My MacBook Pro SuperDrive stopped reading and writing discs. Well, 1 out of 50 would work but most often I would get something like “Unable to calibrate laser power for selected media”. After few minutes of browsing, I figured there are two solutions:
1. Disassemble both MacBook and SuperDrive (oh, you wouldn’t want to do that) and clean it with q-tips. And then hope you’ll assemble it back.
2. Use compressed air can to blow the dust off the laser.
I didn’t have time to use the first approach (and yes – I didn’t want to take my chances), but I did not have a can of compressed air either..
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