103 used & new from Endust Lens Cleaner 262000DetailsAllsop CD and DVD FastWipes FREE Shipping on orders over $49. DetailsSkipDr DVD and CD Manual Disc Repair System FREE Shipping on orders over $49. 0.5 x 6 x 8.8 inches 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) #1 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Audio & Video Accessories > Cleaning & Repair > Disc Cleaners #45 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Television Accessories #69 in Electronics > Televisions & Video See all 1,043 customer reviews See all 1,043 customer reviews (newest first) works as it should..accepted by my Blu Ray players Just got the product and ran 3 times. Still didn't clean the lens on my Xbox. Disk has a very small brush for cleaning. Didn't do the job. Not happy at all. easy to use and does a good job I really couldn't believe that my CD player after 15 years stopped working !!! It was skipping then not paying cd at all until a friend suggested I purchase a lens cleaner disk .

Did it's job and was way cheaper then at bestbuy. My DVD player had stopped working for some time, tried everything & this did the trick. Item works fine for cleaning DVD or CD lens Did not work at all. it helps to cleanthe dvd player once a week thanks! This item did not work at all.Commercial Lighting Fixtures For Restaurants Digital Innovations 4190500 CleanDr for Car Audio & Video Laser Lens CleanerOutdoor Furniture Rental San Jose Ca Maxell DVD Lens Cleaner - 190059Cheap Labrador Puppies For Sale In Nj SkipDr DVD and CD Manual Disc Repair System Maxell CD-340 CD Lens Cleaner (190048)See here for a description of the physical cables that attach to your drive.

You might also make sure the drive is on Vista or Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). may also stop its ability to burn CDs and DVDs from working. You may have to reinstall burning software. See here for a description 5 stars and cost around $12: Allsop CD Laser-Lens Cleaner . You can purchase these special CDs at computer stores and office supply store for $2-$15. Here are more CD and DVD lens cleaners . Tips, tricks and solutions for your Mac problems Cures for an uncooperative CD/DVD drive Reader Ned Mitchell find his MacBook’s media drive is a little picky about the discs he inserts. My MacBook’s internal CD/DVD drive reads DVDs just fine. However, it’s less tolerant of CDs. Sometimes it loads them, other times, not. For example, in iTunes I can rip two CDs in a four-disc set but the other two discs are ejected shortly after I insert them. Any suggestions for a fix? This isn’t an entirely unusual problem—Apple’s discussion forums have several threads devoted to the topic.

Some have suggested that it can be fixed by reinstalling the Mac OS or zapping the computer’s PRAM (start up the Mac and hold down Command-Option-P-R until you hear two startup tones, then let go of the keys and allow the Mac to start up normally). But these aren’t sure-fire solutions. More likely, the drive’s lens is dirty or the drive is simply broken (or nearly so). If your MacBook is still under warranty or you have AppleCare for it, put it in Apple’s hands. The company isn’t shy about replacing these drives when they exhibit such behavior. If the Mac is out of warranty you can try fixing it yourself provided that the problem is related to a gunked-up lens. You can purchase drive cleaning kits that are intended to brush away crud from a drive’s lens. Some people have also had success using a can of compressed air to blow dust off the lens. Others say it’s worth wrapping a credit card in soft cotton cloth, applying some denatured alcohol to the cloth, and swiping the cloth-covered card in and out of the drive slot a few times.

Still others recommend that in order to do the job right you open the Mac, extract the drive, and clean the lens with a Q-tip and denatured alcohol (iFixit can show you how to open your MacBook and remove its media drive). If nothing you try works, it’s time to look at a replacement drive. An internal replacement drive will set you back around $100 and requires that you remove the old drive and install the new one (again, iFixit will show you how). If you don’t require the convenience of an internal drive, you can purchase a compatible external USB drive for around 30 bucks. Create a bootable Lion install drive for newer Macs Subscribe to the Best of Macworld Newsletter So you got yourself a fancy smancy DVD drive. It could be a burner or just a reader and it is just not working. How do you figure out what is wrong with it? These tips to fix dvd drive errors will also work for a CD or CDR drive. The first thing we need to do is determine where the issue is. It can either be a physical issue like power not getting to the drive or a IDE / SATA cable has come unplugged.

It could be a Windows operating system problem that is preventing your drive from showing up or reading disks and finally it could be that disk is garbage. You might have a scratched up dirty disk and it is unreadable by your player. Let’s see how we can identify and resolve these issues. I see issues with drives on a daily basis in my day job as well as hundreds of questions coming in through my blog. Let me share some of my troubleshooting tips with you. Maybe it will stop the questions – but I doubt it! These instructions can be used for both internal and external drives but some of the fundamentals might be a little different. Like the power cord versus the internal power connector, the USB interface or a IDE connector. But use your intuition to guide you. Some of these problems are common both to the external and internal drive and can be fixed with a little application or by following the tutorials that come with these drives. Step one: Is the drive not showing up in Windows Explorer?

Here I can see my CD burner but not my DVD burner. My DVD burner is usually drive E:\. First things first, we should check the power and connections to your computer.External drives can be checked while the system is powered on but internal drives will need you to shutdown the system and remove the power cord before beginning. If the cables are connected but loose pull them free and reconnect them.  Start the system back up and see if the drive or drives are showing up. If you have recently modified your drives in your system and have removed or changed jumper settings remember cable select is normally the best way to go. If you are on an external drive these jumpers will not matter. When the system is on and the drive is getting power you can push the eject button and it will open. If it does not open and it is powered on it can be a physical issue which we will see below. Step two: If your drive is getting power and will not open or close, it is time for the paper clip trick.

Sometimes these drives get stuck closed and you cannot open them. This can be from someone spilling something or using the drive as a cup holder. Go get a paper clip and straighten it out. Ladies and gentleman we will perform this amazing feat of opening a stuck drive with a paper clip and only a paper clip. Push the paper clip into the small hole located on the right, left or slightly to the right of the left hand side in the older drive above. Pushing the paper clip in the hole releases the door and you can open it with your hands. If it is sticky use a damp cloth to clean it. Step three: Your drive is opening and closing and it still doesn’t work? We need to check that the drive is connected to the computer. Just as you checked the power, check the connectors. See if the drive now shows up in your computer. Step four: You have ruled out power and system connections. Now let us look at the device manager in Windows. Open it by right-clicking on My Computer and selecting manage.

Then select Device Manager. On older machines it will be in the system properties and then device manager.  If there is a red exclamation point next to one of the items, resolve it and your problems will go away. The drive should appear like this: A device with an error will have this icon before it: Step five: If your drive has power and your Windows operating system recognizes it but still it does not read the discs it may be because of a dirty laser lens in the drive. Clean the laser lens with a cleaning kit or run some other discs after the cleaning kit and then try. If the drive works after cleaning it you have found your issue. Step six: If the drive still is not reading your disk but it is connected and the system sees it, try another disk. If this other disk works it can be the disk. Some older drives cannot read CDR’s or CDRW’s. Try a purchased CD  and see if that works. If so you should probably replace your drive. Got any other tips for fixing DVD Drive errors share them with us in the comments!