DVD-rom Scratch my Snow Leopard Disc
Hi All,
my early 08 mbp dvd rom put alot of scratch on my new snow leopard install disc.
although the installation went through smoothly.
I do heard that it was trying alittle hard to read the disc.
In the end i found lot of scratch.
Does anyone experience this before?
maybe a bad dvd rom lens?
Anyhow, I will still contact applecare for this.
Would pleasure if anyone here have similar problem with your dvd rom
please share your story.
Hi everybody,
I'm a new switcher and for that purpose, I bought a beautyfull MBP 2.8 recently (mid 2009).
Beginning with 10.5.8, and of course upgrade to 10.6.
When I was trying to do a clean install yesterday, I was surprised when the SL DVD was not able to mount, with a systematic auto-ejection, and more important, was not able to dvd-boot!
After that I tried with my 10.5.7 DVD installer, for the same result!
After some time, I looked the DVD's and I finally understood the reason: there are a lot of perfects circular scratches on all the DVD'S surface!(not one, but hundreds!)
I have to admit that my superdrive is more a super scratcher than anything else!
Let's go to my reseller now, with a big smile as you can imagine...
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