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My MacBook Pro has OS X 10.5.8
When I put in the original install disks they eject within seconds.

Any suggestion?

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Clean the disc's of any dirt/dust etc

Do you have trouble with any other disc ie: Music CD, Movie DVD ??

If so you could very well have a broken SuperDrive
 
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Other Trouble:

• commercial DVD's simply eject - however one commercial DVD did play
• most all commercial CD's played
• most CD's I burned did not - they show: select disk or image.

Crazy eh?

I have another question. Perhaps you can help.
I unintentionally deleted garage band. Of course my install disks not working so
cannot download from them. I am not sure how to install it from online. Any thoughts?

Thanks so much for your help!
 

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Sounds like lens is just dirty.

Try taking a can of compressed air - and with your machine turned off - shoot about 3 quick bursts in different directions into the slot of the drive.
 

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Radioshack (The Shack these days :) ) used to carry a lens cleaner that was essentially a CD with a small brush on it that you could insert..if the compressed air doesn't do the trick, then this might be something to try.

cd-vcd-dvd-lens-cleaner-for-computer-cd-rom-clean_wunnfm1353649167648.jpg
 

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I don't - without getting your drive working.
 

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