Trouble with optical drive in MBP

[Carlis]

Hi

I tried to install windows on my mbp to play some blood bowl. Now, when I insert my old xp disc, it is recognized as an empty recordable cd. The same goes for my win 7. Now, inserting them in my G5 they work fine. ALso, the mbp CAN read my osx install disk. So the question is, whats going on? Is the drive on mbp just generally crappy and will only read some disks? Should I just buy an external disk for 50$ and plug in? I was looking forward to eating some hotdogs and play BB dammit...

 

[TheStu]

Any chance that your Windows disks are copies? Can you put the ISO onto the MBP and burn off a new copy (download burn.app, just google it) and would that work?

Finally, are you using Boot Camp Assistant for this operation?

 

[Carlis]

One of them is a copy, the other is not. But it seems to me something is wrong when you cant read a bought DVD...

Perhaps I should try burning the image again... Also, the drive on my mbp refuses to burn anything, but I have my G5 ...

 

[manly]

Slot loading drives are notoriously finicky after a while, I suspect that the lens gets dirty. A while back, I was having some issues with my SuperDrive but after blasting at it with compressed air it seemed to recover. External USB drives are often < $30 if you decide to buy one.