Disable dvd-drive

My dvd drive has been making noises whenever I tap the laptop directly above the drive. It has been doing this for a long time now, but lately it has gotten HIGHLY sensitive and buzzes about once a minute if im at the keyboard. It sounds like maybe its trying to recalibrate something, but I never use it anyways so i'd just like to turn it off. Is there a way to do this?

vendt: It would be possible to disconnect the optical drive's flex cable from the logic board, thus rendering the drive completely inert. But I'm not sure whether, with the connector loosed from the LB, it would stick up too high for the keyboard to fit properly back into place. In that case you would have to remove the drive altogether, or remove it temporarily in order to disconnect and remove the flex cable altogether, then put the disconnected drive back in place. Operating the machine with the drive removed might change the feel of it unpleasantly, but if it doesn't, that may be the thing to do.
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Unix command to disable DVD drive?

My DVD drive on my 20" intel imac is failing to eject the disk. It won't come out. I have done everything like restarting with the mouse held down etc etc. I am going to buy a cheap external DVD writer as a solution. The drive however is making a noise every 10 secs in what I guess is in an attempt to read the disk or eject it? What ever the noise is I want it to stop! Is there a command I can type in the terminal to kill or disable the drive so it quits trying to do what it is doing?
Thanks in advance.
Martin.

Ask at the Unix forum under OS X Technologies. BTW, this Terminal command should eject the disc:
*drutil eject -drive internal*

DVD drive makes some noise like inserting a disc

While I was using MAYA, there was some noise like inserting a disc.
I don't know what the problem is and what can I do to disable DVD drive or clear this noise while using some program ?
It's annoy me so much and I worry about my DVD drive.
Please help me
Thank you
Sincerely,

Did you consider reinstalling MAYA? Try calling the help line, they will be able to help you better.
Here is the link to the contact page:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1073074

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Anyone know if there is a previous itunes version on the Apple site that does not have the CD-disable problem when you install? I'd like to try it. Thanks!

The daemon tools are not a fix-all for this problem. I tried installing them, and all seemed to work fine until re-boot... then no more CD/DVD drive (again).

Is it necessary to disable the internal DVD drive to connect an external DVD drive?

Isit necssary to disable an internal DVDdriver to use an external DVD driver? I have permanently jammed a CD into an iMac (mid 2007) DVD / CD drive and purchased an external LG Mac compatable (at the apple reps advice), but the external is not recognized by my iMac. therefore, does the internal drive have to be disabled, and if so, can it be disabled without taking the machine apart?
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Ed Lynch

Are you still running Leopard as indicated in your profile?
If so, up until Snow leopard (if I remember correctly) there was a patch needed for the OS to recognize an external - my LaCie burner came with it and once I installed it, it worked great. As mentioned though, it still wouldn't show up until you insert a disk. At this point, I doubt that such a patch would still be available as it hasn't been needed for some time.

How can I disable my dvd drive?

DVD is physically stuck and I want to diable the dvd writer

Have you tried going to System Preferences CD&DVD and setting all the actions to Ignore?
There are reported ways to disable the DVD drive by removing the kext file(s) that deal with the DVD. I cannot vouch for any of these as I have not tried them myself
How to Disable the Superdrive on a MacBook Pro | eHow is the easiest, moves one file.
I the above simple solution doesn;t work there is this
How to disable an optical drive - Mac OS X Hints
there re other. Proceed carefully and make a backup of the system before doing these.
regards

Windows 7 GPO - Disable All Removable Media then Re-enable, now CD/DVD drive is inaccessible

Ok, this might be better placed in the Windows 7 forum, but we're having some issues with limiting access to removable media via GPO.
We've set up a GPO for Computer Policy, Admin Templates, System, Removable Storage Access, All Removable Storage classes: Deny all access - Enabled
After finding that this was a bit too restrictive we reset it back to Not Configured (and later Disabled to try and force it) but it seems to break our DVD drives on all Win7 x64 machines (the gpo is limited to apply only to these machines). Instead
of the usual icon in my computer it shows a description of the CD/DVD in the drive and the usual "unknown file type" icon. if you take the cd out it shows the usual cd rom icon, but still gives "access denied"
There is one workaround, and that is to set the GPO back to not configured and manually remove the CD/DVD device via device manager, restart, and allow windows to re-install the device drivers.
This is 100% repeatable by applying the same local computer policy (All Removable Storage classes: Deny all access - Enabled" and restarting the machine.
Has anyone else run into this problem before? And how can we fix it without having to go to every machine to remove the DVD drive from device manager?
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Hi,
after looking on many pages for a solution i always found the same workarounds - but for me deleting the device is no option because you aren't allowed to delete devices without administrative rights. Also I can't expect that our users always have to reinstall
the device.
So i analyzed whats going on in the registry when the key "Deny_All" for blocking RemovableStorageAccess is set to 1 - with the running of gpupdate i realized that Windows is writing a registry key to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE\Device\
named "security". The problem is that windows doesn't delete this key after setting the key "Deny_All" back to 0. Only sometimes it will be deleted, for example when you apply the policy for blocking devices and reverse this setting immediatly without a restart
of windows.
I made a little script which I integrated in the user-gpo (as logon script) for granting access to the removable storage devices:
'****SCRIPT START****
' this script searches for all "security"-keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE\ and deletes them
Option Explicit
Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
Dim oReg : Set oReg = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\default:StdRegProv")
Dim oShell : Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Dim sPath, aSub, sKey, aSubToo, sKeyToo, dwValue
' Get all keys within sPath
sPath = "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE"
oReg.EnumKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, sPath, aSub
' Loop through each key
For Each sKey In aSub
    'Get all subkeys within the key 'sKey'
    oReg.EnumKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, sPath & "\" & sKey, aSubToo
    For Each sKeyToo In aSubToo
        oReg.deleteValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, sPath & "\" & sKey & "\" & sKeyToo , "Security"
        if Err.Number<>0 then
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        end if
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Next
'****SCRIPT END****
The policy for giving access to removable storage looks like this now:
- a logon script is executed which searches for all "security"-keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE\ and deletes them
- the setting "All Removable Storage classes: Deny all access" ist set to "Disabled"
I hope this helps...
Regards
Swanson

ITunes 10.1 installed but it disabled the driver for my DVD player

I installed iTunes 10.5.1.42 on my laptop HP PC and it disabled the driver for my DVDRW player. Before iTunes installation DVD player worked fine. After installation DVD player does not work, and is not see by iTunes or the computer. Device manager shows the player but indicates that the driver has been disabled.
I uninstalled iTunes and the DVD player worked. It also worked with iTunes 10.5.0. But then I reinstalled 10.5.1.42 with the same results--disabled DVD.
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ITunes disabled my DVD drive

I have Windows 8 Professional 64-bit and a LiteON DVD combo drive.
I went ahead and re-install iTunes. At first I didn't notice it disabling my DVD drive until I went ahead and inserted a disc and my computer isn't recongising it. But I went to Device Manager and I discovered that there's a warning symbol on the DVD drive's icon. I went to properties and I got a Code 19 error. I went to the BIOS and my DVD drive is being recognised by computer so I'm certain that the device is still functioning just that the OS isn't recognising it.
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Hired MS Assure to fix my email which would not load. Tech recommended upgrading to 2013 which I did. email works fine but I now have NO access to my CD / DVD drives. I have one built in and one external (usb). USB drive operates
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
try also reset your BIOS setting
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https://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461/en-us
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ITunes Has Disabled My CD/DVD Drive - can anyone help ?

Hi,
I recently bought a 5th Generation iPod Video 30gb, and have some issues with the iTunes software.
I am running a fairly new (4/5 months old) Packard Bell PC with Windows XP Home and have Sonic RecordNow CD burning software.
Here's the problem....
When I tried to load the iTunes software from the CD that came in the box, it allowed me to install it, but then when I double-clicked the icon to launch it, I just got a Windows error message (the type that says windows has encountered an error and needs to close - would you like to send a report to Microsoft Yes/No). iTunes would not load at all.
Also, my CD/DVD drive then disappeared from the system. When I ran a check through System Tools, it said that the drivers had loaded properly, but that a CD/DVD device could not be found.
So, I did a System Restore to a few days before and the drive re-appeared and worked fine.
Next step, I downloaded iTunes from the Apple website. This time everything worked fine. I spent the entire day (much to the annoyance of my wife) transferring CDs to iTunes - no problems - iPod synchronised fine etc.
Then, a day later, I decided to carry on transferring my CD collection, but the CD drive has disappeared again - system tools says that the drivers have loaded correctly, but that a CD device cannot be found (Error 41).
Any ideas - I'd like not to have to do another restore, as I presume I'll lose all the CD data that I've transferred so far. Some other websites have suggested I edit the BIOS to point the system towards the CD drive. Slightly nervous about doing this (if indeed it's the right thing to do anyway) and wouldn't really know how.
Also, I did think about un-installing Sonic RecordNow and re-installing iTunes, but then I look in add/remove programs, it's not there.
I'm at a loss - any help would be greatly appreciated.
I await a response with eager anticipation.
Thanks,
Jon (United Kingdom).

hi Pricey!
Then, a day later, I decided to carry on
transferring my CD collection, but the CD drive has
disappeared again - system tools says that the
drivers have loaded correctly, but that a CD device
cannot be found (Error 41).
for a code 41, probably the best place to start is
with this document:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/
keep us posted.
love, b
Thanks B,
It looks like if this doesn't do the trick, nothing will.
Will let you know how I get on.
Cheers,
Pricey

ITunes disabling CD/DVD Drive

I've tried installing iTunes 7.5 on my laptop and it seems to install fine. Once I restart my computer, however, the CD/DVD has an error. Windows thinks its a driver problem but when I run the diagnostic it says all drivers are up to date.

I have found NOTHING on the web that answers this problem. Toshiba knows about the problem because they have a post on their support site that deals with a "missing DVD drive." Unfortunately, the two solutions they provide do not fix the problem if you want to run i-tunes. You can re-install the driver, and if that doesn't work, you can edit the registry by deleting the upper and lower filters (See toshiba support's link to Microsoft). But then you will have to repair itunes as listed above (which then re-installs the filters in the registry), and the DVD drive is missing or has problems once again. Every time I need the drive, I go through the above process. Then I repair itunes and live without a DVD drive until the next time I need it. Is this mainly a Toshiba Satellite problem?

Itunes disables CD/DVD Drives

Have loaded itunes from the disc and also from the apple website. I am unable to open itunes and every time loaded it diables both my CDR and DVD Drives.

AW ANOTHER PB user. I feel bad for you guys. All Packard Bell PC users are having this issue which leads to me to believe this is a Packard Bell problem.
Dont worry, its an easy fix.
To resolve this behavior, follow these steps:
Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
Locate the UpperFilters value under the following key in the registry:
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
On the Edit menu, click Delete, and then click OK.
Locate the LowerFilters value under the same key in the registry:
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
On the Edit menu, click Delete, and then click OK
Save this list because you do use a Packard Bell and it could happen again. Good Luck. If this does not work, I have another tried and tru method of fixing it.

Ipod/Itunes software disables my CD/DVD drive.

Guys can anyone help me with this piece of crap I bought my wife for Christmas.
WE installed the software initially correctly and it worked although an error came up with itunes. We have imported a heap of CD's and downloaded a stack of songs to the ipod.
However when we next started the computer the DVD drive was not recognised, the computer thought it was damaged or not connected. We uninstalled the ipod software but the only way to get the drive back was to restore the computer to a previous configuration. Then it wouldn't load the software again, itunes kept stuffing up. Fixed this by downloading the latest version of the software and itunes was fine but DVD drive has disappeared again which means we still can't use the stupid ipod.
Can anyone help. I don't really want itunes or quick time player as my default players either. I also have Windows Media Player and other DVD burning software loaded if that may cause problems.
Gavin

there's usually numbers after that.
the cruder technique involves a similar sort of edit ... basically it involves just deleting the upper and lower filters altogether. see this MS document:
(MS) CD-ROM access is missing and messages cite error Code 31, Code 32, Code 19, Code 39, or Code 41 after you remove Easy CD Creator in Windows XP
(this is actually what Packard Bell was recommending on its support site for a while.)
if you try the cruder technique, you may get the following message next time you try to launch itunes:
"Warning! The registry settings used by the itunes drivers for importing and burning CDs and DVDs are missing. This can happen as a reseult of installing other CD burning software. Please reinstall iTunes."
if you get that, rather than reinstalling itunes, try a "reboot and repair".
reboot the PC (very important), and then do a repair install of itunes.
go into your Add/Remove programs. select itunes, click "Change" and then click "Repair".
(you might also want to check to see if your other CD burning software on the PC still works. if it doesn't, head to Packard Bell, or the software manufacturer's website for instructions ... i believe that Packard Bells come with RecordNow 7.0.x, and that might be linked to your backup utilities, so it's probably worth checking.)

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