Is Your Aluminium iMac scratching your Disks?

Hi, took me a while to realise this, but my nice shiny new Intel iMac scratches my disks! I've noticed scratching on nearly all the disks I put into my mac, looking at the entry slot its just aluminium, no protective cover at all. It scratched one of my Logic Studio disks so badly that it wouldn't load, fortunately I managed to get a local company to polish out the scratches - BUT I shouldn't have to do this, I think its a design fault. Anyone out there experiencing the same?

About a year ago, someone posted a problem with the aluminum iMacs scratching disks. I couldn't prove that some of my scratched disks were from my iMac, but did a test using an old CD. If I inserted the CD with just the least bit of pressure against that aluminum knife-edge, it would scratch.
I considered applying tape to the opening or buffing it with some sandpaper. Good reasons not to do either. So, I just take extra care when inserting the disks. But that disk slot is very narrow and very unforgiving when you slam in a disk.
Anyone else have a solution?

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diskutil list
/dev/disk0
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk0
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   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            2.0 TB     disk0s2
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/dev/disk1
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/dev/disk3
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Password:
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gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 3907029167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
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3905759592     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3907029128           7
3907029135          32         Sec GPT table
3907029167           1         Sec GPT header
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Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 243201/255/63 [3907029168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
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1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 3907029167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
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Boot Camp: Partition alert message when using Boot Camp Assistant - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203913
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one OS X partition
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204009
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hello, i am operating on a model a1286 mbp mid 2009 laptop, with 4 gb ram 360 gb hdd,
snow leapord updated to maverick,
bootcamped w/ win 7 32-bit
i tried in mac os x maverick to use bootcamp assistant to partition my bootcamp 180 gb partition to be erased and then to start the install of 64-bit.
the partitioning was stuck at about 17 percent for an hour, so i quit the bootcamp assistant - ive seen on reddit this was a bad thing to do, but i did it anyway because i saw someone posted about being to reboot and do a hdd repair then reboot and try to partition again
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i googled and saw i had togo into single user mode by pressing cmd-s during boot and typing /sbin/fsck -fy
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is there a command i could enter into the EFI shell? or single user mode? to repair the hdd partition in the mac os x maverick and the bootcamp legacy os side since the first time i tried erasing everything on the win 7 32-bit side bootcamp assistant got stuck at 17 percent partitioning then I voluntarily quit the program = now i cant partition bca gives me error of:
"Your disk could not be partitioned" "An error occurred while partitioning the disk"
thanks in advance,
-r

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