What would cause a disc to shatter into bits inside in my dvd/cd rewriter ?

Question

this happening after just having installed a game off of it and was starting to play for the 1st time.

Answer 1

If the drive is a high speed drive, AND the disk itself had a flaw (small crack or somthing) the high rotation speed may cause a disk to shatter.

Not a common occurence, but it can happen

Answer 2

It's just a thing that rarely happens with 48x and higher read speeds. If you ever watch the disc spin from a video in slo-motion (like they did on mythbusters) you would see at a speed that high the thin disc is very unstable and is easy to shatter. If your computer isn't too old you can take it back to whoever you bought it from and they should fix the cdrom (give you a new one), but you will probably have just lost that game and need to buy another.

Answer 3

When I studied this at college all of the above was pretty much said, only other thing I would suggest is that the disk maker/Game maker may be using low quality disks when burning them for resale. So if you buy it again, burn it to a good quality disk before playing it again. Some games load at higher speeds and it may have just self-destructed.

Answer 4

Yeah, its what these guy said. Its the speed of the drive combind with the integrity of the disc. Mythbusters did a bit on this. Look it up on their website. They have some really intersting highspeed footage of the discs breaking apart.

Answer 5

High rotational speed combined with a thin disk and possibly minuscule flaws equals shattered disk!

Answer 6

they pretty much answered why the disk shattered but as for the game disk contact the publisher and tell them what happened and that you want another disk they just might send you a new one