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[OT] fixing bad cdrom drives



Hi!
I wanted to share this piece of information with you, it might become handy 
at a time.
If you happen to have an old cdrom drive, and sometimes even new ones, 
which refuses to read cds, there's a way to fix it. The problem is just the 
laser eye is dirty. Now, all the cleaning-cds doesn't really work, but the 
concept is right. What you have to do is physically open the drive and 
disassemble it carefully, remembering where each part go. When you reach to 
the laser eye, take a soft cloth and wipe it gently. This should do the 
trick. Close the cd-rom and test it, in most cases this will fix the 
problem, if not... just throw it to the garbage.


Noam Meltzer


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