MacBook Pro :: Disk Player Isn't Reading Any Disks?
Jun 17, 2014My Pro has stopped reading any disks.
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OS X :: CD/DVD Drive Not Reading Disks?
Mar 7, 2010Bought a MacBook about a year and half ago and have had no issues until today. I have been able to burn numerous CD's and DVD's but for some reason today when I tried to burn a CD it keeps spitting the blank CD out. I doesn't seem to recognize any disk. When I put a disk in it makes a quiet noise like it's trying to read it but after a few seconds spits it out. No application seems to recognize any disk either.
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Aug 15, 2009it kind of just happened suddenly but my new aluminum iMac can not read CD/DVDs nor show them as an icon on the desktop. I don't know if this matters but it stopped reading them shortly after I preformed a mount with toast titanium on a mac universal binary image. Also, if I put a disk in, it thinks for a bit, then spits it out. I think I may have shut down the computer without dismounting the image and I don't know if that may contribute to the problem.
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Oct 14, 2007I have a G5 Power PC with Dual Ghz 2.5 processors. I have two 250 GB hard drives, my primary drive has 45 GB available and my secondary (storage drive) has 10 GB left.
My problem is that I have 6.5 GB of installed and recognized RAM, and yet I constantly hear my hard drive spinning up, as though the OS is using virtual RAM off of my hard drive(s), and ignoring my plentiful system RAM.
This happens when launching every application - big or small - and even surfing the internet. I open Activity Monitor and see that my Virtual memory is 7.2 when idle and grows to 8.5 with a couple of programs open. My page in/out is 48919/0.
This "spin up" sound happens all of the time, whether I am working on something or not, but particularly when I launch programs. No background programs (such as a virus scanner) are installed or running.
So my question is this: Is there any way that I can adjust OS X (latest version) so that it strictly reads my system RAM first before going to my drive? Some setting somewhere? I thought that OS X (as in all computers) only went to the hard drive's VM when it ran out of System RAM. Am I missing something?
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Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 and iMac G4 800MHz w/ 1 GB RAM
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
G5 Dual 2.5 Ghz 6.5 GB DDR SDRAM, 2 - 250 GB HDs Logic studio 8 and Adobe CS3 Suite,.
MacBook :: Player Not Reading CD Or DVD - Just Ejected It
Dec 25, 2010I have a iBook G4. The cd player all of a sudden is not reading a dvd or a cd when inserted. Never have had a problem with it at all. It tries to read it and then just ejects it. Tried to reinstall a new dvd software for the dvd player but didn't help. Just tried to insert a blank cd to burn jpgs to it and did the same thing, just ejected it.
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Jan 24, 2010I have two commercial discs that I have been watching. Now one of them is not being read by my DVD Player. I watched the disc last night. I cannot read it today, but I can still read the other one.
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Apr 23, 2012I am in the process of pulling the data off of my collection of floppy disks. A lot of them are the really ancient 800K kind so I am using a Mac Classic II running System 7.0.1 to access them. The process is going well but occasionally I've run across a PC formatted floppy that the Mac won't read. It just says: This disk is not a Macintosh diskette. Do you want to Initialize it? So how do I give my Classic the ability to access these PC format diskettes?
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Jun 4, 2014I have an old Macbook via 2007 and I'm trying to update my operating system (currently OS 10.5.8) to Snow Leopard, but the disk is not reading in the disk drive. And unfortunately, Snow Leopard is only on a DVD, it can't be downloaded.I figure I have 2 choices:
1) take it in and spend $49 to have them do diagnostics and then tell me they probably need to replace the superdriveÂ
2) I could buy an external optical drive. But I would need to know which one would be compatable with my old *** Macbook.
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OS X :: Player Not Reading CDs - Just Pops Out After Few Seconds
Jan 30, 2010I have had my Mac OSX(10.5.7) for 3 years and have always played and burned cd's with no problems. However this morning all of a sudden it's not reading any cd's I put in. They just pop out after a few seconds. Blank cd's and cd's with stuff on them. It doesn't make any sound at all the cd just pops out after a few seconds.
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Jul 15, 2009DVD Player won't read most of my commercial DVD media. I insert the disk, and it shows up on the desktop. But when I try to run it through the DVD app, the program just freezes, and I get the beach ball. I tried opening through VLC player, and even VLC wouldn't correctly read the disk.
I have the original Apple-shipped Superdrive, as well as an external Lacie drive. I tried disks in both drives with the same result.
All my disks are Region 1 major titles.
I'm running Mac Pro 2.66ghz, 9gb RAM, OS 10.5.7.
Mac Mini :: Any Upgrade To DVD Player To Read HD Disks?
Mar 26, 2009Is there any way to upgrade my DVD player to read HD DVDs?
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May 26, 2012I purchased my MacBook Pro in 2010 and it came with 10.6. Several months ago I upgraded via app store download to 10.7.2. My computer is starting up pretty slow and a little sludgy right now and I need to do a disk repair but am not sure how. Before I would just boot from the CD, but I only have the 10.6 CD that came with my computer, I don't have the 10.7 CD.
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MacBook Pro
OS X :: Not Reading The Leopard Install Disk?
Jan 10, 2008My husband and I bought the family edition of Leopard last night, along with iLife08. I installed iLife while he installed Leopard. No problems on either Mac.
However, when I went to install Leopard, once I double clicked to start the install, it seems like my Mac won't "read" the disk. I get the spinning rainbow and there's lots of chugging sounds happening, but after almost an hour (yeah, I'm patient), it was pretty apparent that nothing was actually happening.
I'm really perplexed...it's not a disk problem, as it installed fine on my husband's Macbook...and it's not a drive issue as iLife installed just fine a few minutes before trying Leopard.
OS X :: CD Drive Not Reading And Ejecting Disk
Nov 9, 2009I was trying to import a cd into my macbook pro this afternoon and it went in and clicked into place but then started making a huming sort of noise, but was you could hear it was not spinning, about 20 seconds later it ejected. I tried it multiple times and restarted my computer but nothing seemed to help. The disk drive isn't bent out of shape or anything and I've never had a problem with it until now.
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Jul 30, 2010I currently have a 1TB and a 500GB disk as a concatenated disk on my computer.My iTunes library is stored on there and it sometimes takes a second or so to load up my library.As my library is fast approaching 1TB, what would be my best course of action?The Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB is on ebuyer for ?47 at the moment, which is a pretty nice price. Should I give up on Apple's software solution and look for a raid card that will give me RAID-0 for two 1TB disks?What would give the best performance? I can't afford a Drobo and don't want anything plugged in externally if possible.
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Mar 13, 2009My son made me a DVD-r of mp3 files and a dvd on his new mac. I cannot get it to read on my system. Other CDs and dvds work fine so know disk drive is ok. I have tried the disk on windows based computers and it works fine. Is my computer too old to read or do you have a suggestion on how to read? When I insert the disk, nothing comes up on the desktop to click on to read.
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Mar 1, 2012I have noticed a lot of disk activity reading and writing, it maxes out in bursts up to a couple of minutes at a time and overall seams to be reading and writing a lot of the time, with no processor activity at all. There is no obvious culprits in the activity monitor but terminal displayed large number of read and writes for mds, but spot light is not indexing (no dot in Mag glass) and this has been happening from months now.
Possibly longer noticed it when recieved replacement drive due to crook seagate, may have been doing this but could not hear it. Running last Snow Leopard on iMac 27 mid 2011 i7 custom with 8 gb of ram. also should note this unit has had load of issues Bad Ram, some software problems would not sleep (software) none of which have ever manifested on any of my other (older) macs. Also have noted that this drive activity does seem to coincide with using safari on occasion??
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Using Disk Utility To Verify Or Repair Disks?
Jun 16, 2012on doing a disk utilities scan it came up with this - "Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map" why won't it let me repair this problem?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
MacBook Pro :: Start Up Disk Is Nearly Full And Scratch Disks Are Full?
Mar 23, 2012I have taken everything off my desk top and backed it up and it's still saying the same thing! I've also emptied the trash. I get it when I try to use Photoshop.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X :: External Drive And Disks Don't Show On Desktop, Visible In Disk Utility, Can't Burn DVD
Feb 8, 2010Disks I put in the Superdrive, external hard drives, or anything in the USB or Firewire (thumbdrive, etc) -- nothing shows up on the desktop. All are visible in Disk Utility. USB thumbdrives and external hard drives are visible in the sidebar in Finder, but disks are not (only disk utility).
Because of this I can't burn a disk because the disk is not being recognized. In Disk Utility, the external hard drives appear mounted and can be opened in Finder, but why aren't they appearing on my desktop (they used to)?
MacBook Pro :: Startup Disk Full After Adobe Flash Player Update
May 15, 2012I received an update request for a new version of the Adobe Flash player this morning. I accepted it and the installation seemed to work fine. The only special was that the last 5% of the installation took some minutes to install.
Minutes later the system (MAC OS Lion) sent a warning that my startup disk is nearly full. The disk had about 150GB free disk space. When I checked it with the finder my disk space was about 350 MB and declining. I disconnected the MacBook from the internet and the the declining of the available disk size stopped.Â
If I check the disk information (using the finder) of the harddrive and it showed only 350MB as free. If I check the size of the folders on the top layer and add them together I should still have about 150GB of free disk space.Â
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iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Intel Mac :: External Hard Disks Not Visible On The Hard Disk
Jan 31, 2012I've connected my new Iomega Minimax with a firewire cable directly to my iMAc but nothing appears on my desktop.
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iMac
Intel Mac :: Have No DVD Player And Cannot Eject Disk Continues To Run?
Jun 12, 2012I was watching DVD - tried to eject - told me to shut down DVD Drive before eject - would not allow shut down - tried reboot and suggested eject - did not work because program DVD continues to run. Now have no DVD player and can not eject disk continues to run.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), Open attachments
OS X :: USB Disk Format Compatibility With Sony Bdp - S370 Blue Ray Player?
Oct 24, 2010I've used my usb key to play movies on my sony blu ray player many times before. Now that I formatted the disk on my mac, I started to get a message that said the usb is not recognized. After searching around, I found possible answers, but none worked. I formatted the disk to FAT 32, but still got the same message. I tried making it into ntfs-3g format, but still nothing. Has anyone had this problem or know how I can format it so that I can play videos again on my blu ray player?
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Aug 20, 2014I successfully installed Adobe flash player. Latest version. How do I set this as my default player application?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Downloaded Adobe Flash Player / Should It Show Up On Disk Utility Pane?
Apr 29, 2012Have just downloaded Adobe Flash and went to do permissions where I found the file "install_ flash_ player_ osx." and also the icon with "Flash Player" directly underneath.These are listed under the list of drives to select on left side of pane. Is this normal? Do I need to do permissions? On HD?
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Nov 27, 2010I have a Macbook Pro Intel Core Duo (first generation of MacBook Pro released). I run OSX 10.6.5. My disk utility has detected a problem and says I need the install disks that came with the computer. Called apple and they said I could reboot from snow leopard or the upgrade.** Problem is that I don't have any disks with me except those that came with my brand new iMac. Can I use those to reinstall the system? Is there any other way?
**They also said that after 2007, the install disks that come with computers are keyed to that specific computer so I "might" not be able to use the disk to repair.
Additionally, and I don't know if this makes a difference but I have the airport/time capsule which backs up my computer for easy restore.
Software :: Unable To Install Quicktime Player Pro / Player Not Found?
Sep 4, 2010have in the past few weeks uprgraded from tiger to leopard.Everything has been ok but i think i might have deleted some vital part of Quicktime player when i tried to clean up.I only realised this when i decided to get Quicktime player pro which i have paid for and have the key..I have tried to download quicktime from apple support website and just about any other website for that matter but zero.zilch.Installer takes me through the process but i get no player.
I have tried to remove all components of quicktime but to no avail.the download intalls but goes nowhere.Have tried to maybe 'jumpstart' it by double clicking quicktime time movies but there is just nothing going on.
Model Name:PowerBook G4 15"
Model Identifier:PowerBook5,8
Processor Name:PowerPC G4 (1.5)
Processor Speed:1.67 GHz
Number Of CPUs:1
L2 Cache (per CPU):512 KB
Memory:2 GB
Bus Speed:167 MHz
Boot ROM Version:4.9.5f3
QuickTime :: Camera Movies To Player Or Windows Media Player?
Mar 29, 2012Digital movies play just fine on my camera, a NIkon Coolpix but once I import them to either quicktime or windows media player they do not play smoothly. Any ideas why or what I can do to correct this?
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quicktime or windows media player , Windows XP, camera digital films won't play
