Q: Crunching noise from the optical drive

Whenever I try to insert a CD into the disk drive, I get the noise from sample-1 under the "Inserting a disk" section from the Apple support link Mac notebooks with optical drives: Noises from the optical drive - Apple Support

I can't find anything on how to fix this yet so I'm hoping somebody here can help. I bought this macbook secondhand off of somebody on craigslist almost a year ago so I have no way to contact them anymore. I've only used this computer as a backup so I've never known this problem existed before now.

Any thoughts?

Edit: The CDs won't play and ejects after about 30 seconds of making that crunching noise without showing up anywhere on my drives.

MacBook, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), null

Posted on Dec 22, 2014 9:42 PM

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kaz-k Dec 23, 2014 3:59 AM in response to aiverson
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Dec 23, 2014 3:59 AM in response to aiverson

Try cleaning pick up lens with DVD drive cleaner.
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by Mike Sombrio,

Mike Sombrio Dec 23, 2014 3:59 AM in response to aiverson
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Dec 23, 2014 3:59 AM in response to aiverson

If your optical drive is making a crunching noise it's probably a goner. You can replace it yourself using the guides at iFixIt https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Mac
Or better yet replace it with and SSD for lightning fast performance and get a USB external optical drive.
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