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Old 2008-01-03, 11:10 PM
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Computer scratches my cd.

hi guys, i wanted to torrent a gig of T. Rex live in Sydney 1973, i put the cd into the computer and it made a big noise, all i heard was a scratching noise and the computer tower started being noisy i tried to take the cd out and after 10-20 seconds it came out, my cd was scratched on the outside of the cd. i couldnt believe it does anybody have any theories?
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Old 2008-01-04, 12:14 AM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

i foresee a new cd burner in your near future.
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Old 2008-01-04, 01:28 AM
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i foresee a new cd burner in your near future.
Yep. Play it safe.
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Old 2008-01-04, 03:38 AM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

I got a walkman that did that to disc one of my police box set... fuckin sucks!! I stopped using it immediately.

as for your scratched cd I heard furniture polish works, or maybe one of those overpriced cd repair kits at certain record stores. I've tried neither personally, I would strongly recommend finding a similar audio cdr (or cd you don't like lol) and scratch it similarly, then try to "repair" that before you go to work on your one-of-a-kind disc. Or, if your disc isn't one of a kind track down another copy.
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Old 2008-01-04, 05:02 AM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

thanks for the posts i was wondering why it did that to the cd?
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Old 2008-01-04, 08:17 AM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

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hi guys, i wanted to torrent a gig of T. Rex live in Sydney 1973, i put the cd into the computer and it made a big noise, all i heard was a scratching noise and the computer tower started being noisy i tried to take the cd out and after 10-20 seconds it came out, my cd was scratched on the outside of the cd. i couldnt believe it does anybody have any theories?
thanks
Was this a CD-R or DVD-R?

How did you get a gig of T Rex on a 700 MB CD-R?

I would ask a friend to make me a copy of the disc, by ripping the scratched disc-if possible-to his HDD, and then burning it.
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Old 2008-01-04, 01:54 PM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

Two things that come to mind - you didn't put the CD into the tray properly, or you put it in and there was already a CD loaded(I did that once, shook the whole tower, surprisingly caused no damage to burner or CD's though.)
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Old 2008-01-04, 08:23 PM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

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Was this a CD-R or DVD-R?

How did you get a gig of T Rex on a 700 MB CD-R?

I would ask a friend to make me a copy of the disc, by ripping the scratched disc-if possible-to his HDD, and then burning it.


it was a CD i think oir maybe a CD-R, i had been waiting for months for it and got it from the bolan society, what do you mean by "How did you get a gig of T Rex on a 700 MB CD-R?"?
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Old 2008-01-04, 09:13 PM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

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it was a CD i think oir maybe a CD-R, i had been waiting for months for it and got it from the bolan society, what do you mean by "How did you get a gig of T Rex on a 700 MB CD-R?"?
thanks
What he is saying is that a CD-R can't hold a gig, so how is it that you are talking about a gig being on the CD-R? Are you sure it isn't a DVD-R? And, if it was a DVD-R, does your computer take DVD-Rs?
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Old 2008-01-04, 09:44 PM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

I think he meant "gig" as in a show, performance, concert, etc.

Most gigs will fit nicely on a cdr.



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Old 2008-01-04, 10:30 PM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

yeah sorry i did mean a gig as in a concert sorry for the confusion
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Old 2008-01-04, 10:38 PM
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yeah sorry i did mean a gig as in a concert sorry for the confusion

OK, I was getting at what Lynne said, that perhaps your CD-ROM does not play DVD-Rs.

So what is the problem? Have you lost the data, or is the CD simply scratched? If the CD has become unplayable, there is an application called CDRoller that will recover the data for you. Just google it.

I had stored data on a DVD-R that became corrupt, but I was able to recover the data with this application.
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Old 2008-01-04, 11:22 PM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

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I think he meant "gig" as in a show, performance, concert, etc.

Most gigs will fit nicely on a cdr.



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I'm glad to see someone else thought the same thing I did.
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Old 2008-01-04, 11:38 PM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

the cd plays fine, it was a bit scratched on the outer part of the cd, i was wondering why it did it when put into the computer?
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Old 2008-01-05, 08:15 AM
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Re: Computer scratches my cd.

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the cd plays fine, it was a bit scratched on the outer part of the cd, i was wondering why it did it when put into the computer?
Maybe the T Rex was still "kicking"?
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