Re: Clean CD players/burners?

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From: Sandman (peterf41_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:21:15 -0400

Best advice I have gleaned from reading on the Web sez, DO NOT use those
'optical disc cleaner CDs' that claim to wipe the lens with a tiny brush.. I
personally use the air duster cannisters to squirt plain old air into the
drive, being careful not to shove the nozzle too far into the drive. This
should remove most dust.. If your burner is older than say several years old
and you have not done this, it may be beyond that kind of cleaning.
The very worst thing for optical drives (and everything else inside your
case) is cigaret smoke (if you smoke) as this forms heavy residue on
everything over time, that can't be removed by blowing a jet of air inside
the caase or the drives. It also could be a bad disc.
"Ed H" <w.whatkey@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:eqaxt5DiEHA.1652@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> 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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