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deleting files from DVD/CD?
Carol Haynes:
Hammers ... fair point ...
Not for the microwave potentially!
tomos:
I suppose you could get much the same effect with a hammer (save it for when you are really frustrated with something and let yiourself go).
-Carol Haynes (July 06, 2007, 05:40 AM)
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A few seconds in a microwave works wonders, btw:
-f0dder (July 06, 2007, 05:45 AM)
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Hammers ... fair point ...
Not for the microwave potentially!
-Carol Haynes (July 06, 2007, 05:47 AM)
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;D ;D ;D
mwb1100:
To recover the disc would require polishing out all the pits but that would be very difficult without specialist equipment and would probably make the protective plastic layer so thin that the recording surface would be damaged in the process.
-Carol Haynes (July 06, 2007, 05:40 AM)
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The pits should be made on the label side of the disc - the recording layer rides between the plastic (polycarboate) and whatever's on the top of the label side of the disk. This is why if you use stick-on CD labels, they'll often destroy the recording if/when they peel off (and one reason why many people consider stick-on labels a bad idea). If the pits are made on the label side, they actually remove bits of the recording layer - no amount of polishing will bring that back. I would expect that the 'CD shredder' would pit both sides to ensure the recording layer got destroyed.
Also, many paper shredders claim to be able to handle CDs.
I just cut then in half with a pair of scissors, but I never have to do more than a few at any particular time.
Lashiec:
f0dder, that's one funky coaster
f0dder:
f0dder, that's one funky coaster
-Lashiec (July 06, 2007, 06:33 PM)
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It took ~3 seconds in the microwave to make it look like that... along with scary sounds from the microwave itself, and blue lightning bolts along the surface of the disc. Preeeeety funky stuff :D :-*
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