How can I tell if my notebook’s CD drive needs replacing?
The drive has power and I can hear it spin after putting in a disc. The drive appears in the “My Computer” screen but the disc and its’ contents do not. If I open the drive’s folder (by double clicking on the drive icon), it appears empty.
It is a Sony PCG-FR130 with a 2000+ Athlon, 40 GB HDD, and a CD-R/DVD ROM drive.
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the lens that reads the disc probably needs cleaning, it has happened to me.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/21/the_mother_of_all_cpu_charts_2005/page24.html
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To me it seems like your cd drive’s lens is either dirty or broken. Have you tried to clean the lens using a cd drive cleaner ( cd kind)?
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/21/the_mother_of_all_cpu_charts_2005/page24.html
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