I'm really curious too, because I don't buy the explination of the problem myself. > “The user hears this horrible scraping noise because the driver forgot to

I'm really curious too, because I don't buy the explination of the problem myself. > “The user hears this horrible scraping noise because the driver forgot to park the disc head before it cut power to the disk,” she said. That shouldn't really be possible to cause that kind of damage, every modern drive I've seen (past 15-20 years?) has an automatic head return when powered off (usually magnetic or spring driven). This would be the same as just pulling the USB plug and having that result then.