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Originally Posted by kryogenik
We used to clean old well used CDROM lasers with a bit of spittle and a cotton bud on the laser eye. 
Worth a go.
But in my experience with DVDRW+, it can always be a bit hit and miss.
Have you tried burning the disc at a low a speed as possible?
I Found RW- to be better, but I agree the full format should really have done the trick.
I did eventually give up though and bought a DivX player and used a USB key.
Now just the Xbox does everything. |
The iMac's superdrive is completely internal and slot-loading. You can't get at the laser. If cleaning it is likely to help, then I need some sort of cleaning implement. I have a CD player cleaner; it's a disc with plastic brushes glued to it. But I want to be sure I'm not doing more harm than good by putting it inside my iMac.
The problem I am having is with both burned and unburned DVD+RWs not being recognised, and being spat out after about 15 seconds of the iMac trying to mount them. I have managed to produce some DVD-Rs without any issues though.