Can I now call myself a proper techie?

spud17

Just had an XP cd explode in the player whilst installing, currently mopping the floor.

I've met one guy who claimed it had happened to him, but in reality thought it was bit of an urban myth.

I always make copies of install disks and use those, rather than the original.

It was a Verbatim CD-R with XP Home SP3.

Anyone else had similar?

Stupid question really, .

John_Gray

Are you recounting this story verbatim?!

Lil306

Happened to me too, what peeved me off at the time it was a friends disk. So ended up costing me £150 to rebuild my PC, buying his disk to replace his and one for myself so it only messes up mine

Richie-from-the-Boro

spud17 wrote: »

Just had an XP cd explode in the player whilst installing, currently mopping the floor.

I've met one guy who claimed it had happened to him, but in reality thought it was bit of an urban myth.

I always make copies of install disks and use those, rather than the original.

It was a Verbatim CD-R with XP Home SP3.

Anyone else had similar?

Stupid question really, .

Yep, once about 12 or 15 years ago when CD ROM's cost a fortune, at the time I also had a Connor tape drive [ DAT ] for my backup's.

Both the DAT & the CD were working, then the gunfire and bombs started inside the PC case, unbelievably loud, I was one relieved person when it turned out to be the CD and not the DAT system.

- it's no urban myth spud17 .. .. .. it's fact !

BTW - the soddin [ shrapnel filled ] ROM worked for over a year after that. I think it was a CD-ROM Mode 2 which had just come out replacing the Mode 1, and at the time it was expensive.

Lil306

Real techies

CHR15

I've had that before, the disk shatters into at least a billion tiny shards.

Most of mine were contained within the CD Drive mechanism, not much at all escaped the confines of the housing.

spud17

Cheers people, I sort of guessed it must have happened, but not too often.

Just wanted to see if others had on here had had it happen, also bit of a change from malware/router/wireless threads.

The tower was on the floor about 1m away, and I thought the wind had blown the front door shut, expected to hear glass hitting the floor, it was that loud.

It happened when the disk spun up after a reboot during the install.

For the hell of it I took the casing on the CD apart, biggest piece was a 40mm triangle, blew the glitter/confetti out with an airline, refitted it, and it's back working.

One good reason why it's wise to make a copy of important disks.

Richie-from-the-Boro

"" that loud "" you said, that's why I highlighted the "" unbelievably loud "" - spud17 - it's an unexpected source of sound and remains memorable.

You are now officially a registered member of a very exclusive club

Lil306

I almost !!!! myself when I first heard mine explode, only thing what really annoyed me it !!!!!!ed a very very good dvd burner I had

Sounded like someone fired a gun or a really loud firecracker. Needless to say I changed my underwear