[muglo] Re: Drive Rejects CD

  • From: Chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:33:56 -0400

Bob
If you choose to go the replacement drive route and don't feel comfortable 
doing the teardown & replacement yourself, I could do the job for you. I've 
replaced the hard drive and the LCD on my 17" MBP and am quite comfortable 
around the innards. Let me know. 

-- 
Chris 



On 2011-10-16, at 5:31 PM, Wayne Dobson <pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you use the drive sparingly and want to avoid a large repair bill, 
> consider picking up an external USB burner from Tigerdirect for around $40. 
> As you can see from my screenshot, I did just that after my drive went in my 
> eMac. Although cheap to replace, the drive is really buried in the innards 
> and requires a major teardown.
> 
> On Oct 16, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Bob McDaniel wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Wayne.  After following these instructions, and no burn speeds 
>> appearing, I've concluded the optical drive needs fixing. Even before 
>> bringing up "System Profiler" the blank CD was being ejected instead of 
>> launching Toast Titanium.
>> 
>> I did, however, install Readiris on the MacBook Pro by copying the install 
>> files from the CD to my eMac and transferring them to the MBP via my 
>> network. Works great.
>> 
>> Bob
> 
> Wayne Dobson
> G4 eMac, 1.42 GHz
> 2 GHz RAM,Leopard,
> Mail, Safari
> 
> 
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