• Will These Supedrives Work With the Late iMac 2009? (Running 10.11.6)

    Hi. Will any of these Superdrives work with the late 2009 iMac (which came with the default Hitachi GA11NR model Superdrive):   https://tipidpc.com/viewitem.php?iid=39968770   https://www.olx.ph/item/super...view more
    babowa
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  • Apple usb superdrive is not supported on this mac

    I have an iMac using 10.9.2 and my cd drive is not working so I bought an external usb cd drive.  When I connect to my computer I get "The Apple USB SuperDrive is not supported on this Mac". How do I get it to b...view more
    macguyincali
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  • file storage on DVD size

    Does anyone know of a program or app that:   Can look at a directory with a multitude of files, and automatically select the appropriate files based on the space available on a backup DVD?   I take lots o...view more
    dialabrain
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  • I can't eject the CD from my iMac.

    I can't eject the CD from my iMac.  There is no icon representing the CD on my desktop and the CD is spinning constantlyview more
    Salmon Smoker
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  • Apple Super Drive won't play/open mpg2 in SVCD

    I've been trying to watch home videos my daughter took of our Grandson which my daughter burned onto a cd in mpg2 SVCD format. I'm using my Apple Super Drive and have iMac with El Capitan on I've tried using iTunes, V...view more
    dialabrain
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  • Optical drive not playing CDs or DVDs

    Hi ALL, I have some issues with my iMac that no CD's or DVD's are playing in the optical-drive. Tried the following which is what another person did on the Terminal application:   1 by 1 drutil Status drutil info...view more
    Rudegar
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  • DVD Plays but Audio CD is Ejected

    I recently helped a friend update an early 2008 iMac (20-inch) by upping the RAM to 4GB and installing OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan (he was running Snow Leopard). One of the issues he was having before the upgrade (which h...view more
    littleT154
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  • My iMac graphics card fail?

    ok last week my iMac 27 inch quad core late 2009 graphics card fail it's all pixelated and with square artifacts took itnto the Apple Store near my home in Spain and they told me that a iMac that is older than 5 years...view more
    Switch900
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  • Is There a Way to Adjust the Potentiometer of the Late 2009 iMac's Superdrive?

    Hi. Like in gaming consoles and some PC writers, is there a way to adjust the potentiometer of the CD lens of the Superdrive (Superdrive DVD-lens is working. It can't read CDs but it can burn and read DVDs) to make th...view more
    John Galt
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  • NVRAM Reset

    I’ve been able to borrow a Gateway USB keyboard that is used for PC Windows, however I wanted to know if the same procedure can be accomplished with this keyboard as well?   What would be the equivalent ke...view more
    erin_b1
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  • replace or add an external super drive

    How can I replace or add an external super drive to a 27" late 2009 iMac running OS X El Capitan ?view more
    nabbott
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  • Why is my iMac no longer recognizing Memorex CD-R and DVD-R media that it burned previously?

    So this has happened before to me with other computers and other drives, I've had burners refuse to recognize some brands of blank discs before, but I've never really figured out the issue or had a drive start to refu...view more
    jacval60
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  • Cannot Boot from USB or DVD

    Hello,   I cannot install or reinstall an OS because my Mac won't boot into anything apart from its hard drive. El Capitan boots up OK and I can use the Mac, but I want to reinstall the OS due to errors and I ca...view more
    SurvivalInternational
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  • Disk Drive keeps spitting out DVD's!

    I'm on a brand new iMac machine, and I purchased a Patec 3.0 USB external disk drive from the computer.. it behaves rather oddly though..  I just got a spindle of 15, 4.7 GB DVD-RW's I would like to burn and use ...view more
    Spectralgeth
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  • how do insert a disc into iMac

    this sounds utterly ridiculous, and I'm rather embarrassed to be asking, but how do I insert a disc into my iMac? (I'm way behind the times, and just graduated from an old G5 power pc...eek!view more
    Richard Segedi
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  • vudu - bluray help

    My wife has a 21.5" Mac (Newer one with 4K display) that does not have a disc drive, add that apple doesn't make a drive that supports blu-ray and the problem I'm having is uploading blu-ray movies to vudu.  Is t...view more
    Rudegar
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  • Can't find Macintosh HD drive after failed software installation

    HELP!!!! How do I know if my hard drive is dead & beyond DIY repair?   I reset my iMac and then tried installing the software but the power went out and so the installation failed. I went back on to try and ...view more
    kaz-k
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  • Superdrive won't recognize blank DVD

    Have recently upgraded to El Capitan. Since then, I was trying to export some photos to Disk to put into storage and my DVD burner in my iMac 12.1 will no longer recognize the DVD's when entered into the burner. What ...view more
    rkaufmann87
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  • Blu-ray writer quad-layer info request 2016-Jan

    Hello, all. DVD burner becoming erratic on a 2009 24" iMac (10.9.5), and that's another question (blow out drive w compressed air, use a cleaning disc, it works for one or two data-DVDs then won't accept a blank DVD, ...view more
    woodmeister50
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  • Burning multiple copies of a data CD?

    I need to burn multiple copies of a data CD (50).  Dragging to a burn folder each time is tedious... is there a way I can enter the number of CDs to burn and then mindlessly feed blank CDs into the (external) bur...view more
    dcinpa
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