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Jun 15, 2012 9:13 AM in response to Noizeof77by Grafs,How do you repair disk permissions for mac hd?
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Jun 15, 2012 9:42 AM in response to Grafsby Rogerdon,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.
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Jun 15, 2012 10:26 AM in response to Rogerdonby VenimK,Allready did that, most off the time, it reads the CD/dvd but don ' t reginizes any data on the CD/DVD
VenimK
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Jun 20, 2012 10:23 PM in response to pjensen4by animal954,Repair disk permissions did not work for me, neither did putting the whole thing on its side
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Jun 22, 2012 3:15 PM in response to pjensen4by PeedOffBoy,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! :(
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Jun 25, 2012 1:40 PM in response to pjensen4by Just Jeremy,+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.
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Jun 26, 2012 1:31 PM in response to pjensen4by Daniel A. from G.,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
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Jun 29, 2012 6:55 PM in response to Michael Townsend4by Nanabryant13,I had this problem, out of despeation, turned the Mac on it's side, and out fell a nickle. WOW! Grandkids!
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Jul 10, 2012 3:52 PM in response to Nanabryant13by James Ball1,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.
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Jul 15, 2012 12:08 PM in response to Gerard Surprenantby empirenero,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.
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Jul 15, 2012 5:08 PM in response to empireneroby James Ball1,I have never used that software. The new drive the local repair place worked perfect immediately.
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Jul 15, 2012 5:19 PM in response to James Ball1by ckaiserjr61,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!
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Jul 15, 2012 6:23 PM in response to ckaiserjr61by James Ball1,Mine was several years old. It cost about $250. It only took them two days, too.
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Jul 25, 2012 7:05 AM in response to pjensen4by funkygy123,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.
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Aug 17, 2012 12:52 PM in response to pjensen4by SamGray,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!