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Q: Imac will not accept DVD's or CD's

When I insert a DVD or CD, after about 10 secs it spits it right back out. If I continue to insert the DVD or CD right after it ejects, the computer will finally accept it on about the 6th time and everything works fine. Is this a drive issue or software? any ideas?

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Imac, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Aug 2, 2008 12:07 PM

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  • by Grafs,

    Grafs Grafs Jun 15, 2012 9:13 AM in response to Noizeof77
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    Jun 15, 2012 9:13 AM in response to Noizeof77

    How do you repair disk permissions for mac hd?

  • by Rogerdon,

    Rogerdon Rogerdon Jun 15, 2012 9:42 AM in response to Grafs
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    Jun 15, 2012 9:42 AM in response to Grafs

    Open Disk Utility in Applications/Utilities, select your HD, click Repair Disk Permissions. Hopefully this fixes your issue, it didn't fix mine. I ended up buying an external Samsung SE-208AB/TSBS.

  • by VenimK,

    VenimK VenimK Jun 15, 2012 10:26 AM in response to Rogerdon
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    Jun 15, 2012 10:26 AM in response to Rogerdon

    Allready did that, most off the time, it reads the CD/dvd but don ' t reginizes any data on the CD/DVD

     

    VenimK

  • by animal954,

    animal954 animal954 Jun 20, 2012 10:23 PM in response to pjensen4
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    Jun 20, 2012 10:23 PM in response to pjensen4

    Repair disk permissions did not work for me, neither did putting the whole thing on its side

  • by PeedOffBoy,

    PeedOffBoy PeedOffBoy Jun 22, 2012 3:15 PM in response to pjensen4
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    Jun 22, 2012 3:15 PM in response to pjensen4

    Nothing works, the SuperDrive is about as super as Super Gran!

     

    I've read up on the hardware, talked to IT tech, and its poor, apple know this, that's why they won't comment.

     

    I love OSX, but, because I'm forced to use their hardware for it, alas, after my iMac shows its age, it'll be back to a desktop PC where I can stroll to PC World for components and maintain it myself.... Which will ultimately mean I'll be using Windows as an OS.

     

    Which is a shame, but, apple have forced me in that direction... Being an apple OSX end user shouldn't be a pain, but it is! :(

  • by Just Jeremy,

    Just Jeremy Just Jeremy Jun 25, 2012 1:40 PM in response to pjensen4
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    Jun 25, 2012 1:40 PM in response to pjensen4

    +1 more upset Apple customer...My 17" Intel Imac is way out of warranty and my optical drive is officially totally useless. Will not accept/eject disks of any format. It literally just stopped a few days ago. I have talked to the Apple store and was warned to expect the repair to cost somewhere between $200-$400 (***??!!!)  I have yet to try the compressed air trick, but I did find numerous external drives in the $30-50 range. If the air doesn't work, I will purchase the external drive. I gotta say after 3 Ipods, 2 Iphones, and now 1 Imac breaking down prematurely (always just out of warranty too)think I have purchased my last Apple product. For the gross difference in price, Apple is far from a superior product IMHO. Perhaps with their record profits (on the backs of Chinese sweat shop workers), a class action suit would send some kind of message.

  • by Daniel A. from G.,

    Daniel A. from G. Daniel A. from G. Jun 26, 2012 1:31 PM in response to pjensen4
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    Jun 26, 2012 1:31 PM in response to pjensen4

    Hi, got the same problem, my iMac Mid 2011 won' recognize any DVD now, I've tried everything, flipped my iMac over, it's very heavy, but still no luck at all it spins and spins and then spits it out. It reads CD's and DVD-R's but no DVD's at all. Tried Diablo 3 DVD and StarCraft2 DVD and World of Warcraft DVD none of them works is the external SuperDrive an upgrade option?

     

    regards

  • by Nanabryant13,

    Nanabryant13 Nanabryant13 Jun 29, 2012 6:55 PM in response to Michael Townsend4
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    Jun 29, 2012 6:55 PM in response to Michael Townsend4

    I had this problem, out of despeation, turned the Mac on it's side, and out fell a nickle.  WOW!  Grandkids!

  • by James Ball1,

    James Ball1 James Ball1 Jul 10, 2012 3:52 PM in response to Nanabryant13
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    Jul 10, 2012 3:52 PM in response to Nanabryant13

    I just took my 24" Intel iMac to a local computer repair place after a bad experience at the Apple Genius Bar (see earlier post). They checked it out and said it was either the optical drive or the connector. Two days later it is good as new. New optical drive for about $250.

  • by empirenero,

    empirenero empirenero Jul 15, 2012 12:08 PM in response to Gerard Surprenant
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    Jul 15, 2012 12:08 PM in response to Gerard Surprenant

    I was having the same issue. Come to find out i had to disconnect the CD in VMWare and My drive is fully functioinal. If you are running VM or any window based virtualization software this could be the issue.

  • by James Ball1,

    James Ball1 James Ball1 Jul 15, 2012 5:08 PM in response to empirenero
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    Jul 15, 2012 5:08 PM in response to empirenero

    I have never used that software. The new drive the local repair place worked perfect immediately.

  • by ckaiserjr61,

    ckaiserjr61 ckaiserjr61 Jul 15, 2012 5:19 PM in response to James Ball1
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    Jul 15, 2012 5:19 PM in response to James Ball1

    What did it cost you to have that done, and why should *I* be expected to pay to have a new CD/DVD drive replaced in what was at the time brand new iMac, (and it has NEVER worked as intended!!!)?????  I know what I WON'T be buying the next time I need to purchase a new computer!

  • by James Ball1,

    James Ball1 James Ball1 Jul 15, 2012 6:23 PM in response to ckaiserjr61
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    Jul 15, 2012 6:23 PM in response to ckaiserjr61

    Mine was several years old. It cost about $250. It only took them two days, too.

  • by funkygy123,

    funkygy123 funkygy123 Jul 25, 2012 7:05 AM in response to pjensen4
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    Jul 25, 2012 7:05 AM in response to pjensen4

    I just had a new optical drive installed in my imac. It worked for about a week and now it's back to the same behavior. Insert a disk and it crunches for a while then it ejects...I am not happy...and I think Apple should fix this. Maybe a class action lawsuit would get their attention? as they seem to be ignoring us out here. I rely on this mac for my living, and its a drag to have to use an old pc to read and write audio discs.

  • by SamGray,

    SamGray SamGray Aug 17, 2012 12:52 PM in response to pjensen4
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    Aug 17, 2012 12:52 PM in response to pjensen4

    I had this exact problem, trying to put a disc in the drive and it feels like it's closed, like there's a disc inside already. (When I knew there wasn't!) but after searching, I found this solution:

     

    http://superuser.com/questions/194613/macbook-optical-drive-blocked

     

    Which says open terminal and type "drutil eject" and it just bloody worked!!

     

    Reccomend at least trying this before anything else, save you a few minutes!

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