CD/DVD Drive Scratching Disks, Even After Replacing Drive

[wexer9]

My CD/DVD drive is scratching all my disks, even when I tried two other drives, one which was brand new. So far none of my disks have been scratched to the point of unusability, but I am worried that they eventually will. It doesn't seem to happen all that quickly, I have used some of these disks quite a lot and they still work. Then again, I don't know when this problem started. I only discovered a week or so ago. In case it matters, I have removed Starforce from my system, which unfortunately means I won't be able to play Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, but I heard Starforce sometimes caused problems like this. The problems haven't stopped, though.

 

[pinaplex]

is your case/dvd drive level? the case itself might be tilted so it will cause the disks not to spin level. which might be the cause of the scratches.

 

[wexer9]

Interesting, I will have to check. If this is it, then it's interesting that it would be in wrong for all three drives. Any more ideas?

 

[wexer9]

It didn't work, any other suggestions?

 

[wexer9]

Seriously, my drive is scratching my disks no matter what I do and some of the scratches look pretty serious.

 

[lolitha]

hmm this is first time i heard of that ?? how can it scratch disks. I don't think Lens touches the disk , optical drives reads using a beam of laser light isn't i t??

 

[thos]

optical drives reads using a beam of laser light isn't i t??

you don't know?
Well then I cann tell you. It uses a needle that fits into grooves on the disk. It's atually just a phonogrphy record; in fact, if you have some of your old 45 rpms, the ones with the big hole in the center, they will work just fine.