Dear all,
I wondered if any of you could help me - I've read a number of different articles around the internet with people who have had a seemingly similar problem to me, but I cannot get any of their solutions to fix mine.
I have a MacBook (purchased in early 2009), and yesterday the disk drive stopped working.
On attempting to push a CD into it, it is physically stiff and doesn't want to go in, with a put of pushing it goes further, and the automatic mechanism tries to suck it in (or at least makes a noise), but nothing happens. On closer examination, it would appear that something is catching the disks around the middle of the entrance of the superdrive which is preventing them from simply gliding in as they used to. I'm unsure whether its something broken, or perhaps a locking mechanism that has somehow got stuck.
I have tried all the obvious things, restarting and holding down the mouse, resetting the PRAM and SMC, to no avail.
I don't imagine that anyone has a fix for this as its probably a physical problem, but I thought I'd try as I am not currently near an Apple shop and I don't particularly want to be without my computer for too long, so I'd rather attempt to find a fix myself before taking any more action.
Thanks,
Mark
I wondered if any of you could help me - I've read a number of different articles around the internet with people who have had a seemingly similar problem to me, but I cannot get any of their solutions to fix mine.
I have a MacBook (purchased in early 2009), and yesterday the disk drive stopped working.
On attempting to push a CD into it, it is physically stiff and doesn't want to go in, with a put of pushing it goes further, and the automatic mechanism tries to suck it in (or at least makes a noise), but nothing happens. On closer examination, it would appear that something is catching the disks around the middle of the entrance of the superdrive which is preventing them from simply gliding in as they used to. I'm unsure whether its something broken, or perhaps a locking mechanism that has somehow got stuck.
I have tried all the obvious things, restarting and holding down the mouse, resetting the PRAM and SMC, to no avail.
I don't imagine that anyone has a fix for this as its probably a physical problem, but I thought I'd try as I am not currently near an Apple shop and I don't particularly want to be without my computer for too long, so I'd rather attempt to find a fix myself before taking any more action.
Thanks,
Mark