Cleaning a CD/DVD laser
You’ve probably heard that fingerprints and other grime are not good for the surface of CDs or DVDs but how about the CD/DVD burner itself? Ed Bott relates his experience:
Have you cleaned your CD or DVD burner’s laser lately? Until this week, I had never tried using a special disk to clean dust from the laser in my optical drive. But that turned out to be the sure cure for a stubborn problem I encountered recently, and I thought it might be worth sharing my experience here.
For the past month or so, I’ve been frustrated when trying to burn music CDs. In a typical session I might be able to burn one music CD successfully, but trying to burn another would fail. The writing software would hang or appear to complete successfully and then return a write error. In some cases the drive itself would lock up so tightly the disk couldn’t be ejected until a restart. The burned disks wouldn’t play back properly on any other device.
He goes on to tell how special disks designed to clean the laser on a CD/DVD player/burner fixed his problems, among them a Memorex model costing about $8.
Have any readers had experience with this type of cleaning disk?
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