Hi Duncan,
Seasons complements,
On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:54:08 DSinc wrote:
> Turns out that my present "cleaner CD" plays fine in W2K. It plays
> oddly in XP.
>
> Still wish to "clean" my optical drives.
> Best,
> Duncan
Actually the OS doesn't matter ! When you put a disc in the drive it
automatically does a spin and seek routine. So each time you place the
cleaning CD in the drive and close the tray it will spin the disc and
clean the top lense.
Often trying to keep the top lense clean doesn't help because the
mirrors underneath the lens get contaminated with dirt, dust etc ! No
matter what you do, you can't get at those to clean them. Even if you
could, its quite probable that you would damage the microscopically
thin layers that coat them.
Realistically for the sake of $15-20 a replacement drive is a better
bet !
The real answer is not to allow the fans in the machine to suck dirty
air through the drive at all. Though modern drives are much better at
sealing the tray when its closed.
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Running Open SuSE 11.1 KDE 3.5.10 Desktop.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug @ play-net.co.uk
