Since a few days my CD/DVD drive damages CDs while simply reading them - not even while burning.
After reading a cd (both audio and data), a burned circle is clearly visible at about 3 mm (1/8") from disc centre and cd becomes unreadable. Luckily I didn't lose any data since I have multiple backups, but it's scary anyway.
Nothing similar ever happened to me in my 20+ years pc experience.
Anyone has had a similar experience? I can't tell which is the reason:
- damaged hardware?
or
- can a software problem (damaged drivers or firmware) cause a hardware problem?
or
- can a virus force hardware to write again to an already written sector on a closed-session cd?
(although I am quite careful, and have an antivirus, antispyware and firewall...)