dvd and CD drive not working it will not accept any disc

salsabella wrote:

None of the above are working for me. I tried every single one.

You contacted Apple Support or your local AASP and made a service appointment....?

mattcurtis777 - this absolutely worked for me as well. I reset the SMC, the PRAM and the NVRAM and to no avail. I then took a baby wipe, cut it in half, put it around a credit card, stuck it in probably a little further than 3 cm, moved it around for a while, some crud came out. I then inserted a blank DVD (my goal) and what do you know - it recognized it and didn't eject it like it had been doing. Thanks! So net-net folks - start with this approach first.

After months of my disk drive not working, I just tried your trick and it works perfectly! Thank you so much!!

No Way!

Thanks mattcurtis777, I must this minute used my Nectar card, and it worked, simple is often best.

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I'm so happy I found this topic! Matt, you are a genius! Worked for me too! Thank you so much! I have a 2008 MacBook Pro and I haven't been able to watch DVD's for years, always got frustrated after the drive ejected almost every time. Sometimes on the 10th try it would work, but I hardly had that much patience to mess with it. God bless you!

Matt, thanks! My drive has not worked for the longest time, and I was really sad about that. Today I read your post, and I wrapped a lens cloth in a business card and went to work... you are right, unbelievable amount of dust! And once I got enough dust out, I tried putting a CD in, and recognized it right away! I can't believe how happy I am over a stupid CD-ROM drive.... My life must be filled with first world problems...

It took several tries, but this eventually worked for me, too! At first I tried with my driver's license and a lens cloth, but that didn't work. Then I went to baby wipes, and after four or five attempts, voila! My CD drive is back in action.

Thank you so much Matt!! This is the first time my cd/dvd player has worked in years! The card trick really worked. It didn't work right away. I worked on it for about 30 minutes before it would accept my cc's. I found that for me it wouldn't work until I used the baby wipes to moisten the inside. THEN the cloth was able to pull all the junk out. To all who also have this problem- just be persistent!

Had a Mac Pro CD player not working for 2 years, tried all the usual, nothing.

Then I did as you described (didn't have Tesco, used Hughes & Hughes Bookseller's card) and now CD plays fine.

Couldn't believe it, after months of frustration, had imagined it was a major problem.

Thanks!!

go to the apple symbol at the top left select "about this mac" then hit the "storage" tab when this screen is up place the disk in all the way it should take the disk.

This is a work around I have use now on 3 Apple's an iMac a Mac Mini and Macbook pro seems to be an issue across the board.

Cheers Patrick

Mine too! Thanks, mattcurtis777!

thankyou so much! :')

Thank you Matt!!! It also work for me! I was stressing because I wanted to load some old CD into iTunes. Tks!!!!!

Yup! Matt's the man. I tried this after trying the NRAM and PRAM reboot, and the simply trick of cleaning it worked for me. Although no dirt came out, but who cares, the drive works!! Yay Matt!

I was extremely skeptical of Matt's method at first, and was sure I was going to end up in the Apple store with an even more busted drive because of it, but I'm amazed to say that the credit card/baby wipe method actually works.