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Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:46 pm |
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Does anyone know how I could corrupt a read-only CD so that the installer is broken, but it's not obvious? I'm trying to figure out something.
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Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:25 pm |
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Can't really see why you would want to do that but it should be quite easy. Just extract the installer, remove a file or two from it, replace the removed files with equivalent size and named text files and then repack it and reburn it. That way the installer won't function at all. Is this what you mean by the way?
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On a read only CD I don't know, if you can re-burn it though than Graham's method above should work
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Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:55 pm |
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Nevermind, I just decided to do it the old way and scrape it up with a cheese grader. 
(it had some source code for an app I had written on it) |
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ar1stotle
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:46 am |
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Still don't understand why you'd want to cripple a CD instead of simply destroying it... and as far as not being obvious, a cheese grater can't be subtle...
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Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:27 pm |
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| ar1stotle wrote: |
| Still don't understand why you'd want to cripple a CD instead of simply destroying it... and as far as not being obvious, a cheese grater can't be subtle... |
It was an old CD. A VERY old CD. One of those 21 minute ones.
Hadn't used it in several years, but one of my friends wanted it for something, he plugged it in and told me "That's not a blank disc".
Not to mention, it wasn't RW! I wouldn't have even be able to use it again. 
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jaelanicu
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Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:52 pm |
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IMO, there's no other way except to make it totally unreadable and not recognizeable by the drive while keeping the disc shape intact. You can do this by physically damaging the inner "tracks" on the disc surface. Severely scratch either side or only the bottom side if you want to keep the upper side. Or you can cover the bottom side using a black permanent marker.
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Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:53 pm |
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When I was using the cheese grader, bits and peices of the bottom of the disk were falling into the trashcan. As this was happening, the disc starting smelling more and more like pancake syrup.
Since when do electronics smell like pancake syrup (with the exception of having the syrup spilled on it)???  |
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rsbford
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Tue Dec 25, 2007 12:08 am |
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2-4 seconds in a microwave will take care of business. Makes a nice mobile with enough cd's. Of course it's not very subtle.....and a person would notice. Try a throw-a-way disk - hard to make a disk any more crippled than that without running a shredder.
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