I'm posting this here as, when I ejected the disc, I didn't even get half of it back, so I guess it takes it a bit further. Put disc in, pushed button, few seconds later I hear: "SCRAPE SCRAPE SCRAPE SHATTERBOOM". Took about four seconds. Ejected drive, I get less than half the disc back, totally shattered. Drive is a DVD burner, 4 months old. What are my options? What do I do? I haven't pushed the tray back in yet, but I was going to push it in, power down, open 'er up and vacuum everything out. But should I know anything? Like, even if the drive continues working, are there any ill effects that I might have to know about? Or anything else for that matter? thanks.
Okay, I caved in and cleaned it out myself. There doesn't sound like anything is left in the drive. Now, when I push a disc in, it ejects itself a second later. If I force the drive to stay shut, and then let go, it doesn't push itself out, but it also won't read any discs. Am I boned, or is there anything I can do?
Sorry to say this dude but it sounds like youre screwed. If you got it to hold the disc it wouldnt read it as the laser lens is probably in a sorry state. Sell it on ebay as FAULTY.. Thats what i do just dont say anything about the problem. Just say FAULTY lol! Good luck
mythbusters did a show on this lol, a drive would spin the disc to fast causing it to shatter, although i cant imagine why urs did, and yeah ur drive is gone. was the disc you were using badly damaged before you put it into the drive?
If the CD did infact have the mark I'm remembering, it was more like a very shallow gash. Emphasis on shallow, it wasn't deep at all, but it was about an inch long and 2-3 milimeters wide.
Well god knows how it shattered then. But back to the orginial question yes you will need to get a new drive!
Thankfully I bought a pioneer about a month before I got this PC, which was in april, not knowing that I'd be buying a new PC with a dvd burner already in it. The burner that came with the PC was the one that blew up. Thus, not much harm done.
had this happen to me with my utity disk in a customer's cd burner. spun out of control & went bang. took drive out & took it apart, cleaned all foil & plastic out of drive. drive worked. there was no scratches on my disk.
youre drive wont work again, did u insert the disc fully straight on to the tray or it might've been not inserted straight causin it to snap it when it started to spin it
