Burner kills CDs

[Skywalker[TSG]]

I just bought a microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse package
and when i enterd the CD into the CD-rw drive it made this
loud cracking noise

I take the CD out and the whole inner circle part is scratched and shattered.

All other CDs seem to work but the microsfot CD is destroyed

how can this be ?

It's a Plextor 24/10/40

[muno]

Evil copy protection scheme and regional encoding.
Perhaps the cd became (umm.. what is 'hauras' in english...), you know what happens to stuff that is exposed to eg. humidity etc.

And the extreme spinning rate of the plextor caused vibration which cracked the entire cd.

Hey, isn't that a good theory?
-M
//edit:
'hauras', according to my dictionary is: brittle, breakable, fragile, frail

[Skywalker[TSG]]

I'm going to call the company i bought it from and complain about it,i'll tell them that the burner is *deleted*

maybe they will give me a new one

they have a very good reputation of compensating customers etc


Skywalker, You know better than to use language like that - Fingers

[paramufay]

sounds like the little idler wheel on top is missing or froze up

[dunbar]

Sometimes the CDROM spins faster than the particular disc can handle: in my case, a Corel CD cracked exactly when the 40x drive came up to full speed.

Why?
Sometimes the plastic of the CD is unusually weak: a bad batch of plastic, machines out of adjustment, whatever.

Sometimes something we did to the CD causes the plastic to become weak: we bent it once upon a time, maybe we left it in the sun for a few weeks.

They simply aren't always perfect.

BTW: Microsoft needs to hear that your CD is physically damaged.... they replace this stuff all the time.

[Skywalker[TSG]]

Your right

i'll give them a call on monday

*shudders*

[MDS]

I burn a backup disk for every piece of software I get and use my DVD drive (slower) to read the disk as I have a boatload of M$ software and other's such as my lightwave($950) that I don't want to be replacing any time soon, I use the copy I burn and if it goes bad for any reason I just burn another. Lucky I haven't had one disk crack or break to date(knock on wood )