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Nov 7, 2010 10:45 AM in response to itspazby idnapper,Credit card wrapped in iPhone cleaning cloth. Insert several times over length of slotloader of MBP. That is all. -
Dec 17, 2010 11:49 AM in response to itspazby Normth,Compressed air worked for the "cannot calibrate laser" error on my MBP.
But only when I used the little straw and stuck it in the slot.
Thanks to all who posted this solution. -
Dec 19, 2010 7:36 AM in response to itspazby jillmill,Thanks so much for the compressed air idea. Worked like a charm. -
Dec 28, 2010 4:45 PM in response to idnapperby JimHKuo,idnapper's idea worked for me, excellent, thanks! -
Jan 7, 2011 12:28 AM in response to itspazby Nymrael,MacBook Pro Mid 2009 and this morning I wanted to burn a DVD (no movie, just a family video)
and I got this: "The disc can’t be burned, because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media."
After some swearing I googled it, got the 2nd result and came here only to try the above mentioned credit card wrapped with iPhone/screen/glasses cleaner and worked like a charm.
High tech solutions!
Thanks idnapper! -
Jan 20, 2011 5:11 PM in response to Nymraelby xcom97,Compressed can O Air worked! .... must be dusty in there.... O.o?! -
Feb 12, 2011 1:57 PM in response to itspazby mackoroni,Woohoo! Had the same problem with Snow Leopard install disk on my macbook pro but not with my imac, came here and read about the compressed air and it also worked for me Two good shots of air and the disk was readable.
Thanks for sharing a great solution. I was worried I'd have to replace my super drive. -
Feb 18, 2011 6:52 PM in response to itspazby smalldog,My MacPro just started doing this tonight. It's about 4 years old and is running on Snow Leopard. All software is up to date.
Getting the same error message, but, a CD work, and a DL DVD worked. I have some printed DVDs that I bought from WTS Media, and I'm about halfway through an order of 300 and suddenly they're not. I thought it might be the media, but it works on my laptop (MacBook Pro).
Have NO idea what to do. I've tried the compressed air a couple of times, but I'll try it again. The discrepancies between what will work on one computer but not the other has me baffled. -
Feb 19, 2011 6:36 PM in response to smalldogby smalldog,tried the compressed air at least 5 times. nothing. tried 3 different brands of DVD lens cleaning kits. nothing.
did the language thing, restarted, and voila. works.
I burn a lot of DVDs for clients, so this is great news. I read earlier in this thread to not burn at maximum speed if you burn a lot, because it wears the lasers down faster. don't know if that's the case, but i'm not going to take any chances.
thanks for all of the replies and suggestions. truly.
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Feb 19, 2011 6:39 PM in response to smalldogby smalldog,oh, one more thing: don't look at it while it's burning. -
Mar 2, 2011 6:52 AM in response to itspazby monkeynev,Wow! Compressed air - thank you so much! I was beginning to get worried that I'd have to spend a lot of money on some repairs! -
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Mar 15, 2011 12:15 PM in response to itspazby t228,I'm planning to go out and buy a can of compressed air this afternoon (hoping it works!), but can someone tell me why burning works fine when I switch over to the Windows partition on Bootcamp? It's the same hardware. Makes me a little less optimistic that the compressed air will work for me.
Will try it, though, and post back my results. -
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Apr 12, 2011 7:07 AM in response to parkerpressby Claire Marshall1,Didn't have compressed air so just puckered up and blew. Dust flew out of the fan slot and tada! it works...