[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by Frank(Aflak)

The CD was flawed, it failed at high speeds. Its more common than you would think.

The CD is, of course, unrecoverable (call the publisher, they will probably send you a new one if you ask nicely).

The drive is toast, too. Good news: maybe you can talk your dad into buying a new dual-layer DVD burner so you can back up all those DVD movies you have laying around (your local blockbuster . . shhhh!).

If the computer turned back on, its probably all OK, but there is a chance you fried the IDE channel or damaged any number of different components with the voltage fluctuations related to a rapidly failing peice of hardware.

Sometimes the drive is recoverable, but the fact that the magic smoke came out of this one leads me to believe that it is dead. Open it, take a shop vac (careful!) to it, needlenose, whatever to get all teh little peices out, it might be fine.

Yeah, I don't think I'll really have the time to open it until this weekend, but I'll see if it is recoverable. If not, I've got another DVD-Burner/CD-Rom Drive in the computer, and yet another CD-Drive laying around the house somewhere if I need that.

And this was a music CD, and I had all of the songs backed up onto my computer anyways.