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can repeatedly trying to play a CD that won't play properly damage a laptop's CD drive?

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  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    it's just bouncing a laser around, if there's no problem with the actual drive i don't see how a bad disc would make one?
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    ok, well I don't know how these things work.

    I put the CD in and it was having some problem reading it and it was making this weird noise I don't fully know how to describe.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Do other CDs play properly?
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    Most of em.

    The CD in question was from the library basement sale so it not working properly is totally understandable (though there weren't any visible scratches or anything so I'm not sure what precisely is wrong with it).
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    If whatever physical defects the disc has aren't immediately obvious, odds are it won't hurt your drive. Even a disc with small cracks in it isn't going to splinter to bits in the drive, even in a high-speed one.

    That said, there's little point in repeatedly trying to play it? If it hasn't worked the first few times, it's probably not going to work at all.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    I am of the "think hard enough and it'll fix itself" school of electronic repair. Sometimes it even works! 

    anyway, how does one repair a non-functional CD

    can you even do that?

    I want to rip this collection of Russian hymns from Germany.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    If you find a store that sells CDs or DVDs, usually they'll have a machine that can buff out the scratches in a disc. Most places only charge a couple dollars for it.

    It's not guaranteed to work, but it's probably your best bet.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I used to go to Blockbuster for that, myself, but uh as you can tell that's not an option anymore.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    CentralAvenue said:

    If you find a store that sells CDs or DVDs, usually they'll have a machine that can buff out the scratches in a disc. Most places only charge a couple dollars for it.


    It's not guaranteed to work, but it's probably your best bet.
    We used to have one of those, but you had to hand crank it.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I've never tried one of those, but I've heard the versions you get for home use aren't as effective as the ones they have at stores...
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Probably not, but it actually worked really well if you could actually crank it sufficiently...
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