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"Making things much harder to be repaired..." But it still made for a great video. Your slow but building frustration with the unit is a feeling that I could relate with.

Thank you random internet guy with an accent. You're a lifesaver. My media collection is primarily blue ray. And i prefer an HTPC to a dedicated player, which is why i still have an optical drive in 2022.

The final technique , worked for me , I'm glad that i was able to fix my bluray drive

You make amazing content aimed at helping people, sharing knowledge and helping the environment, that's amazing these days. I have this exact same optical drive and apparently it died from the diode as well. It's absurd that corporations don't worry about the damage that planned obsolescence causes, all they want is to cut costs, it's a huge lack of respect. Your phrase about technology evolving in the wrong direction is correct, that's exactly what it is about. Thank you very much friend for taking the time to share high level knowledge, excellent research work.

Thanks for this guide. My DVD rewriter stopped reading disks with read errors. Took it apart using your guide and cleaned the lens with some alcohol. The lens didn't look dirty, so didn't hold out much hope. However, it seems to have brought it back to life. Fingers crossed it lasts.

Thanks to your guide I was able to fix mine, it works wonderfully. thank you

You are the man!!😎😎 Tried your steps and it is fixed! Not sure how long it's gonna last..

Hello friend, I am in a similar situation with a Toshiba/Samsung SH-216 DVD and CD read write optical disc drive (ODD) very similar to the unit you attempted to repair. At first, I was disappointed that you could not find the root cause of the problem. I learned several things, how to remove the front door, thanks. I learned how to release the retaining mechanism from ribbon cables.You are a patient man. I learned how to remove and reuse the spinning magnet which holds the disc in place. I'm sure there are several more things that I haven't given you credit for. Good luck in your future repairs.Thanks !!

Thank you Sir. Kind of you to share the valuable experience and help others. Best wishes.

Thanks for telling not to look into laser and video was helpful 😁

i tried to clean the lens with some alcohol and it did works thanks a lot!!!

Happy new year maestro.

Really helpful !

Wonderful , thank you.

I was trying to get an older dvdrom to read a movie disc and found it almost impossible to get the cover off to expose the lens and clean it manually. I had a thought: Instead of giving up I used my portable air tank and a an air nozzle on a hose and , with the tray open, I blew two good blasts of air into the interior of the reader. I came back inside and stuck the movie disc in this machine, and guess what! It immediately brought the movie up and started to play it. I had spent over an hour or more trying to get it apart to manually clean the lens--and with the air tank it took about 3 minutes! This might be a good first step in checking non-reading DVD or CD Roms BEFORE one spends hours trying to disassemble them, and takes a chance on breaking something in the process.

Thanks for the tips :)

Thanx for posting, i have a dvr that will not read discs, i will open her up and see if i can repair!

Thanks for your efforts in putting this video together. I have a Panasonic DMR-EH59, a stand alone DVD recorder w/ built-in HDD. It wouldn't read disc's that were recorded or recognize blank disc's to write. Cleaning the lens on laser has seemed to solve the problem but while inside the DVD section, I noticed the one rail appears to have no lube on it. What specifically is that grease/ lube you are using? It said 'Vaselina' on your container. Looks like a lithium or silicone based sort of grease? I appreciate your help. Thanks much..

Fab video, thank you

Great job

Awesome impressive great job!~

Perfect thank :)

Gonna try some of this. IF it doesnt work, nothing lost. its still dead. If it does..... :) Lots of old games on disk that i still love. Sure. I could buy a drive for 20 USD.... but thats money i could put to better use. Thanks for this. Our grandparents used to fix their own stuff. Heck. Our dads used to fix stuff. Past the 80's tho.....stuff just nearly went unfixable. Cars are a total loss. You can change the oil. Maybe the plugs. The lights are tough sometimes but doable. Anything serious? Lots of times... nope. Not even a simple alternator swap. Forget a timing belt/chain or water pump.

It was the little motor that moves the laser (bad 1st position calibration moves. This motor gets weak over time). A lot of SH-222 and SH-222BB died by this. Just a general issue with this model.

Great video, thank you for this content, can I ask: is that Vaseline you are using to grease (Petroleum Jelly)?

Thaaank youu ♥️♥️

thank you very much

Great content! İ have an Akai cd3000 sampler with old scsi drive in it that i want to rescue. Fingers crossed :). Ps Are you from Poland maybe? ;)

These Samsung Writemaster and Super Writemaster units are horrible. I got a bunch of old computers and found 4 of those with the same problem as yours: it only reads CDs, not DVDs. Only one of these are working. Meanwhile, all the drives from other brands are working perfectly, except for a really old one from LG.

Magic

i have exactly the same problem, i have an old disc from my daughters nursery days, i tried to copy it onto pc but dvd rom not working, will try your steps, just wanted to say another wonderful video, what is that white plastic grease called

What is the name of the grease that you use in the video? Thank you

Good

I need help. I saw your laser emit red but mine doesn't. I tried using camera to see the infrared and there's nothing. The problem is that the drive wasn't able to detect a dvd.

Welcome I have a similar one and I don't know why? Did you fix it?

That accent strangely enough makes me want to keep watching.

Why i use dvd in 2022? Because i live in iran Edit: i fixed my dvd drive by cleaning lense. Thank you for toturial

at 22:42 (worked) you can see the red laser light through the disc. at 23:45 (did not work) we do not see the laser light. i have the exact same symptom on a drive here. still haven’t figured it out. however, this was a clue i found. occasionally the drive works. each time it did, it was because the laser was lit up (and stayed on). each time it failed to to work, the laser was off or only flickered on for a split second. If anyone else seeing this might know the answer to this mystery, please let me know. :)

What is the name or type of grease please?

Hey my dvd writer doesnt have any screws on them. How do i open it?

Nothing worked for me either😞

I won’t buy a computer anymore that isn’t Apple because a few years ago My perfectly good laptop screen went black, dvd drive locked, Wi-Fi key red, cap lock key flashing blue. All that happened because updates were installed. Updated to windows 10 and soon after other updates tore my computer up.

I have same bd rewriter...and he burn olny rw bd disc, other disc dont burn (write)

I thought you were supposed to repair this DVD player!? Not tear it apart 😅😂

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Thank you for this video