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My friend found that following this procedure (minus step 4) completely fixed the SuperDrive in the MacBook Pro that had not worked in almost four years.

Pull the credit card out and insert again - repeat four to five times - add some more cleaning fluid if it evaporates.

Insert the cloth-wrapped credit card on the left-most side of the slot drive by about 1.5 inches.

Dab some lens cleaning fluid on the bottom side of the cloth-wrapped card.

Wrap the cloth around the credit card lengthwise and hold it taught between your thumb and forefinger at one end.

Cut a strip of fine, lint-free cotton cloth as wide as the credit card and twice its length.

I've also marked the step he did not follow: You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. To my utter shock, my friend called me up the next day saying the SuperDrive was as good as new. I came across this thread on Apple's support communities and had my friend follow it to the letter - minus one step.

But for some reason that night I decided to do a Google search on the best ways to clean your optical drive. He asked me if I tried everything to clean the drive. I warned him the SuperDrive didn't work and if he wanted a working one, he'd need to pay to replace it. Last month I gave the MacBook to a friend. Nothing worked, so I just assumed the drive was dead. I didn't really care that my SuperDrive seemed to be bust as I had no use for it, but over the next year, I would occasionally attempt to get it working by running various CD cleaner products on it and blowing inside the drive. Matter of fact, it ejected every subsequent DVD and CD we put in. We inserted the disc, only to have the SuperDrive spit it right back out. But in 2011, a friend's kid wanted to watch a DVD on my laptop during a trip. I can't remember the last time there was anything I needed to read or load from a CD. Fortunately, there’s a workaround more convenient that purchasing an external DVD drive and a 5-pack of double-sided writeable DVD media.I rarely used the SuperDrive in my 2009 MacBook Pro. While it’s true that SuperDrives are becoming less necessary for many people, there are occasions when a built-in drive is a godsend. I’m afraid you’re another casualty of the who-needs-media-drives-any-more campaign. When I place that disk image on her MacBook, mount it, and try to run the Snow Leopard installer, I’m told I need to burn it to disc, which isn’t an option. Three problems: Her DVD drive is broken, I have a MacBook Air without a DVD drive, and I have only a disk image of Snow Leopard. She has an older MacBook Pro running Leopard and wants to upgrade to Snow Leopard (she needs Rosetta to run older PowerPC software). Give the gift of tech support by offering my services to my sister. Reader Steven Harris is trying to do the right thing by his family, but technical barriers prevent it.