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Verbatim 43888 no longer reads any discs
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2025 12:56 pm
by MashBasher69
about 2 months ago I got into ripping movies for my plex server. It's been going fine until about a week ago when I tried to rip Regular Show The Complete Series. I got through season1-4 fine but then it wouldn't recognise discs 1 and 3 for season 5. After that my drive seemed to stop reading all discs, whether it be ones that worked before or some new ones I got. Does anyone know a fix or is my drive defective?
Re: Verbatim 43888 no longer reads any discs
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2025 8:21 pm
by Wldulikesometoast
This has happened to me too, in six weeks rather than eight...must be trash drives I guess bud ...I'm trying to get a refund and pivot to a different drive
Re: Verbatim 43888 no longer reads any discs
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2025 10:26 pm
by MartyMcNuts
MashBasher69 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 12:56 pm
about 2 months ago I got into ripping movies for my plex server. It's been going fine until about a week ago when I tried to rip Regular Show The Complete Series. I got through season1-4 fine but then it wouldn't recognise discs 1 and 3 for season 5. After that my drive seemed to stop reading all discs, whether it be ones that worked before or some new ones I got. Does anyone know a fix or is my drive defective?
You could try cleaning the lasers. Very easy to do on the those. Also, sometimes they get themselves confused and need a complete power down for a few minutes and then restart to get them back to normal.
Re: Verbatim 43888 no longer reads any discs
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 10:03 am
by MashBasher69
Hi, thanks for the reply. What is your recommended way of cleaning the laser? I've left the drive completely unplugged over night and that doesn't seem to have done anything.
Re: Verbatim 43888 no longer reads any discs
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2025 12:54 am
by MartyMcNuts
MashBasher69 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 03, 2025 10:03 am
Hi, thanks for the reply. What is your recommended way of cleaning the laser? I've left the drive completely unplugged over night and that doesn't seem to have done anything.
Usually a q-tip with some alcohol. There's a couple of threads mentioning how to clean them if you do a search.
Re: Verbatim 43888 no longer reads any discs
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 11:53 am
by MashBasher69
hi, sorry this reply has took sooo long. cleaning it didn't seem to work. I've returned it and got a refund. I'm not sure what drive to replace it with?