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Resurrect your PS2, XBOX, or PC DVD or CD drives
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DVD, DVD-R, CD-R, and CD Drives will fail its only a matter of time, each drive has a predetermined amount of reads and writes engineered by the manufacturer. Whether it is a Playstation (PS1, PS2, or PS3), an XBox 360 or regular XBox, your PC’s DVD drive, your DVD Player, or even car stereo CD player each one of these devices will eventually error out and stop working. There are several reasons from weak lasers to laser tracking being off for a optical drive to fail. Many burners and Playstations have been tossed for not working because the drive appears to go bad.
There is one more popular reason that drives fail and it is one that is fixable, its dust. Yes regular old dust can get sucked in from regular air circulation or forced in by PC or Playstation fans. The simple fix is to buy a CD/DVD laser lens cleaner. If you can read a audio CD at all this CD will clean the laser lens of any of that troublesome dust. If you are unable to get an audio CD to start try firing a little compressed air with the drive door open (Be sure not to spray compressed air upside down when spraying in there as you can cause more damage). The little bit of air you spray in there may dislodge enough dust to get a read from the audio CD. Sometimes changing the way a drive sits can help you get a decent read also. I have heard of people setting their PC or Playstations on their side to get the drive to read.
Not every drive can be resurrected this way, but if you have a dead PC drive, Xbox, or Playstation drive it cannot hurt to try. I was able to resurrect a PS2 a couple of weekends ago this way. If you burn quite a few DVD-Rs or CD-Rs like I do you may be interested in this article that lists off the most reliable drives make. In any event dust and contamination will likely end your optical drive’s life early and like changing the oil on your car I prefer to keep my equipment clean with regular maintenance.
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