EoC Play Disc Lost!

I fired up EoC to check out the Spiff model yesterday, and... nothing happened. CD-ROM just sat there spinning.

So I figured the CD-ROM was the problem. I put the disc into my other drive... and the same thing.

So I inspect the disc and find a band of scratches around the outer rim of the disc. Cleaning had no effect... it will not run. [}]

Luckily, I made backups of both my discs about a year ago. I popped in the backup play disc and was up and running.

Has anyone ever heard of a CD-ROM physically scratching up a disc? It never made any grinding noises or acted strange.

I'm making a copy of my backup disc to store in case this ever happens again, and won't use the drive it usually sat in. It just seems weird that it would scratch it up without me ever hearing anything.

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did your wife do it maybe?(just kidding). god knows nicole has threatend the well being of my EoC discs[]

"Dust to dust we're wired into sadness"

That's dependent on the length of the relationship.

A marriage only a few years old? Yeah, I might suspect foul play.

But get seven years under your belt... Hell, she'd replace the disc. And make backups. Numerous backups.

EoC keeps me out of her hair. :)

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Shane does it look like a head crash or marks caused by the still spinning disk scraping on the pads in the tray? There are various ways of running the game without the disks which are legal if you own your own copy.

Jumbo


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Originally posted by Shane
EoC keeps me out of her hair. :)

LMAO, maybe i should explain that virtue of it to nicole and she'd see it differently.....

"Dust to dust we're wired into sadness"

@Jumbo: It does look like marks made by the pads. Somewhat flat and even. What would that mean? That I've got something out of alignment in the tray? I'll check it out this evening to see if a pads come loose or is misaligned.

@Sivadrake: I bought EoC for about $25 USD I think... over 2 years ago. My wife once said that it was the best entertainment deal, and she'd ever seen <translation: it keeps me from cutting holes in the walls as I get bored and add expansions to the house>.

You know, when I think about EoC's price and how much entertainment value I've gotten from this game it's obscene. I pay double that amount every month for satelite tv which is only watched occasionally.

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