OS X :: Installing A New Internal DVD Burner?
Feb 16, 2010
I Have a MacbookPro OSX 10.6.2 2gz intel core duo, recently i extracted a dvd burner from a crapped out dell laptop, it was the exact dimensions and looked identical to the old mac cd burner, so I installed it in my mac, and now my mac cant see the burner, When I go to "About this Mac" in the apple icon and click on disc burning it says "no disc burning device found". I wonder if theres a driver of some sort or do I have to re-install osx to get this working?
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Feb 8, 2009
I already have an External enclosure that turned an old HDD into an external HDD (IDE to USB and a Power cable). Now, if i had an Internal DVD burner, can i plug it into my HDD enclosure and use it to burn DVDs?
I know it wont fit INSIDE the enclosure but luckily the enclosure has a back panel with all the hookups that come off completely so i could just plug it in and sit it on a desk while its in use.
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Mar 11, 2012
Been trying to find an internal blu-ray burner drive to install on my 24 inch iMac 2.4. Does anyone know of an internal drive I can use.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 11, 2012
I can no longer burn DVD's on my PowerPC G5 with 10.5.8, but can no longer do it as well on my Macbook Pro with OS 10.6--are all internal Superdrives now non functioning!!?? I've wasted many DVD's and no successes, just error messages and failures to burn.
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), PowerPC Processor
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Apr 15, 2006
When using toast, I get this error message -
The drive reported an error:
Sense Key = HARDWARE ERROR
Sense Code = 0x44, 0xD9
Iinternal Target Failure
I also get a similar message when trying to burn through the OS.
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May 11, 2012
Is there a cheap way/compatible way to record audio to an external CD burner rather than the internal drive?
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Mar 14, 2007
so apparently my mac mini does not burn dvd's. so i was wondering if it is possible if i can install one in it? and if so where? i have a mac mini running on mac OSX. Version 10.4.2. 512 MB. 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4.
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Mar 30, 2012
iMacrunning OS10.7.3 have been burning DVD sucsessfully Using Toast 11, but now receive error message Sense Key = Medium error sense Code 0x02 No seek complete. Tried different blank DVD's same error. What does the Code mean?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Nov 30, 2010
I have 2 internal drives, one which is an ssd and full. The other is a 1TB internal hdd and I use it mainly for everything that aren't programs.
Now that my ssd (boot drive) is full, I want to install my programs to my internal drive, but I can't find the option to do so. Specifically the program I'm trying to install is XCode.
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Mar 15, 2009
How would I go about this if I didn't want to do it myself? Could I get someone at the Apple store to do it for me? (if so how much would that set me back)
Also, I'm not too good with hardware and stuff like that, would it be easy to put a new and bigger HD in myself?
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Dec 13, 2009
I have a macbook pro 13".. the HD crashed and i had to send it out for recovery (the platter was f'd up) and the optical drive stopped working.
i have a thingy i use where i pllug in the internal HD and it becomes a USB on my imac... can i run Tiger and install it to that specific HD and format it as well? then when i plug the HD back into the macbook it will work?
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Jun 16, 2008
I just got a mac pro last week. The day i got it i installed a 1TB WD sate drive in bay 2....No problems it works great.....However, today i picked up 2 more 1 TB WD drives and attempted to install into slots 3 and 4... PROBLEM!The drives are showing up as external/firewire drives- not internal drivesCan anyone help with what i should do?Oh, and when i restart, they come up uninitialized.- But the problem anyway is that they need to be seen as internal
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Jan 30, 2009
i just installed vista home premium. everything seems to work fine except for my internal speakers it says that they are installed but they don't work. the name that shows up is high definition audio device.
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Jul 31, 2010
I'm planning to install a second internal HD in the optical drive space to accompany my 80gb SSD. The basic process of physically installing the 2nd HD I understand. [URL] But what I do not "FULLY" understand, is the process of "installing" the new HD when you boot the computer. - general and specifics This may seem like a "unnecessary/dumb" question, but the main reason why I'm asking this is because I'm installing this 2nd HD from the optical drive space. Is the process in installing an HD the same as if I were to install it in the original HD area?
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Jul 4, 2012
I have a 13 inch Aluminum Late 2008 MacBook. Processor 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53). Currently I have a 160 GB SATA disk as my hard drive a d 4 GB of memory. (Is it time to upgrade or what?) I recently bought a Western Digital 1 TB internal hard drive to replace my exisiting internal hard drive. I spent a lot of time last night trying to first- connect this new hard drive to my computer so that I can then clone the existing hard drive and then hoping that I would get that done so I could install the new hard drive. No such luck.
My current hard drive is partitioned as follows:
Name: Macintosh HD
Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled)
Size: 132.5 GB
Name: BOOTCAMP
Format: Windows NT File System (NTFS)
Size: 26.69 GB
When I was partitioning the new drive I did so as follows:
Name: Macintosh HD
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Size: 973.51 GB
Name: BOOTCAMP
Format: MS-DOS (FAT) --- This was the only option that I was given that I thought would work. I did not have the option of "Windows NT File System (NTFS) to choose from. Question # 1: is that going to be a problem? I only run 1 program on Windows and that is the only reason I have BOOTCAMP on there at all. However, I do HAVE to have that program. Like I said it didn't give me the option to choose Windows so I didn't know where to go with this. Any help with that would be awesome.
Size: 26.34 GB (I just used the same size that was current, or close to it.) I connected the Western Digital 1 TB through an external device, partitioned it as stated above, and then used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drives. The first one went through fine. (It took 2 hours and I went to bed before it finished.) This morning I woke to see that it had gone through well. I then started the process with the BOOTCAMP drives. However, before I started it gave me errors stating that I wouldn't be able to run Windows off of the Cloned BOOTCAMP drive. Question #2: Is it because of the Format type I chose when partitioning?
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Nov 10, 2007
I want to keep my applications etc on one internal HD and use my second internal HD as a back up.I am a graphic designer, and i have been backing up to an external LACIE Porche 160 Gig firewire HD. This has worked fine, but...My second internal HD (112 gig?) is still loaded with 10.3 and has adobe CS2 on it along with some other crap that I no longer need.I have loaded Adobe CS3 on my primary drive and have all the files I need on that one...What is the best way to set up my second HD as a "slave" drive to improve the performance of my G5 dual 2 Ghz??Will there be any issues now that I loaded Leopard on the primary HD?
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Power PC G5 Tower 2 Ghz dual processor (2004?) with two internal hard drives
Mac OS X (10.5)
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Jun 29, 2014
I recently purchased a new SSD and would like to input that into my MBP 2012. If I have a partition on my external HDD that contains the carbon copy of my MBP, am I able to clone it into my SSD after I have installed it in the MBP through the USB?
Internal HDD --> External HDD
Place internal HDD into optibay, and place SSD into the harddisk slot
Connect External HDD via USB to MBP
CarbonCopy to new SSD via USB from External HDD
Format Internal HDD
Will this work?
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Oct 17, 2009
I would like to add second DVD burner in my Mac Pro 2006.
I will connect it to one of the additional SATA connectors.
Which one of these burners would work under Mac OS X ?
Sony / NEC (Optiarc) DVD+/-RW AD-5240S
Asus DVD+/-RW DRW-24B1ST
Lite-ON DVD+/-RW IHAS424 LightScribe
I got IDECdRomOPTIARC_DVD_RW_AD-7170A_________________1.NC____ currently as first drive.
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Nov 22, 2006
My G5 power mac has a standard CD burner in it that came with it when I got it - its given up the ghost. So I am going to replace it with a DVD Burner. Would I be right in thinking I can throw any DVD Burner in there? If i get the latest Pioneer Tray loading burner, that would slot right in there no problems right?
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Feb 6, 2007
Can you burn disks at 16X on a G4. I have a MDD and I'm not sure how fast the optical drive bus is but I could swear its an ATA-3 bus, which I think is either 16MBps or 33MBps. Not quite sure. Does anyone have one and can vauch the full 16 speed while burning.
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Jan 4, 2009
I have a 1st generation MacPro with a Quad Xeon and 5 GB RAM. I need to get a blu ray burner. Does anyone out there know of a good quality burner that I can get for my machine? I've been looking online but I haven't been able to figure out which one is mac compatible.
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Mar 16, 2010
After a DVD burner for the second bay of my Dual 1.25 that will work out of the box...
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Nov 8, 2009
an External Blu-Ray reader/burner for my computer and I assume it's best to have FireWire for my Mac but also i want USB since I'll use it on a Windows machine that has USB only.I have considered the below drive by OWC which is 12x
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Nov 4, 2010
can someone help me to find a free cd burner , I tried a few but nothing works on my MBP 17 i7 .
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Oct 4, 2010
does the macbook allowed user to copy dvds? like does it have an dvd burner.
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Jul 10, 2007
I have an EMac g4-255mb(just got 2 (256mb chips) never put in yet)-60gig running 10.4 (just got it) and now just got iLife 06) and then I have an 80gig external hard drive. So its like 140gig of room. But I only have a cd burner and dvd drive. Would it be cheaper to install an new internal drive? Or pay more for the external(cause there is no hard installation). What drives would work? And I have a $200 dollar gift card to bestbuy or futureshop.
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May 2, 2008
I have this memorex lightscribe external burner. before I open it i want to make sure it is MAC compatible. I want to burn CD and eventually dvdsDoes not mention Mac anywhere on the box. I have a 24" mac desktop
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Jul 21, 2009
I was hoping you could recommend me a Blu-Ray burner for my new Mac Pro.
From what I've found, these are the top 2 choices:
http://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/
and
(URL)
The second one is external - I prefer internal that I can drop into the Mac Pro. But it does have LightScribe - nice! Maybe there's something out there that is internal AND has LightScribe? Who here has installed a blu-ray burner into their Mac Pro?
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Sep 13, 2009
I know the Mac Pro uses a smaller bezel for their tray loaders, so would regular retail drive work? I know I can remove the bezel, but if I don't have to I won't.I'm looking at the Pioneer 8x burner right now.
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Sep 29, 2009
Anyone have a BD Burner that they use on their Mac Books or Mac Book Pro? I am interested in getting one to backup my images, I am a photographer and shoot in the RAW format. I also just purchased a new camera, where the uncompressed images are anywhere from 20-30MB a photo. So projects tend to be quite large.
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