Superdrive Help Please!

[KettyKrueger]

I've using my Superdrive a lot recently for various reasons. Yesterday it stopped performing as it should.

Here's the deal; it reads music CDs fine, makes a weird grinding noise when I insert a DVD then ejects it and when I inserted the Tiger Restore Discs it tried to spin but was unsuccessful and eventually ejected it. I also tried a blank DVD but it spat it straight back out.

Any ideas?

For info; the DVD's are commercial movie discs, the Cd's were commercially bought music CDs and obviously the Tiger restore DVD was an original.

I have the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846 drive.

Thanks.

[AlexisV]

Can you get any DVD to read at all?

I had a DVD drive that broke on my old PC - it could read CDs no problem, but couldn't deal with DVDs. They have two lasers inside I think.

[KettyKrueger]

Nope, although it read one [movie dvd] yesterday but it won't the same disc now.

Do you think it's worth buying a cleaning disc?

I still have a few months left with my John Lewis warranty so might just take it in there.

It's damn annoying!

[JAT]

Cleaning discs are a last resort. I would never use one unless it was a drive I thought was dead. So a Maybe in your situation.

But wait! It's under warranty? Question answered: take it in.