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My iMac (Mid 2007) ejects all CD/DVD discs

I have had my 20" 2.4Ghz iMac (Mid 2007) for less than a week, and just the other day it stopped recognizing any and all CD/DVD discs I put into the slot.

It pops in like it should, I hear the drive is "looking at" the disc, and then ejects it. No error message, no icon showing up, nothing.

Just now I am testing my two World of Warcraft DVD discs, which I used successfully to install the game six days ago. They are not recognized.

20" iMac Core 2 Duo (Mid 2007) 2.4 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 26, 2007 11:10 PM

33 replies

Mar 28, 2008 5:04 PM in response to Sportchefen

I am just about to have my SECOND superdrive replaced!
The first one just swallowed any disc you fed it, and the replacement drive started out by spitting every disc out and now it is a swallower too!
So freaking annoying that I have to totally dismantle my set up and cut all my cable ties, plus not have my puter for a week with no real guarantee that I wont be taking it in again in a fortnights time.
Surely this is not a hardware issue...?
My first Mac purchase has been bitterly disappointing!
I have a silver Intel 20" iMac running Leopard (No boot camp - NO windows)

Apr 5, 2008 1:15 PM in response to Sportchefen

It all started yesterday. There was a CD stuck in the drive that just didn't want to come out. I tried ejecting it through iTunes - no luck. I tried ejecting it through my desktop - no luck. I tried ejecting it with my keyboard - no luck. I finally had to reboot and right when the Mac started booting back up I held the eject button down on the keyboard and the CD finally ejected.

Now today, I have the opposite problem - any CD or DVD I put in the drive is immediately ejected. It is making NO attempt to even read the CDs - it just spits them back out. I tried rebooting and it didn't help. In fact, I've tried everything I can think of to keep the CDs in the drive (even holding my hand over the opening but as soon as I take my hand away it spits it back out). I'm at my wit's end.

I'm using a Mac OSX V10.4.11 with a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo.

Apr 5, 2008 2:03 PM in response to Sportchefen

I have posted this on other boards too:

I have another MacBook running 10.5.2 that i have just burnt a test cd-r on...get this it opens fine on the other MacBook and the iMac both running 10.5.2. It appears that none of these machines will open anything burnt pre 10.5.2, but the iMac still won't recognise blank cd-r or DVD+RW. It has gotta be a software issue hasn't it?

Cheers

Lou

My iMac (Mid 2007) ejects all CD/DVD discs