Leave a disc in?

Is there any problem with leaving a disc in my iMac's drive on a regular basis? I don't use the disc drive very often but my son plays a certain game that is on DVD and I thought--why not just leave it in the drive instead of putting it away every day?

Duane-
Good point. If the drive sensed no disc it would not try to spin it up. Any disc in the drive would cause it to periodically spin up to max and step back until it hit the correct speed, thus causing wear and tear on the mechanism.
Not exactly like leaving an 8-inch boot floppy in the drive of yesteryear, however the less wear and tear the better.
-DaddyPaycheck

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*ATTENTION APPLE AND USERS*
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Toshiba satellite l505d-s5983
I have had this laptop for 4 years, and recently i was running into an issue where my laptop may die in hibernation during my commute.
Usually, I could pop the battery out, use wall power, and windows would resume...
However, one day it just wouldnt come back.
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Thanks for the quick response...
Hi You said you have the Windows 7 disc, but it does no good. Are trying to boot from the disc. What actually happens. Do you have the boot order set to boot from CD/DVD first and HD second. Are you powering off your PC with Bothdisc in CD Rom and then powering on your PC?
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I have 2 off brand power cords, specifically for my laptop. Both cords receive power at the box, and seem to do fine charging the batteries for both as well. As a side note, booting with AC unplugged doesn't result in any changes. Her laptop (the 3rd toshiba) is an A205, and seems to have no problem using one of my cords.
Can you borrow a external monitor??
I have a monitor for my HP desktop, which is functioning. When I plug it into the wall, and into either laptop (and attempting fn+f5) I get nothing. No signal from the monitor.
PS Did you get a power adapter with your ebay PC?
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Ive literally finished and ironed out the problems Ive had with a big Dual Layer project Ive been working on for 2 weeks.
Yesterday I successfully burned a project to DVD - and I had not been having any problems.
Then suddenly I tried another burn later in the day - and after all the encoding - iDVD ejected the blank DVD (before burning it) and appeared to freeze. The burn status bar remained complete saying project status: done. However iDVD was frozen like this - and the DVD is blank. I had to force quit as it would not respond.
I calmly tried again - same thing happened - it ejects the blank CD after encoding and freezes.
I decided to open a slightly different version of the iDVD project file I had also saved - and had the same problem....
So I tried to save a disc image instead - this time when I came back iDVD was gone - it had crashed and disappeared leaving no disc image.
I did some searching in this forum and I made some drive space and trashed my .plist files and repaired disc permissions.
I did another test burn this morning....SAME ISSUE - IDVD FROZE AND EJECTED THE BLANK DISC AFTER ENCODING....help! I have no idea what happened or what made it start behaving like this - I cant think of anything that changed on my system...and after all this work this bug has happened at the last hurdle....
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The project encoded - and then right at the end - it just ejected the blank CD and stopped...
here is a picture of the resulting iDVD screen.
As you can see - it just says 'done'. And the CD is sitting ejected and blank. The media is a fresh disc Verbatim +R DL. If I close the player nothing happens.
If I press the 'cancel' button iDVD says 'cleaning up' and just sits there doing nothing. It does not register as 'not responding' in the 'force quit application menu' - but nothing happens.
This is a real mystery to me. So frustrating I have the project finished! Something weird has happened...
Hi Rich...this project is a regular 4:3 PAL format.
I did try making a new project similar to the one Im trying to burn - and got the same result. Ditto with older versions of the project...
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Hi, i know this is not new but since i can't find any solution and apple support prefer staying behind the scene, i posted my problem.
I have a DVD with all my works files which is burned at the office using PC. Once i was home, i tried to copy the files to my emac (1,25 GH, 512, Tiger 10.4.2). It works for a while and then it stopped and saying can't find xxxxx file which is actually in the dvd. So i tried a couple times and did not work. I rejected the dvd for the first time it won't come out and i restarted the emac so it came out. After i restarted the emac, the combo drive won't take any burned DVD anymore ( i have memorex DVD) but it can take any comercial DVD or CD, e.g i insterted the Tiger upgrade DVD and it works good or Adobe CS CDs it works good. I was cleaning the lens using Memorex lens cleaner, it still throws my burned DVD out after a few second.
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The Apple Discussions are peer-to-peer exchanges among Apple users; if you want to contact Apple Support, try the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the Discussions pages.
If you look over other posts in this forum, you'll notice a common current complaint involves using 8x DVD media; can you try using 4x media?
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