Disk Drive not working

Hello! Open the system profiler in apps>utilities>system profiler and see if it shows your cd/dvd drive. That's a first start. There may be some options for replacement but you should check the system profiler first to see if it's seeing it at all. Tom

I'm having the exact same problem and when i go into the utilities, there isn't anything about cd's or DVD's does that mean i have to reinstall the drive or something? What do i need to do?

Try going to  menu > About this Mac > More Info... > Hardware > ATA you should then see details of your Optical Drive. E.g:> System Profiler wrote:

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D:

Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D
Revision: A612
Serial Number: CJDL002300WL
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal

What do you see?

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mrtotes

it basically says the same thing as yours just a different serial number and the model is PIONEER DVD-RW-105 and the Revision is A506.

Yeah the CD is set to open with iTunes and the DVD's with the DVD player. I also have it set to show the Cd's DVD's iPod etc. on the desktop. Anything else that could be wrong?
Thanks for helping i really appreciate it.

Still doesn't work under another user. I'll see if i can get a cleaning kit sometime tomorrow and see if that works.

I seem to have the same problem as you have. I checked the discussion, everything is set OK. I put the disk in, and after a few secs it pops out. Did you try what was uggested to you? to clean you CD drive? is it working now? Thanks, Carole

I HAVE THE SAME IMAC W/ SAME SPECS W/ SAME PROBLEM

I TRY TO GOOGLE THE PROBLEM AND NO FIX SO FAR BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH THE SAME IMAC WITH THE SAME PROBLEM JUST AFTER THE LAST OSX UPDATE.

I too have the same problem, which seems to have started after the last update. The optical drive in the System Profiler looks normal. Any suggestions?

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105:

Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105
Revision: A506
Serial Number: *************
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal

My computer won't recognize DVDs anymore either (although the System Profiler acknowledges that the drive is there.) This of course precludes starting up with a DVD, too, so diagnostics and re-installation become tricky as well. Curiously, CDs still appear on the desktop the same as before, so I've been busy backing up the data that wasn't included in my latest DVD back-up on 650 MB CDs.

I've never cleaned the drive before. Any recommendations as to a product or type of product?

I'm awaiting a resolution to this issue along with everybody else.

A drive cleaner that's helped me in the past is a disk with little brushes on it, made by Allsop. However, it's not helping me now.

The problem I have may be different from what's been discussed so far. My drive makes a bit of a buzzing sound, as if the plastic gears are out of alignment. At first it did this a lot, with the drive opening and closing on its own in response to the problem. Now that I've repaired permissions, it only does the buzzing when a disk is inserted. No disks are recognized, and I don't hear the sound of the disk spinning at high speed. Sometimes the disk is spit back out, and sometimes it just sits there, unrecognized.

My drive does not recognize pre-written DVDs anymore but it will read and burn CDs and recognize blank DVDs. This is recent so I am wondering if some software update or installation may have caused this.

Guy