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[DJ Night Force 9]

My favorite game for a while was Warcraft III TFT, and I played for LONG periods of time. Eventually, small scratches started appearing in the disk, but it still ran fine. Those scratches started to get bigger and bigger, yet it would still work.OMG, That's the exact same thing that happened to me! One day, I was just playing along, and I hear this crack. I open the drive, and I see only 20% of the disc in the drive. I was horrified!

Yeah. This exactly why it's never wise to use damaged/cracked discs in your drive as stuff like that may happen (little did wiredbomb0 know that those "scratches" were really cracks). I remember reading up on a type of disc that was notorious for doing that (Sony CDQ 74CN maybe). You also have to remember that these discs are spinning extremely fast in there which puts a lot of heat and pressure on the disc's platter.I came pretty close to this happening to me only I was prepared for it. I basically needed to backup a disc that I knew wouldn't last long. What had happened is that it got stuck in one of my cd cases one of the layers came right off when I tried to get it out so all that was left was the front protective, data, ink, and the reflective layers. This was enough for the disc to work but it was obviously VERY unstable (and noisy too). Fortunately by running it at 1x speed read, I could get the data off but had I continued to use it, I knew all too well what would happen.btw, this might have been posted somewhere before, but do watch this if you haven't already: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=v0QT4Y1Y3ug

[iambrad]

never happened to me, seen it on mythbusters though FTWPOINTS were deducted for this post by Bad Idea BearPlease refer to the forum rules to find out why your points were deducted.