Cd Drive

cemlions

Canada43 Posts

June 13 2010 05:13 GMT

So, I have had Broodwar in my CD drive for about 2 months now, without ejecting once. I decided to take out BW because I wanted to burn music. At this point I found out that my cd drive no longer reads any kind of CD. What is odd about the situation is that I no longer need BW cd even in the drive to play Single or Multi player modes. I have heard that the cd drive gets broken when a cd gets kept in the drive for too long. So basically my question is wether or not the drive is fucked, and if their is anything I can do other than replacing it at this point.

FragKrag

United States11550 Posts

June 13 2010 05:18 GMT

At one point, Blizzard released a patch that allowed you to play SCBW without the CD. (I think)

Trowabarton756

United States870 Posts

June 13 2010 05:29 GMT

On June 13 2010 14:18 FragKrag wrote:
At one point, Blizzard released a patch that allowed you to play SCBW without the CD. (I think)

you fail at reading the op. You can try reinstalling the drivers op but you may be fucked.

cemlions

Canada43 Posts

June 13 2010 05:35 GMT

On June 13 2010 14:29 Trowabarton756 wrote:

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you fail at reading the op. You can try reinstalling the drivers op but you may be fucked.

Well that answer was very succinct, lol. Thankyou

FragKrag

United States11550 Posts

June 13 2010 05:41 GMT

On June 13 2010 14:29 Trowabarton756 wrote:

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you fail at reading the op. You can try reinstalling the drivers op but you may be fucked.

What is odd about the situation is that I no longer need BW cd even in the drive to play Single or Multi player modes

eLiE

Canada1039 Posts

June 13 2010 07:07 GMT

idk about leaving cd's in the drive for too long, but i do know that cd drives pretty commonly die, ive had to replace a couple, its pretty cheap if you go somewhere like tigerdirect. probably around 30-50 bucks, no big deal. and i like the way blizzard and steam let you download the game clients so you don't need disks. a step in the right direction!

ghermination

United States2851 Posts

June 13 2010 08:42 GMT

CD drives are rediculously cheap and all about the same standard of quality. The only real choices are between SATA and IDE, if you're still using that.

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