HOLY CRIST!!!!!!!!!

May the lord help you from your misery.

And may the CD tray rest in pieces.....err......peace.

It may need some refinement but perhaps we could turn that into a new effects mod. Realistic flak explosions at last  .

Never heard of that happening before.  I feel sorry for you Mustang.

The discovery Channel show "Myth Busters" ran an episode which covered the "Explosive CD" effect. They put many CDs through punishing conditions to see if todays high speed CD Rom Drives would cause them to shatter into millions of pieces. They even went so far as to place a gelatin Dummy in close proximity to the un-shrouded CD rom. (It was just spinning with no computer around it) and the shards of CD looked like shrapnel which embedded aproximately 1/4 to 1/2 inch into the simulated skin.

Many of the CDs which went through the punishing tests (Thrown to the ground, left in the sun, and even placed into the microwave) held up to the high RPM but a few of the CDs wobbled within the drive and began to flex and suddenly exploded into thousands of tiny pieces! the super slow motion shots were great of this event.

The myth buster crew concluded that given all of their testing, the "Myth" of exploding CDs was FACT and that the odds of it ever occuring are one in millions!

You seem very un-lucky - dont leave the house haha. Sorry about your CD rom that sucks big time!!!

P.S. has anyone ever placed a CD in the microwave?? the effect is pretty cool, place an unwanted CD into the microwave and turn it on high for about 3 to 5 seconds. and watch the action! (3 to 5 seconds striuctly!)

  Contact Microsoft, let them know that their CD distroyed your CD Rom, perhaps they'll replace it.  Its worth a try.

Welcome to the world of high speed cd rom drives!

My MSI CD/RW warns not to write @ 52xspeed with "unbranded" disks, these tend to shatter at high rpm apparently!

Me thinks M$ uses cheapo disks! 

I'm glad I use CD patches........

I thought shattering disks in drives was a load of pap, apparently, I'm wrong! 

Ouch, bad luck.

Talking of bad luck, not long ago my fs 2002 disk suddenly developed a tiny crack (I treat my disks very well) which appeared out of nowhere.

This was really bad luck because at the time I was having probs with my FS and had to re-install.

The crack was from the inside and soon after some desperate attempts to squeeze anything from it, the crack was so long that the disk didnt want to spin anymore (luckily as it now seems from reading this).

So I just popped down to my local game shop and exchanged it. (I keep receipts for ages)


Microsoft would just blame you for the fact that the disc must be damaged somehow. Maby if you spent loads of money on a big lawsuit with adequate testing, you might get your $70 back.

Me thinks that your CD had a crack in it. If there is a crack in the CD going out from the middle hole then NEVER use it again as there is a huge risk of it shattering into millions of little pieces. Its not a myth, if you use cracked CDs then its going to happen sometime.

If you use the appropriate No-CD patch, as I have always done, there is no risk of this happening - unless you need to reinstall the sim. In this case, always examine the CD carefully before inserting it into the drive.