Disc drive broken. I think

I'm having problems with my system a lot lately, i really enjoy my ps4 and I am well aware that all products have the occasional fault, but with my ps4 it continues to eject and not accept discs. I've tryed all methods that i have found on youtube and the forums and have no luck. I am with in warranty with sony and my retailer, should I get a replacement or do any readers of this know an alternative fix for the disc drive problem. Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

It sounds as though you've tried everything so as it's within the warranty period I'd suggest you get it replaced or repaired.

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Hello, Welcome to the support community
You could try using your iBook as a FireWire drive to access your content. It would require a FireFire 400 to 800 lead, which will go between your iBook and MacBook This is called FireFire Target Disk Mode
Here is some information to help you
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
The only other way would be to remove the iBook's Hard Drive and place it into an external casing, allowing the drive to become an external USB drive.
Such as this http://www.amazon.com/HDE-Hard-Drive-Case-Enclosure/dp/B001AAVC2E/ref=sr_1_1?ie= UTF8&qid=1348662507&sr=8-1&keywords=2.5+ide+usb+hard+drive+caddy
They can be ordered from, places like Amazon or any good electronic retailer.
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I just got my macbook and from the very start whenever I insert a disc it makes a noise like its popping and breaking internally. the disc will play fine, but the sound is SO wrong that its worrying me. Has anyone else had this problem? Was it just something wrong with the disc drive?

I think what your hearing is the drive sorting itself out, mine makes quite a racket when you first put a disc in but its fine, i think it is standard across the range. To make sure it would be worth comparing to a friends or listen to one in a shop.
Cheers.

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I am running mac OSX 10.5.8 and need to upgrade to icloud.....I know I need to purchase a later operating system but what do I need to do and how??
Also my disc drive is broken and any upgrades/updates will need to be done online....

Lion:
We need more info about your Mac to see if it will even be capable,
So we know more about it...
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, report OSX version, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware> and report this upto but not including the Serial#...
version 10.7.3
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.21f4
You'll need to buy SL/10.6 first & get it to 10.6.8, then get Lion... if you can run it. But then you'd need another Mac with a good Disc Drive & Firewire on both.
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256

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Got a macbook 10.4.1 need to upgrade but the disc drive is broken - any suggestions?

haha i just remebered that there´s a little trick you can use..
look out for someone ( e.g. a friend) who bought osx lion in the mac app store, ask him/ her to login at your mac and download osx lion again on your device, it´s free to download it more than one time, you don´t have to buy it twice

I tried to update my macbook pro, the screen is now frozen. My track pad hasn't been working for awhile and my disc drive is broken. IS there anything that can be done without buying a new laptop. It was bought in 2009

My track pad has not been working properly for awhile and my disc drive it damaged. I went to update my macbook pro to maveric and it is now frozen and not allowing me to click anything. Is there anything that can be done to fix this without buying a new one? Its from early 2009

ShelbyMackenzieLynne,
when you say that your disc drive is damaged, do you mean your MacBook Pro’s hard disk drive, or do you mean its SuperDrive (the CD/DVD drive)?
When you’d updated your MacBook Pro to Mavericks, did the installation succeed, and subsequently freeze up? Or did it freeze up during the Mavericks installation?
Which version of OS X was installed on your MacBook Pro before you’d installed Mavericks?
Are you currently able to boot into the Mavericks recovery partition? To see if you can do so, hold down a Command key and the R key while starting up your MacBook Pro.

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Old MacBook 1.83 GHz with a disc drive that seems dysfunctional. It actually did not read any CDs or DVDs, and was recently replaced by a third party warranty company. When I received the computer after the warranty work, it read CDs again and allowed me to boot from the MacBook restore disc. I erased my hard drive in anticipation of reinstalling Tiger. During the verification of the install disc, it spit an error message at me saying the disc was dirty or smudged, suggested that I remove it and clean it, and then try again. I did this, and received the same message. The disc looks sparkly clean with no scratches or fingerprints. I then chose to ignore the warning and install anyway. Install eventually failed and asked that I restart the process.
The warranty repair noted that there was a mounting bracket that was broken and it was not covered. THe note explained that the tech was going to try and complete a makeshift repair that allowed the drive to work. I suspect that there is something wrong SOMEWHERE (who knows where) related to the optical drive that is preventing me from successfully reading the disc and installing the software. On another note, the drive will NOT start up from a retail Tiger DVD either. (For reference, I was initially using the 2 discs that shipped with the MacBook for the reinstall.) I called a friend, who is quite knowledgeable on this and recommended I turn the Macbook into a firewire drive (T key at startup) and use a different Mac to read the disc and install the software directly to the now empty MacBook. That did not work either. Once I got to the install screen and allowed to select a volume to install Tiger to, it would not allow me to use the MacBook saying it could not install because it was unable to startup using Mac OS X.
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I'm usually really good with this kind of stuff, but I'm stumped and excruciatingly frustrated.

I have a very similar problem: white 2006 MacBook with a bad optical drive, had to replace internal hard drive, cannot figure out how to use machine-specific system restore discs to install the OS on the internal. I've been puzzling over this, and here's what I think I've discovered:
Problems being:
* Can't use retail Tiger disc, because it will not install on an Intel MacBook. (From what I've read, there are no standalone retail Tiger discs for Intel machines.)
* Installing via FireWire target mode from on other machines wouldn't work, because other models won't boot from these machine-specific Software Restore discs.
* Can't put disk images of the install discs on an external drive and install from there (at least I don't think that will work).
Potential solutions left, as far as I can tell:
* Create bootable partition on external hard drive. Using Disk Utility on another machine, "Restore" the installation disks to this external HD partition. Boot MacBook from this ext. HD partition, and then install from those images onto internal HD.
* Buy Leopard retail disc, boot other machine with it, and using FW target mode, install on the MacBook internal HD.
* Get an external optical drive or replacement internal drive.
In my situation, all three remaining solutions involve a purchase, which I'd like to avoid (good money after bad). But if any of them work for you, good luck!

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Thank you for working this through with me.
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i'm on a macbook g4 15" with 10.4.11
i've been having a problem with my disc drive for awhile. I accepted a while ago that it was probably just physically broken, but I noticed recently that when I insert any sort of disc, whether it be a pristine DVD or crappy wav. CD that it does seem to read the disc and everything, yet it spits it out after about 15 seconds and never mounts an image or anything. I'd appreciate any help, because if I can't fix this, I may have to buy a new computer, which I'd rather not do on a college student budget.
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Welcome to the Apple discussions.
Here's a step-by-step guide to replace the optical drive: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/PowerBook-G4-Al-15-Inch-1-5-1-67-BT-2-0-LR/64 . Click on optical drive removal.
If you have the 1.67Ghz Powerbook with dual layer drive and hi-rez screen (Oct 2005 and later), here is a replacement optical drive: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Panasonic/MMINISL8XDL/
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