CD drive not recognizing cds

under system preferences, click cds & dvds. make sure you have appropriate action selected for when you enter the disc.

does it eject the disc too or just not recognize it?

I am having the same problem. The cd goes in and the fan turns on and it spins but then it stops and ejects itself. I went into the system preferences and changed the settings of what to do when a cd is put into the drive but whatever setting it is on it keeps doing the same thing.

You are not alone.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1677771

Same problem herre.. What shall we do, then????

when I put cd/dvd in to burn photos- it just whirs and then ejects. Up till a few days ago it worked fine. and now it doesn't . I checked Preferences. seems okAY NEED TO KNOW HOW TO FIX-- IS THE OPTICAL DRIVE DEFECTIVE?

Same problem here but I think mine was broken by the guys at the Genius Bar. My hard drive went out about a year and half ago and was replaced. After that my CD drive was scratching CD's. I didn't want to give up my computer again so I procrastinated and took it in about 4 months later and they said a bar had been bent and they had bent it back for me. They tried to tell me it was my fault. The tech guy put in a CD and it took a long while to read but then it showed up. That was the last time it worked. Of course when I got home to upload the music CD's I had purchased since then it wasn't working. I was so disgusted that I haven't gone back. Whenever I put a CD in the drive spins very loudly for about 20 seconds and then spits out the CD. And usually scratches it too. The work around I have been doing is putting CD's into my husband's desktop and then he shares that disk drive over our network so I can transfer files onto my computer. Would love to know if anyone has found out if Apple is fixing this problem (since it sounds like a defective piece of hardware) if the computer is still under Apple Care warranty. Thanks!

Mine was under AppleCare.

They replaced the SuperDrive.

hello,
It's good to hear that they replaced the superdrive, but is the new one working OK?
kostas.

I'm having the same problem, can't read CDs but can read DVDs, double layer DVDs work after a few tries... and this is a late 2007 macbook.

I'm disappointed to say the least, I though Macs were superior quality but this is my first Mac and I've learnt my lesson.

I'm having the same problem. It's a factory/store bought CD, and even more boggling, it's part of a 3 disc series, the first two of which work! I'm confounded...

Glad to see I am not alone, but how sad for all of us.

This is MY first experience with a Mac too. How disappointing for a compute that mocks the PC for so many issues! Can't believe the CD issues...DVDs are fine.

I guess we need our drives replaced!
Merry Christmas

I thought I was alone before reading all this. My MacBook, white 13", is only a month old and it will suck in a CD and 50% of the time it will recognize it. The other 50% it will spin for a second and then pretend it has no CD in it. It will not even eject it. I have to reboot to get it to final say, hey! there is a CD here! If this a not a software problem, I guess the only thing to do is get it replaced. I hate to be without it...

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I just posted a question that comes from the same issue with the optical drive. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1843442&tstart=0
There are a lot of unhappy MacBook users out there with non-functional superdrives.
Now, I am trying to replace mine...unless you want to spend 150.00+, you have to play the ebay game. What a great way to spend hours of time I don't have!

my one month old macbook is taking cd in but not recognizing anythings in the drive. if i hold down the eject button it sounds like it "loads" and starts working

i have similar issues...half the time it will read the disk,the other half it will whirl and then spit it back out.....