsiox]

The reason this happens is because the disk is physically damaged, like it has a crack on it. So think about what would happen to something that has a flaw in it that is spinning as fast as CDs do.

In my experience, there's no point trying to fix your drive after this happens, just replace it.