Is my CD-Drive fucked?

[evilhacker]

So a friend gave me a disk with a sticker on it. I put it inside and copied the stuff to my HDD and when i took it out the sticker was gone, so it's stuck inside of my cd drive. Days later i had to make a WinXP installation CD, 2 of them. 1 i gave to a friend and the other one was for myself.

So I went to re-installl the OS of a client and in the middle of copying the files, i got some error copying file ####, error copying file ####, etc.. No matter how many times i pressed to retry it never managed to copy.

Days later, my friend comes and says the same thing that he also gets that error from the CD i burned him.

Anyways, before i got the sticker stuck into the cd drive, it was all working well. I was making boot CDs with no problems and errors upon copying, this started happening after the sticker incident.

So what am I supposed to do now? Will i have to open it up and try and find the little piece of paper in there? I'm 100% sure it's not the OS or software, i'm using Windows 7 with Ashampoo Burning Studio to burn. Speed set was always 16x on my older boot CDs which worked and on the latest ones which now fail.

[chernabog]

just open it and remove that ticket ...pretty easy
dont touch the reading head with your hands


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0QfzYmUopc&feature=related

[evilhacker]

Thanks but i'm not sure if i can solve this by myself.. I tried that with a drive at my school and i couldn't put back the screws and all that.

But do you think that is causing the copy problem?

[Stackprotector]

Thanks but i'm not sure if i can solve this by myself.. I tried that with a drive at my school and i couldn't put back the screws and all that.

But do you think that is causing the copy problem?

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Screw (simple machine) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia      This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2010)       A machine used to demonstrate the action of a screw, 1912. It consists of a threaded shaft through a hole in a stationary mount. When the crank on the right is turned, the shaft moves horizontally through the hole.   A screw is one of the six classical simple machines. It can convert a rotational motion to a linear motion, and a torque (rotational force) to a linear force. The most common form consists of a cylindrical shaft with helical grooves or ridges called threads around the outside. The screw passes through a hole in another object or medium, with stationary threads on the inside of the hole. When the shaft of the screw is rotated relative to the stationary threads, the screw moves along its axis relative to the medium surrounding it; for example rotating a woodscrew forces it into wood. Geometrically, a screw can be viewed as a narrow inclined plane wrapped around a shaft.
Other mechanisms that use the same principle, also called screws, don't necessarily have a shaft or threads. For example, an Archimedes' screw is a water pump that uses a rotating helical chamber to move water uphill. The common principle of all screws is that a rotating helix can cause linear motion.
 [edit] Lead and pitch A screw's lead is defined as the linear distance the screw travels in one revolution (360°). The lead determines the mechanical advantage of the screw; the smaller the lead, the higher the mechanical advantage.[1] The pitch of a screw is defined as the distance between adjacent threads. In most screws, called "single start" screws, which have a single helical thread, the lead and pitch are equal. They only differ in "multiple start" screws, which have several intertwined threads. In these screws the lead is equal to the pitch multiplied by the number of starts
 [edit] Uses Practical screw devices may or may not have a shaft around which the thread is wrapped; the propeller blade, for example, does not. Uses include:
 the bolt, used as a fastener together with a nut or tapped hole with mating threadthe metal woodscrew, a fastener with a thread sharp enough to cut its way through wood, forming a thread in the wood, driving the screw in, and holding it in placethe screw top, to hold the lid of a bottle or jar tightly in placethe lathe screw, which uses rotation of a knob by hand to make much smaller, precisely controlled linear movementsthe similar worm gear, to drive a perpendicular gear with increased mechanical advantagethe lead screw, ball screw and roller screw, which convert screw rotation to linear movement of a shaftthe corkscrewthe micrometer, essentially a calibrated, precise screw used for measuring linear distancesthe propeller blade to move a water- or aircraft, an example of a screw of less than one turn which is not required to move a shaftthe electric fan blade, a fixed propeller which moves the airthe helical twist drill bit, an Archimedean screw used to remove swarf from a hole being drilledthe screw conveyor, closely related to the Archimedean screw [edit]

[theellimist]

Just take your time taking it apart, don't lose any of the screws, remember which ones go where, etc, and make sure you do it on a clean surface. But I am positive that that sticker is the problem.

[xor]

You left the sticker in and you had to ask what's causing the problem? ...

[puddi]

whack it with a hammer till it gets all opened up if you cant be asses do use screws, take out the paper and then ducktape it

note: there is no warranty this will 100% work!!!!