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Sep 28, 2011 6:33 PM in response to Walter Liebermanby Allan Jones,Before resorting to extreme measures, get a drive cleaning disk. They are usualy US$5 - 15 and are available at most electronics stores and office supply centers that carry computer gear.
Slot-load drives get dirty on desktops and filthy on notebooks, so there is a good chance that a simple cleaning will restore function. Much cheaper than a new drive.
A friend's Mac notebook started having trouble with the optical drive and the local Apple ASP told him the drive was bad and would cost US$140 parts and labor to replace. I loaned him my cleaning disk and the drive is again at 100 percent function.
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Sep 29, 2011 6:41 AM in response to Walter Liebermanby Texas Mac Man,This worked for some users with the same problem.
1. Open Disk Utilites
2. Click on your Hard drive/partition
3. Click on the *Repair Disk Permissions* button
Cheers, Tom
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Oct 1, 2011 4:42 PM in response to Texas Mac Manby Walter Lieberman,Dear Friends,
Thanks for your suggestions, I tried them all to no avail. It still ejects almost all disks (I did get it to take the cleaning disk). I also tried a variety of other far out suggestions, change languages, hold it upside down, trash dvd preferences, etc. Could it be the firmware? I looked all over to find firmware for my drive UJ-845E( mATSHITA) no luck.
Lots of people seem to have similar problems.
Any other ideas? Thanks