Did I use the right Lens Cleaner to Clean my Blu Ray disc drive and did I do it properly?

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I have a question. I replaced my old Asus Blu ray drive earlier this year because I assumed it went bad when it no longer read the discs. It was only after I got my LG Blu ray drive that I learned that the possible cause for the Asus drive acting up was because of dust build up. I decided to buy a lens cleaner called CleanDr by Digital Innovations. It was designed to clean Blu Ray and DVD based players. I was told that it would be safe to use on PC Blu ray drives. I am a music listener. I prefer to rip my music from CDs as opposed to digital purposes because I wish to retain sound quality from the CD. I just had two audio CDs resurfaced and cleaned at a local video rental store. I did not realize until after I had ripped the CDs that dust or whatever was leftover from the cleaning and resurfacing materials and processes covered the CDs. Out of concern that the dust might have started covering the laser, I decided to pop in the CleanDr and run it to clean the laser lens of any possible dust. Now, I use Windows 10. I had assumed that I would get a pop up display from the disc explaining what I needed to do to start the cleaning process. Nothing popped up from the disc. I assumed the Blu ray drive was trying to read the disc because it sounded like the disc was spinning in the drive. I ejected the disc two or three tries to see if a display would pop up and each time I gave the disc a few minutes. In all attempts, it sounded like the disc was spinning. The Blu ray drive appeared to be able to play an audio CD without trouble. However, since this is my first time trying this, I am concerned that I may have performed the procedures incorrectly and possibly damaged the drive even though right now it seems to be working properly. Did I do the procedure correctly, did the lens cleaner clean the drive both properly and safely, or should I look at a different lens cleaner in the future?

The lens cleaner and Blu Ray drive are listed below:

Lens Cleaner
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00419ZT3E/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

LG Blu Ray Drive
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E7B08MS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thanks in advance.
 
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Phillip Corcoran
I've had my current custom-built PC for 12 years and never had to clean the ODD, it works fine now just as it did when it was new.

Same with my living-room DVD player, that's 15 years old, never had a cleaning disc inside it yet it plays discs just fine.

So there you are, they are unecessary in my experience. Just another way for companies to get your money.
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I have never had any faith for the cleaning disks/discs, may it be for FDD or ODD. I still have FDD cleaning disk (3.5") in a sealed package from the days past that i didn't use at all.

The thing with cleaning disk/disc is that there's no way telling if it actually works and if the solution on the disk/disc is harmful to the FDD/ODD or not. Here's a good article to read about them,
link: http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/CD-DVD-cleaning-discs-may-do-more-harm-than-good

Using one is simple, put it into the drive and let it spin for 1-2 minutes and then take it out.
Since cleaning disk/disc doesn't contain any data and it's a blank, you won't get any pop-up to "start the cleaning process". :D

As far as failing ODDs go, in my years of PC usage, ODD is #1 component that fails. With regular use, i can get by with one ODD about a year or two before ODD fails to read my discs. Since ODD doesn't cost much, it's easy to replace it.
 
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I've had my current custom-built PC for 12 years and never had to clean the ODD, it works fine now just as it did when it was new.

Same with my living-room DVD player, that's 15 years old, never had a cleaning disc inside it yet it plays discs just fine.

So there you are, they are unecessary in my experience. Just another way for companies to get your money.
 
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