- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Heyyo,
Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Yes, animal hair would probably do it. As would dust, lint, human hair, carpet fibers, and anything else possibly floating around in the air. Getting a new drive would probably be the best idea, unless you're brave and want to try repairing it.
Not too hard to open them for cleaning. Just first eject the tray, take off the front bezel cover of the tray (usually done by pulling the bottom part out, then sliding the bezel upwards), and then the drive bezel too (usually done by tabs on the side, top and bottom being pushed in, usually kinda swings upwards to get it out).
Then take out the 4 screws on the bottom.
Then slide off the bottom part by pulling straight apart the top and bottom assembly's, and then clean away. To re assemble? just do what I said in reverse really. ;)
The proper way to clean anything computer related is with either a can of compressed air ($5 CAD or so on average) or an air compressor machine (... dunno costs, lol), and then vaccum up the dust and crap.
I hope this was helpful in your adventures of cleaning your computer hardware. =)