My macbook pro cd drive reads only the snow leopard official disk and nothing else, the rest he sees as blanks or doesn't see at all...what can i do?

Question

Hello,
i have tried the cd cleaners. it worked once but now it doesn't...i have tryed all kinds of cds but the only one my optical drive seams to recognize is an old snow leopard cd i had. that makes me think it might be some software problem because that cd he reads perfectly every time. the dvds+r and cds he sees as blank and the dvds-r he simply ejects.
if you have any ideas i'm all ears.
10x

Answer 1

Hi K,
The fact that cleaning worked once still suggests a dirty lens. Try this alternate cleaning method: Use a credit card, or something similar, and wrap it with an LCD cleaning cloth type product (basically a thin micro-fiber type cloth). Gently slide the "cleaner" in and out a few times in the left side of the optical drive opening. Make sure you can hold onto the cloth so it doesn't get stuck inside the drive. This cleans the lens, which may be all you need.