Part 1: Apple Internal SuperDrive Doesn't Work Q: Mac SuperDrive not accepting discs puzzle: My Apple iMac 27' doesn't accept any new CDs or DVDs and I tried almost every solution that I can find from google like reseting SMC/PRAM, holding down left mouse button and rebooting, holding down C while rebooting, opening terminal and typing 'drutil eject', etc. Could you give me an efficient way to tack the problem of Mac SuperDrive not reading discs? A: Shut down the Mac; hold down option and turn the Mac on; select the HD Recovery option; once the Recovery Drive has booted, use the menu to run Terminal; from terminal type 'drutil eject', you can hear the whir of the SuperDrive. Note: This Mac solution is only available on Mac OS X Lion. Quicken for mac 2017 upgrade schedule.

Long time ago, I bought an external Apple USB SuperDrive for my MacBook. That Apple prevents the superdrive to be used with Mac models that originally.

If you are a Snow Leopard and below user, please look for other ways. Q: My CD/DVD Drive on my iMac keeps ejecting every CD/DVD when I put a CD/DVD in the drive. It sounds like it tries to read the disc, buy fails finally. I thought maybe my needs to be replaced so that I plugged in an external USB SuperDrive to my Mac. But fortunately, both of them ejected CD/DVD. How to fix this 'CD/DVD drive keeps ejecting on Mac' issue? Run disk utility and repair disk permission.

Choose Go > Utilities. Double-click Disk Utility. Select the volume in the left pane for which you want to repair permissions. Hit the First Aid tab.

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Select the volume to which you want to install the Adobe application. Click Repair Disk Permissions. Delete the configuration file to create a fresh copy. Reset the NVRAM/PRAM and SMC.

Delete the Finder's preference files. Clean the SuperDrive's slot with compressed gas/Vaccum Cleaner. Q: The disc drive in my Mac won't read DVD video discs. It reads blank ones but not video discs with content. It comes up with an error message 'This computer can't read this disc' when I put a DVD video disc into the Mac SuperDrive. A: The simplest solution of this SuperDrive problem is buying an external USB SuperDrive for Mac and later you can upgrade to a new Mac which already have an external to use. Though all of those CD/DVD drive not working solutions are useful, you still will encounter many more unexpected & new SuperDrive not working issues.

So, the once-for-all solution to successfully watch /videos is ripping DVD to Mac with the help of before SuperDrive doesn't work. Part 2: Common Mac USB SuperDrive Not Working Issues and Solutions Q: My iMac doesn't show on my list of devices in Finder or on the desktop when I connect my new Mac USB SuperDrive (external disc drive) to it. The strange thing is that it works on the store's iMac when I took back to the store.

Is there anything I have to in Preferences or software? A: Check your iMac version. If the iMac has a built-in optical drive, Apple USB SuperDrive will not work with computer. BTW, only these Mac computers are compatible with external USB SuperDrive: MacBook Pro with Retina display, MacBook Air, iMac (late 2012), Mac Mini (late 2009) and later. If your iMac is the new 2012 iMacs, try to reset the SMC ( ) and the PRAM (). Q: I upgraded to El Capitan (10.11) on MacBook Air 11 inch and I found that my USB SuperDrive has stopped working. I have reseted SMC and other related things.