MacBook Air :: Won't Work / With Or Without Optical Drive

Mar 16, 2009

My next Mac will be a laptop, and I will NEVER need the Macbook pro's power. I just web-surf and listen to music mostly. I only use the optical drive to watch dvds. But I have a separate player for my much larger TV now. So for say 99 percent of the time, an optical drive would be unnecessary. But I would buy apple's separate optical drive; which I think is a good idea. On my present computer, a first generation Mac Mini, the DVD drive is obviously obsolete now, especially when it comes to Blu-Ray. But what if a like in 2 years a new optical format comes out, or at least a much faster version? If I had a Macbook I would be stuck, never being able to upgrade the internal drive. If the Macbook's optical drive was easily upgradable, then this would be a no brainer.

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MacBook Air :: Won't Work With Optical Drive / Can't Work With Remote Disk

Aug 4, 2008

So I have a MacBook Pro, and my Dad has a MacBook Air. I was wandering if I needed Wi-Fi to access the optical drive on my MBP through the MBA using remote disk

Will they find each-other without Wi-Fi?

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Apr 9, 2010

My Macbook 1.83 GHz needs a replacement optical drive. Will the one from my iBook 800 MHz G4 work and fit in?

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Oct 23, 2010

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MacBook Pro :: Optical Drive No Longer Writing / Get It To Work?

Sep 9, 2009

I don't know why, but just now, I tried to burn a few .mov files onto a dvd and it won't work, I get the following error. , and yes, the drive reads, but won't write.

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Hardware :: Won't Work With Optical Drive Or Hard Drive Failure

Mar 12, 2010

We have i-Mac 20" with built in i-sight Power PC, one of last ones I think before the intel. We have had a few problems before with it powering down and going to sleep. Used to hoover dust out and that seemed to fix it.

Now it won't start at all. I have tried all the PRAM and various commands to re set various things but none of these work. We had a wireless keyboard and I have just tried a wired one but I do not think either are connecting as the tab key light does not come on, which it does when I tested the wired on on my lap top.

When it died it crashed with a cd in drive. I have removed this and replaced it with the mac install disk to try and run the disk check but the optical drive is not starting at all either.

All that happens on start up is the sleep light comes on, then after a few moments fan starts to whirl. I can't hear the hard drive - have tried to rock hard drive to get it to spin but nothing.

Just wondering whether worth trying to replace optical drive or is this being controlled by hard drive - hence its not working nor hard drive. is there any way to recover data if it is the hard drive that is dead? anything else I can try and replace to fix it? could I use an external optical drive connected via USB to start?
I have tried to firewire but not joy their either!

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Mac Pro :: Won't Work With 2nd Optical Drive

Dec 7, 2009

I have a 2 * 2.8ghz quad Mac Pro

I have dvds from Region 1 but my daughter has sent me some work of hers from the Uk. I only have 5 times to change the region and therefore my question is should i buy a 2nd optical drive and use that for region 2 and the original for region 1.

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Mac Pro :: Optical Drive Won't Work Only For Some DVDs

Dec 14, 2010

Ok so i have an early 2008 Mac Pro, that has been reformatted couple days ago. So when i install my softwares again and i realized some of the DVDs can't be read anymore, the drive just makes a certain sound every 5 secs or so and eventually it just ejects by itself. Now the weird part and the thing i just don't get is why it's only like that for certain DVDs.

For example, i was installing Ableton Suite 8 again, and there are 4 discs. For some reason disc 2-4 work but the Disc 1 doesn't read at all. And i know it's not a problem with the DVDs cause they work on my macbook pro and even my PC. And i tried to burn a copy of that disc 1 into a blank DVD and tried to run that to install and it worked, so it can't be any data issues or whatever with the DVD.

Is this a firmware issue? if so how do i fix this? I thought at first it could just be because i reformatted my mac recently and then this all happened. But i've reformatted my mac several times before and never had this problem. Or this is optical drive just laming out and its time to buy a new one?

But then again why does it work for some DVDs and not for others? It's just BUGGING me ALL DAY.

oh and the drive model is:

Sony NEC optiarc AD-7170A

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Mac Pro :: Won't Work With Second Optical Drive / Can't Eject

Dec 27, 2006

Are there any specifics I should know about the second drive bay? I'm planning on buying just a really fast CD-ROM drive to put in there - can I get any ole' one? I noticed that the Apple drive does not have a faceplate - does this mean I have to remove the faceplate from whatever drive I get? Are there drives available that already have no faceplate?

I never used Mac OS X with more than one optical drive - how does opening a drive work? Does the eject button open both drives? One at a time?

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Hardware :: Won't Work / Optical Drive Ejecting Everything

Jan 4, 2009

My optical drive seems to reject everything i put into it. It shoes up in system profiler and about this mac, but when i try to put a dvd or cd in they will spin and make noises and then the computer will just eject em.

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OS X :: Unable To Work With Networked Optical Drive

Dec 23, 2009

I have created a image of my macbook pro (2006), on a DL-R disk. (This was so that I can restore my mac without having to do any updates or having to download and install programs) However, the person who made the image for me is no longer available and as such I have no way to use the DL-R disk. Apparently the macbook pro 2006 cannot read DL-R disks. I know that apple has a networked optical drive feature for the macbook Air. Would I be able to use this feature on my macbook pro?

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Mac Pro :: Optical Drive Won't Eject / Can't Work With Settings

Feb 20, 2008

I'm not a total newbie with mac and computers in general, but I cannot get the one and only super drive to eject... yes, I have hit the eject button, it shows the eject icon in the screen and nothing... how can I get the thing to eject?

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IMac :: Won't Work With Optical Drive / Can't Accept Disk

Aug 10, 2010

I have a 3 year old 24" iMac (see sig). I recently discovered the optical drive is not working any more. It won't accept any discs and just spits them out. Two questions:

-I assume the drive can be replaced somewhere like the Apple Store. Does anyone know about how much that would cost?

-Are there any alternatives to replacing the internal drive, like buying an external desktop optical drive? If so, what's a good one to get?

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Hardware :: Unable To Work With Optical Drive / Can't Pick Cd

Dec 17, 2007

When ripping CD's with my new iMac 20", occasionally a CD will start to initialize then it will disappear from the desktop. I can eject the CD using Disk Utility or even using the hard-button on the Mac keyboard but other than that it is as though the CD is not there. Then, when I put the CD back in again all is well and it comes right up. I have never had this problem with the same CD twice in a row.

Also the drive seems really picky - iTunes will hang when trying to rip a CD that is at all "well used" (OK I don't take care of my CD's as well as I should but they work fine in my Windows machines).

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Mac Pro :: Won't Work With Optical Drive / Can't Open Or Shut After Insert Disk

Nov 17, 2008

My 2.8MP early 2008 with one optical drive is having some random issues iwth it.

ive only used the optical drive a few times however one instance it wont open for the drive to come out NOW, it wont shut when i insert a disc.

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Intel Mac :: Internal Optical Drive For (late 2006) Won't Work

May 19, 2012

The internal optical drive (MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846) for my Intel iMac (late 2006) stop working after listening to a music CD. I inserted another music CD and the drive will try to read the CD, but after awhile, it would eject the CD. I inserted the last music CD I listened to and it did the same thing. Then I inserted several other data cds into the drive resulting in the same problem. 

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

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Mac Mini :: (Fall 2010) Optical DVD Drive Doesn't Work?

May 26, 2012

I purchased this spring of 2011 and only used the drive to install the software. I had lots of other problems with kernel issues and was in and out of the Genius Store like a hen on an egg, but now I am trying to use the DVD drive and it doesn't work. It doesn't recognize any applications to open it, not Toast, not Disk Utility, and it has a hard time recognizing music CDs also.Not only does it not recognize it on the desktop, it simply spits the disk out. I purchased new DVD-RW and tried to write an .iso image to the DVD, and it won't work. Sad fact is that this is now past the warranty and I am stuck with this. The Mac Mini 2010 version was expensive, and the only reason I bought it was because of the drive because I didn't have one. 

Info:
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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MacBook Air :: Will All Portable USB Optical Drives Work

Mar 19, 2012

Will any external, portable USB optical drive work well with by Macbook Air?

Info:
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Jun 5, 2014

My slot leading super drive has just quit ejecting the cd inside.  I tried 5 different ways to eject it but none work.

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MacBook Pro :: Removing Optical Drive - DVD Drive In Enclosure?

Dec 7, 2010

I was thinking of removing my DVD Superdrive and adding a SSD drive. Will I be able to put the DVD drive in an enclosure and use it as an external drive?

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MacBook Pro :: Won't Replace Optical Drive With A Second Hard Drive

Aug 22, 2009

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OS X :: Won't Use Optical Drive In Place Of Macbook Drive

Jul 7, 2010

So I have a Macbook (late 2008 model), and the optical drive essentially went bye bye. If I put a disc in, it will have trouble recognizing it and then it will eject out. Anyways, last night, I did some maintenance on OnyX and it said that my volume needs to be repaired. Even Disc Utility failed to finish and said that the "filesystem verify or repair failed."

The short of it, I need to put the Leopard disc in there and do a disc repair. However, is there a way, via firewire, where I could actually use my iMac's optical disc drive in place of the Macbook and connect via firewire, then do the disc repair? If so, what would be the specific way to do this?

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MacBook Pro :: MBP Optical Drive ?

Sep 11, 2009

I have a MacbookPro. The factory fitted DVD/CD drive plays dvds fine but spits out CDs [even originals]. I have Windows XP installed via bootcamp which doesn't cause me any problems.

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MacBook Pro :: Booting Off USB Optical Drive?

Feb 17, 2010

So I have a 2.2GHz SR MBP, and the superdrive just went out on me. It will read and write to CDs, but won't recognize any DVDs that I insert into it. I bought a USB enclosure and DVD drive, and it works fine to read and write to DVDs when in Snow Leopard, but I am unable to boot from it (specifically so I can install Windows 7, but I can't boot SL either). I reboot and and hold down option, and only see Macintosh HD, not the disk I'm trying to boot off. I've cloned SL to my flash drive and I can boot off that fine, but unfortunately I'm unable to do that with Windows...

Any ideas? I've googled it and it seems like booting off a USB optical drive is supported, so I'm unsure why it's not working for me...

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MacBook Pro :: Remove Optical Drive From MBP Entirely

May 14, 2010

I had a MBA. I needed more RAM, higher CPU and larger drive capacity. So I changed to MBP. What I dont need is the optical drive. Apple should ditch the optical drive in MBPs or at least have an option not having an optical. Instead more battery and 2 disk bays.

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MacBook Pro :: Eject A CD That Won't Come Out Of The Optical Drive?

Mar 21, 2012

How do I eject a CD that won't come out of the optical drive on a MacBook Pro . I have tried the ejcct key on the keyboard. There is no longer an eject disk on the drop down menus.

Info:
Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook Pro :: Diagnose The Optical Drive In It?

Apr 10, 2012

There is the hardware test, but it does not seem to include the Optical drive, I did the extended test and it says that everything is working fine, obviously it is not, everytime I insert a CD/DVD it plays it right, but it does not come out on its own and i have a hard time to get it out somehow, this happen exactly 1 week after the guarantee run out! I have a MacbookPro 15 inch 2.4GHZ, 2GB Ram 250 Hard Drive?

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)

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MacBook Pro :: Replacing Optical Drive With SSD?

Apr 20, 2012

I have a time machine backup on external drive. 

I would like to:

1. clean install Lion on the new SSD (120 GB)

2. restore apps from my backup on the SSD

3. keep only data on the existing HDD 

My questions: 

What is the best way to make it? 

Can I just keep the existing system on my non-SSD HDD, and after having Lion on SSD keep just data and delete the system libraries? Or is it better to format the whole disk and restore data from time machine backup (so it is not fragmented..

Info:
MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), MacBook Pro 2010

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MacBook :: Replace The Optical Drive On It?

May 21, 2012

how do you replace the optical drive on a macbook?

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MacBook Pro :: Not Working Optical Drive

Jun 3, 2012

since 2 days my optical drive makes one very strange noise every time in "wake it up" or turn it on. The sound is done three times. I realized today that now I'm not able to put a disc into the drive, instead of "absorving" the disc, the drive expels it.

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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