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  • What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside

    From nospam@21:1/5 to ANTant@zimage.com on Mon Feb 27 07:02:11 2017
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.systems

    In article <i6mdneUWFJAxfC7FnZ2dnUU7-a-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:

    Is it safe to use those CD cleaners with tiny brushes on them in these
    disc slot drives? I am trying to see if I can fix the old early 2008
    MBP's internal optical disc drive to read DVD+R DLs, CDRWs, etc.

    buy an external for $10

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  • From android@21:1/5 to nospam on Mon Feb 27 13:39:47 2017
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.systems

    In article <270220170702112437%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
    nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

    In article <i6mdneUWFJAxfC7FnZ2dnUU7-a-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:

    Is it safe to use those CD cleaners with tiny brushes on them in these
    disc slot drives? I am trying to see if I can fix the old early 2008
    MBP's internal optical disc drive to read DVD+R DLs, CDRWs, etc.

    buy an external for $10

    No real harm could be done trying a cleaning disk, if readily available
    then...
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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to David B. on Tue Feb 28 04:27:55 2017
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.systems

    In comp.sys.mac.systems David B. <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> wrote:
    On 27/02/2017 12:02, nospam wrote:
    In article <i6mdneUWFJAxfC7FnZ2dnUU7-a-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:

    Is it safe to use those CD cleaners with tiny brushes on them in these
    disc slot drives? I am trying to see if I can fix the old early 2008
    MBP's internal optical disc drive to read DVD+R DLs, CDRWs, etc.

    buy an external for $10

    Really?

    http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD564LL/A/apple-usb-superdrive

    Ouch. 3/5 stars?
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