Useful for repairing unreadable discs
347166
I bought this to repair some discs that are not readable due to scratches.  After using it, the discs can be read.  Good to have around in case.
2751939
Seemed to have work beautifully to fix my for my in-dash OEM CD player for my 12 year old vehicle. The CDs always kept skipping when playing any CD, it was quite annoying. I'm glad however that the CD player had a dirty or oily lens which was resolved rather easily and quickly than something larger. I have a 6 disc changer and tried it on each one just to be on the safe side. The instructions were easy to follow and it was quick and simple. Use it several times to ensure the lens grime, dust or oil is removed completely. May not work on the first try, but it does work very well. Keep at it!
1889924
Using this I was able to fix a 12 year old CD player in my car.
3694036
When cleaning up my Father's belongings, I came upon a number of stray diskettes. As tempted as I was to simply toss them, I broke down and bought this drive to see if anything on the disks could be salvaged, let alone if they contained any worthwhile content. The drive worked perfectly on my Linux Ubuntu system and is indeed simply plug and play -- no need for any bloatware drivers.

While many of the disks wouldn't play and displayed errors, I did find one disk from 1995 containing old typed letters, etc. which was of great value. I got a few errors when trying to copy all the files at once, so instead copied them individually -- that worked error free. It was time consuming, but that disk alone was well worth the cost of the drive.

I also stumbled on a set of backup disks form 1993. They were stored well and I was able to successfully copy all the backup files off of all 25 of the disks.  I've yet to tackle trying to figure out how to extract the files from the backup format. Still, points must go to the drive for getting me this far.
290196
this lens cleaner says on the package it will clean CD/DVD/BLU-RAY. I bought it to use on the Xbox one and when put into the Xbox one it says disc can not be read replace with a readable disc !
4639504
I used this item together with the SkipDr DVD and CD Manual Disc Repair System to try to fix some DVD's that I purchased used.  These discs skipped and paused at times throughout the movie with the end result of trying to watch the movie very frustrating.  I was not sure if the problem was whether or not my DVD/CD player laser lens was dirty or if the discs themselves were simply dirty.  After using these two items together, both the DVD's I have used them on worked perfectly.
1869993
this worked only marginally well - unable to reclaim any badly scratched CD's including some that came that way (Amazon orders) - worked for one that was just skipping a little
2111629
Nice little tool kit! I purchased it to take apart an external Hard Disk Drive to try to fix. I never got the drive to work, but I am happy with the purchase.
4185876
Most of my home-ripped CDs started refusing to play in my Mac Mini CD/DVD superdrive many months ago. The store-bought ones were fine (they're manufactured differently). Some one recommended a laser-lens cleaner, but I was skeptical. Finally I bought this Allsop Ultra ProLens Cleaner, a CD with tiny carbon fiber brushes on the "business" side of the disc. I pushed it into the slot and ran it through for a few seconds just once and, VOILA!!  A MIRACLE !! I kid you not; I kept feeding one homemade CD after another into the drive and every one of them were playing again. Just follow the directions on the disc! A great fix for under $10.
998550
I had an older fat boy PlayStation 3 which did not recognize any discs at all. Researched and discovered I needed this replacement lens to fix it. It took about an hour to disassemble the PS3, replace the lens and reassemble. Fixed the problem!
4471789
Works as advertised. Suitable for people who require recordable CDs for older burners.
2792097
I bought this for the disk which contains the contracts. This disk is DRM'ed, so you cannot work with the documents in any way. I still found it worthwhile to be able to read the text of the documents. The text of the book is less valuable to me, although it may be useful to some.
1629357
I have revived and rejuvenated several disks with this system. If the little jigger bottle runs out of fluid, I've heard distilled water is a good substitute; use tap water or filtered water to ruin discs.
4496542
These things are handy.  If you drop one on a hard floor, be prepared to glue the colored disk back into its slot. Also, on one of them the hinge got stuck. Maybe WD40 will work--haven't tried it yet.  But, overall, for the price, they are useful.
4458392
This product is useful in checking to determine if the HD works so you can rule it out in repairing a computer.  Also does work well in reading data on a HD as a external HD.  I was able to recover a large number of pictures from a computer that stopped working by setting the HD up as an external via this adapter and copying the pictures to another computer.  Very inexpensive tool for computer work.
3546463
I would be a liar if I said it didn't cause several discs to be unreadable by various consoles. I wouldn't be comfortable placing one in my Wii, but others can speak to that if they are. I use mine for protecting PS2 and computer-based game discs in tray CD applications, and I'm willing to trade a couple of tries to protect the media. (Insert, fail, remove, turn disc slightly, reinsert, rinse repeat.) For frequently-swapped discs, I think this is a winner. It does change the weight and balance of the disc slightly, and that seems to be the issue at spin-up for some devices. If you're interested in protecting your discs, I think the minor inconvenience of a couple of tries on rare occasion is a fair trade-off.
3167436
LASER READER IS NOT AS SENSITIVE AS MY LAST ONE  (I OFTEN HAVE TO CLEAN DISC 2 OR 3 TIMES BEFORE IT READS IT ) AND I HAVE TESTED IN ANOTHER COMPUTER WITH AN INTERNAL DRIVE THAT WAS ABLE TO READ  SAME DISC WITHOUT CLEANING. BUT THIS DRIVE WAS VERY INEXPENSIVE AND IT WILL WORK WITH A LITTLE TLC  GOOD ENOUGH FOR PRICE