Still others recommend that in order to do the job right you open the Mac, extract the drive, and clean the lens with a Q-tip and denatured alcohol ( iFixit can show you how to open your MacBook and remove its media drive). Others say it’s worth wrapping a credit card in soft cotton cloth, applying some denatured alcohol to the cloth, and swiping the cloth-covered card in and out of the drive slot a few times. Some people have also had success using a can of compressed air to blow dust off the lens. You can purchase drive cleaning kits that are intended to brush away crud from a drive’s lens. If the Mac is out of warranty you can try fixing it yourself provided that the problem is related to a gunked-up lens.
The company isn’t shy about replacing these drives when they exhibit such behavior.
If your MacBook is still under warranty or you have AppleCare for it, put it in Apple’s hands. More likely, the drive’s lens is dirty or the drive is simply broken (or nearly so). Some have suggested that it can be fixed by reinstalling the Mac OS or zapping the computer’s PRAM (start up the Mac and hold down Command-Option-P-R until you hear two startup tones, then let go of the keys and allow the Mac to start up normally). This isn’t an entirely unusual problem-Apple’s discussion forums have several threads devoted to the topic. For example, in iTunes I can rip two CDs in a four-disc set but the other two discs are ejected shortly after I insert them. Sometimes it loads them, other times, not.
My MacBook’s internal CD/DVD drive reads DVDs just fine. Run that file from the thumb drive on the PC you want to use your Apple MacBook Air Superdrive. Copy/Paste to a thumb drive the file AppleODDInstaller.exe located at \Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple if you have Windows 32 bit or \Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple\圆4 if you have the 64 bit version. Reader Ned Mitchell find his MacBook’s media drive is a little picky about the discs he inserts. Insert it on any PC with a DVD-ROM drive.
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