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Calibrating laser power level?

I have an error message when trying to burn photos from iphoto to CD.

It says: The disc can't be burned because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.

I have a Mac Book Pro (bought in Dec.'07) Upgraded to Lion in Fall of 2011.

Anyone know what I should do?

Thanks,

Frustrated trying to back up too many photos!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Jan 14, 2012 12:31 PM

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Posted on Jan 14, 2012 12:34 PM

Try a "drive celaning system" -- much less expensive than a new drive and at BestBuy/Walmart/etc. It contains a disk that a "cleaning solution" is loaded onto. Could be that the internal lenses are clouded.


Or it coud be a dying optical drive.


I would try the cleaning kit frst.

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Jan 14, 2012 4:03 PM in response to sdavisfwin

When I got that error message, I was baffled. The problem turned out to be the discs.


It seems there are severl different SPEED ranges for discs, and the newext 8x discs would not work AT ALL in my 2.4x burner. But the messahe was not helpful, and it was only an obscure online item I fould that led me to the solution.


Check the speed specs on your drive, and the specs on the discs.

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