You didn't write about cleaning the lens but such drives are fungible to a point. Why not sell it as-is?
Bob
Earlier today I was having trouble with my laptop. I erased the drive because I'm planning on selling the laptop on Ebay, but when I tried to boot up the Windows disk to reinstall it wouldn't work. I ended up installing Windows from a flash drive, which worked perfectly. Now though, my DVD drive isn't reading disks. In device manager, it shows and device status says "This device is working properly". I know it isn't though, and there's nothing I can do about it. I've tried updating the drivers, but they're already up to date. I've tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it, but it still doesn't work. I've also run Microsoft Fix It on the laptop, but that couldn't find a solution. I've also tried a firmware update on the DVD drive, which made absolutely no difference.

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