Lens cleaners
Cleaning your CD/DVD drives
Your VCR, tape player, CD and DVD drives or CD / DVD require some little maintenance from time to time.
CD and DVD drives players are prone to all kinds of dirt, hair, dust and other contaminants from the air , which settles down on the laser lens and interfere with the laser transfer process.
Note that a disk drive not airtight. Each time you open it to insert a disc, the laser lens is exposed to air contaminants, and the static electricity attracts dirt in the drive and the laser lens.
There are commercial CD cleaners, with small brushes to clean the laser lens surface, and this process takes only a short time and will increase the lifespan of your drive.
Sometimes you think your drive is down and get an error message such as:
"insert a cd in your drive" or "Windows can not run this program", etc ...
Just use a lens cleaner to clean out this mess, they can be found in supermarkets, internet and computer stores.