Can CD/DVD drives scratch CD's/DVD's?

[Unfocused]

A 1.5 month ago I bought BF2 and since then it's in my drive nearly all the time. Even though, when I take it out of the drive, it seems there are little scratches on it. How can that be, when I take the disc out and put it in carefully? When I checked like a week ago there were fewer little scratches on it than a few minutes ago. Is it possible that the drive is scratching my DVD while reading it? It's an LG brand, not some noname one.

 

[ComradeBadger]

It is possible, but I've never heard of an LG drive doing it - I know a lot of prebuilt machines with shitty drives chew discs badly :|

 

[Krynn72]

yes they can. I found that out when I was playing KOTOR once, and when I took the disk out, it had a huge scratch going around the circumference. I can no longer play kotor

 

[JellyWorld]

I dropped my FIFA 2005 disc off the top bunk of my cousin's bed and broke it in half I still have the install disc though, might try and find a no cd crack for it.

 

[FictiousWill]

I dropped my FIFA 2005 disc off the top bunk of my cousin's bed and broke it in half I still have the install disc though, might try and find a no cd crack for it.

Wow. That was completely random.


Anyway - All a cd/dvd drive does is spin the disc over a lens, so if some crap or other gets in the drive, say a speck of dirt or sand or whatever it's conceivable that it may scratch against the disc while it spins. Scrateches that go with the direction of the data (that is, around the disc) are far more likely to corrupt the disc data than scratches from teh center to the edge. Rule of thumb is not to leave your disc drives open if you don't need to. And hell, blow some compressed air in there every month or so. That can't hurt.

 

[J_Tweedy]

Unfocused- the eact same thing has happened to me- i have barely taken mine out, but when i did, it had scuff marks from the center out, and it was really dirty, with smudges and stuff all over it- strange.

 

[Unfocused]

I dropped my FIFA 2005 disc off the top bunk of my cousin's bed and broke it in half I still have the install disc though, might try and find a no cd crack for it.

uh, ok...

 

[ComradeBadger]

In fact, problems like this can be caused by improper flowing of air through the case - if there are no dedicated intakes, air will rush in through other open spaces in the case, including the optical drives, causing dust and other grit to build up inside them.

 

[Lahire149]

Try to clean the drive with compressed air.

And about your KOTOR cd, just (legally) pitrate another copy.

 

[Unfocused]

Try to clean the drive with compressed air.

And about your KOTOR cd, just (legally) pitrate another copy.

Yeah, I thought about downloading BF2 in case my DVD get's too scratched, but wouldn't there be problems with copy protection? And BTW, I guess it's morally right to dload a game you actually bought, but is it legal from the law's point of view?

 

[Ren.182]

Its leagal if you own a legit copy of the game, as long as you only use it for back-up purposes. Like, keeping your cd's in mint condition and what not.

 

[Lahire149]

Yeah, I thought about downloading BF2 in case my DVD get's too scratched, but wouldn't there be problems with copy protection? And BTW, I guess it's morally right to dload a game you actually bought, but is it legal from the law's point of view?

technically, not sure, but it's ok cause you own it...
and there copyprotection bypasses...
no more discussion on this topic, might get closed.

Any succcess with your drive yet?

 

[OmegaX]

Wow thats wierd. I also have had my Battlefield 2 disk in my drive for quite some time. Then the other day i take it out at its all scratched to hell. I've only touched the disk when I first installed the game. This is the first time i noticed it scratching any game. Perhaps its something to do with the Battlefield 2 CD?

 

[Unfocused]

Wow thats wierd. I also have had my Battlefield 2 disk in my drive for quite some time. Then the other day i take it out at its all scratched to hell. I've only touched the disk when I first installed the game. This is the first time i noticed it scratching any game. Perhaps its something to do with the Battlefield 2 CD?

Actually, when I look at the BF2 DVD, I can see some "lines" like if inside the DVD, that are not scratches. It's like if it was broken in the inside and those lines form a pattern, they're not random. wtf? I would post a photo but due to the reflective surface of the DVD it might be hard to show those "lines".