Why are NEW CD's so DAMN difficult to open?
360678
I work retail. It's to keep them from getting stolen. Lots of $$ has been lost from CD's and DVD's and such being stolen. But, it's sad that even cashiers have a hard time taking that plastic around them off. Some really struggle and they even have the device that's meant to help lol
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There are products on the market that will clean cd's, unsure of what they cost though.  Another alternative is to 'rip' the cd to your computer and write it to a new disk, depending on how bad it is it may help with skip errors.
235153
mr bonjagles is rite but if its too hard for you then \nyou can just install a fresh copy
933025
The same amount used to open a newly-purchased CD.
801800
Well the drive may be bad. Know that.\n\nYou can use a few tools to boot and scan disks and even reformat them.\n\nStart with BartPE... it is a windows environment loaded from CD.\n\nFrom there you can launch all sorts of drive utilities.\n\nStart with a scan, then reformat, then buy a new drive...
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The awesome sponging that is ISO when when making 1:1 cd copies.\n\nIt just has a bunch of "empty space"(bytes filled with spacebar characters) and the compression program saves those white spaces in exponential notation rather than packing each useless byte.
481181
Open the CD drawer put in the windows disk, wait, hit enter wait more. Type some stuff in. Wait. Done
151537
cracked CD's can damage your CD Drive..
363656
most likely your cd is bad, give it a good cleaning the try again, then buy a new cd
8784
It could be both, but the last two times that it has happen to my department at work, all I did was change out the cd unit.  One thing that you may want to do if you can not get a new cd unit at this time is trying to download the driver for it again.  Sometimes that is a fix.  I know a few years ago these type of problems use to happen when there was a virus, but the hackers and people who spread these virus around are not trying to get more of your data and cause more of an overall computer problem, than just a cd opening and closing.  Hope this helps.
633043
stop piracy...buy the originals ... if u lost the cd-key for something that u bought...contact the support services to help u out..
116704
Probably the button is broken :)\nJust so you know there is usually a manual open button that looks like a little pinhole on the cd-drive. \nThis probably isn't a software issue because if it was, no software would be able to open the CD-drive either. Nearly 99% chance of a hardware problem.
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It's pretty bad. I used to have this happen on my old computer but it was because the window CD was corrupted in certain sectors from scratches.\n\nUsually the cause is some kind of hardware problem if it's not the cd, make sure everythings clipped in tightly. If you have an extra harddrive from a scrap computer that might help test.
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Use 'Virtual CD'.. This helps u with that ;-)\n\n And also a few software (like games), need the original cd inside for them to run. This also helps in faking that and makes the S/W work without the C.D/D.V.D
705351
is your cd badly scratched?
993507
No, you cannot glue a CD back together. The player wont even recognize the disc.
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been there too. cd rw disks are unmanagable. i cant find a decent brand that i dont encounter a problem. first you have to format it which takes too long. and when you use another computer it wont be recognized. so what i do now is just use cdr which is much cheaper than rewritables. i just transferre my previous backups to cdr. i used the original drive to read and write to another media. or you can transfer the old cdrw to your new computer. it is not advisable to have a combo on a desktop cause if it breaks then you lost both functionality.