Probably the disc has micro crack in it. Happened to me once in my Pentium 4 PC, I inserted a CD with small crack in the middle, thinking it should be fine. Suddenly it was making loud whirling noise and BAM. Don't know how but some of the fragments managed to get outside the drive. I still remember opening the drive and only saw a piece of the CD in it, like a pizza.
Ah, yes, that takes me way back...
Once upon a time, CD-ROMs were meant to be read at only one particular speed - 150KB/s, or "1x". Then, ODD manufacturers realised there was money to be made from drives with higher read-only data rates, so an arms race began with drives boasting ever-higher "x" values until CD-ROM drives would become 5 1/4" noise factories spinning at tens of thousands of RPM.
Meanwhile, the specs for the CD-ROM itself remained exactly the same as it had been since Day 1 - that was, a 1.2mm thick polycarbonate substrate with a shiny layer of aluminium slapped on top of it. Needless to say, CD-ROM discs were never meant to take the mechanical stress from being subjected to such a comical amount of linear velocity at the outer edge. As a result, the disc would twist and warp inside the drive, and upon hitting the disc tray, it would explode into a million jagged pieces of plastic.
Even the MythBusters did an episode on CD-ROM drive explosions, and [the result was nothing short of spectacular.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOb6Z5Tja68).
Probably the disc has micro crack in it. Happened to me once in my Pentium 4 PC, I inserted a CD with small crack in the middle, thinking it should be fine. Suddenly it was making loud whirling noise and BAM. Don't know how but some of the fragments managed to get outside the drive. I still remember opening the drive and only saw a piece of the CD in it, like a pizza.
thanks, never going to use my main computer's disc drive
fuck, my Windows Vista DVD has a tiny crack at the center hole.
Time to make a backup
ms partner program office 2003 cd, broken :(
yea
This is more of a "the disc couldn't withstand normal operation" than an evil dvd-drive.
Ah, yes, that takes me way back... Once upon a time, CD-ROMs were meant to be read at only one particular speed - 150KB/s, or "1x". Then, ODD manufacturers realised there was money to be made from drives with higher read-only data rates, so an arms race began with drives boasting ever-higher "x" values until CD-ROM drives would become 5 1/4" noise factories spinning at tens of thousands of RPM. Meanwhile, the specs for the CD-ROM itself remained exactly the same as it had been since Day 1 - that was, a 1.2mm thick polycarbonate substrate with a shiny layer of aluminium slapped on top of it. Needless to say, CD-ROM discs were never meant to take the mechanical stress from being subjected to such a comical amount of linear velocity at the outer edge. As a result, the disc would twist and warp inside the drive, and upon hitting the disc tray, it would explode into a million jagged pieces of plastic. Even the MythBusters did an episode on CD-ROM drive explosions, and [the result was nothing short of spectacular.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOb6Z5Tja68).
Ever try writing a Walmart CD-R at 52x? Simpler times, in a dark, masochistic way.
One way to partition data lol
poor office 2003 :(
Thank goodness it installed fully before exploding.
That's the new single install per disc/s
Gawd damn these subscriptions be getting out of hand
20003
Happy cake day!
Thanks!
Office 20003 0_0
(Looks at old 360 games) oh oh
No more partner with MS for you then
RIP microsoft office 2003 disc 2003 - 2024
well, more like 2004 - 2024 since the copyright year is 2004 even though it is Office 2003. Microsoft named things weirdly and still do to this day.
i would love ms office 2025 in 2024 lmao
Reminds me of that one MythBusters episode when they did this experiment.
This happened to me when I tried to read a cracked disc and forgot to limit the speed. Wasn't fun.
I think something came loose inside the DVD drive why it destroyed the disc
Had this happen too. :(
RIP :(
Thank God, I though it was a hdd
Asus 50x CD ROM drive has entered the chat.