I am working on a Compaq Evo 510 Ultra Slim that uses a laptop plug
in CD drive . It isn't working right. It appears normally and when I
tried to insert a factory data CD = Logitech drivers, the CD started
spinning up, Windows appeared to try and load it but when I went to
access the CD Windows reported <insert a disk>.
There is nothing wrong with the CD, I have tried the CD in other
computers and it works fine. And this drive had the same problem with
multiple CDs.
The first thing I did was to pull it out, open it up and blow off the
lens with a blast of air. This helped, now when I put a CD in it
knows it has a disk, but every disk is seen as a audio disk with a
single track, that of course doesn't play because it isn't a audio
disk. Maybe the lens is still dirty, what is the best way to clean
it... with a brush and 99% alcohol , or a qtip and alcohol, or what?
Normally I would just change the drive, but this in a proprietary
drive, I can't get a normal one in there. This thing is set up with
six USB2 ports so an external burner would be perfect, but the native
one is going to be more convenient for this owner.
Any other ideas or tricks to fix it... these things are too expensive
to replace. Anybody have one in their junk pile they want to sell?
model 217396-630 / Compaq Spare 100044-001
thanks
