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worked

19 Feb 2012 13:57:07 PST

thanks soo much! i did lens cleaning and didn't work . thanks you saved me money. ...

web-solutions-company Try with this ...

01 Jan 2012 20:51:58 PST

This totally worked. Thanks so much that was really irritating. I didn't even think about going into the disk utilities, ...

It's not every year

08 Nov 2011 18:16:20 PST

It's not every year, and if you look around, you'll see optical drive failures are common across the entire industry. No ...

Annual fix of superdrive required?

08 Nov 2011 06:40:32 PST

This happened to my 2010 Mac Pro 13" superdrive as well, spitting out any disk I tried to submit. Just after w ...

As you see more drives.

08 Sep 2011 08:38:41 PDT

You'll find some that spring back to life. They usually sputter and die later but we always try the lens cleaner and re ...

Weird fix, but I just got mine working!

08 Sep 2011 01:25:13 PDT

What I did to fix mine was I went to system preferences, then to language and text. In there on the left I dragged a ran ...

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05 Sep 2011 07:28:49 PDT

Try with this ...

1. Open Disk Utilites
2. Click on your Hard drive partition "Macintosh (or what ever yo ...

Agree with Bob

26 Aug 2011 06:25:45 PDT

I agree with Bob. Any time I get something like this coming across my workbench, I just replace the drive. Not sure why ...

Having changed many drives.

25 Aug 2011 18:51:01 PDT

It seems to be the common and right fix. ...

Same issue

25 Aug 2011 18:44:32 PDT

I have the exact same problem on my MacBook...did the lens cleaner work, or do I have to get an external or something? ...

Same problem here

29 Sep 2010 01:45:40 PDT

Hi- I've just started with the exact same problem on my I-mac... How did u eventually sort it out? Did a lens cleaner do ...

A replacement one of these

08 Dec 2009 09:16:58 PST

can be had for $147 if you fit it yourself. (It's fairly easy)

Failing that, you could purchase an external enclo ...

MacBook CD/DVD drive won't read discs

08 Dec 2009 00:56:25 PST

I have the exact same problem. I'd like to know what you did? Did you have to get it fixed? My CD's too get ejected and ...

MacBook Air

20 Feb 2009 20:04:32 PST

Well, the MacBook Air doesn't have an optical drive, and it's set up to share drives with desktops.

I suppose ...

Yes, a lens cleaner..

15 Feb 2009 14:17:47 PST

I agree with trying a lens cleaning disk. It's highly unfortunate for you if the drive has failed so soon; they should ...

Hmmm, OK

15 Feb 2009 06:33:39 PST

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Hint:

14 Feb 2009 18:13:49 PST

"I was overseas and couldn't get to it until now." ...

Warranty extension

14 Feb 2009 17:09:38 PST

Not sure that is going to happen as the original has expired. You can extend with AppleCare right up to the day of expi ...

Try a lens cleaner but

14 Feb 2009 14:08:51 PST

Why not extend that warranty today? ...

MacBook CD/DVD drive won't read discs -- can it be fixed?

14 Feb 2009 13:04:39 PST

First, my MacBook is a little more than a year old and is no longer covered under warranty, so I would like to try any p ...