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I was playing Settlers IV when I heard a loud bang, I wasn't sure where the noise came from so I continued to play the game. The music stopped but all other sounds could still be heard. When I finished playing I tried to take the disc out but the drawer would not open. We managed eventually to open it with a carefully placed paper clip. The disc had exploded inside the disc drive. Pieces everywhere! My husband had to take out the whole disc drive to retrieve the pieces. Does anyone know a way I can continue to play this game without having to buy another one, and are exploding discs a common problem? I had never heard of this before.
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No, exploding CD's are not a common problem, but they do happen. Usually to force a CD to explode you've got to have at least a > 40x CD-ROM drive. That's nearly 9000 RPM and will cause even a slightly damaged CD to explode. You could try contacting the company and let them know what happened, see if they'll sympathize with you, otherwise try a bittorrent site, if you use your product key that you purchased you should be fine.
www.torrentspy.com
www.mininova.org
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Thank you, I will try those. I asked my husband and he said that the disc drive is >40x, so that could have been the problem. :)
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