I didn't use a brutal amount of force, but I wasn't particularly gentle either. Supposedly it's just inside the left boundary, but I plunged my improvised cleaner in everywhere I could, as deep as I could get it. You take a clean cloth (like a lens cloth for cleaning eyeglasses), drape it over something slim like a business card or a smooth plastic gift card, and plum the depths of your drive in an attempt to clean the lens. I don't do much with discs, and since it's a 4.5 year old laptop, I never got it serviced, which predictably landed me in a bind.Īnyway, that's when I stumbled across a solution: I think it starting doing this for CDs sooner than it did for DVDs (more powerful laser?), but I can't recall for certain.
When I say 'stopped working,' I mean that it wouldn't recognize a disc: I'd insert the disc, it would spin around a little, make some chugging noises, but then spit it back out. D I think), experienced a long, slow decline in its performance, and finally it stopped working altogether. The SuperDrive on my MacBook Pro (circa 2007, rev.