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Re: Disk Shattered
Disk's do shatter; Andy's right they need to be defective or severely damaged in some way. It happened before in my older desktop, if the case gets hot enough (around 50-60*C) and you keep the CD in there for a long time (a week or so), and you keep the computer on 24/7, then run the CD at around 52x, then kapow!

As for cleanup, you cant really do anything there; when it happened to me it damaged the disk drive, so I just recycled it and bought a new one. If you were lucky and it didn't scratch the lens/rip apart the internals, then you could try opening the case and use a strong vacuum to clean the fragments. Just don't use compressed air to blow away the bits.

Yep, I saw that mythbusters episode. Microwaving CD-R's can be so fun...
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