Optical drive on MacBook Pro has stopped working since upgrade to Mavericks

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Optical drive on MacBook Pro has stopped working since upgrade to Mavericks

I upgraded to Mac OSX 10.9 almost as soon as it was released, but I only discovered two days ago that any optical disk: CD/movie DVD, DL DVD etc that I insert in to my late 2008 MacBook Pro just spins up for a few seconds, then gets ejected.

I really hope Apple have noticed this issue, because there are many other people reporting the same problem. I will have to consider reverting to Snow Leopard if a fix is not released soon.

OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Jan 13, 2014 2:41 AM

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Answer 1

dominic23

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Jan 13, 2014 2:48 AM in response to The Obviator

Reset SMC.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

Choose the method for:

"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".

Best.

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The Obviator Author

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Jan 13, 2014 3:33 AM in response to dominic23

I have already tried an SMC reset, and, as others with the same issue have also reported, it does not do anything.

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Answer 3

Jun 2, 2014 1:44 PM in response to The Obviator

I has the same problem with my Macbook Pro after upgrading to OS X Mavericks. It ruined almost everything! My battery was overused because it has been downloading the entire night. The battery completely stopped working and I have to let a local technician remove it. The optical drive stopped working. Whenever I insert any DVD/CD into it, it just spins a bit then eject it. I called Apple care and they walked me through in resetting the SMC but it didn't fix it. Now they are asking me for a fee to fix it even the issue was caused by the OS upgrade.

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