Clean CD players/burners?

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From: Ed H (w.whatkey_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 07:52:03 -0400

Are CD players/ burners supposed to be cleaned? How? I've been having
trouble with copying and restoring from data CD's. I frequently get errors
and I have tried different copying/burning scenarios. Just yesterday I was
trying to restore an image to a partition, I've installed this CD before
with no problem but during installation I received an error message 'file
can not be read.' I do not see any obvious damage to the CD, I've lost faith
in optical media as a back up. All Suggestions will be welcome, thank you. 

-- 
Ed H
Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Professional SP2
60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

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