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 > > > > > --- > Manage your account options at //www.freelists.org/list/muglo --- Manage your account options at //www.freelists.org/list/muglo