DVD drive defaults to bootcamp instead of Mac

When loading a CD/DVD, the disc always defaults to the bootcamp side. I need it to run on the Mac side. How do I change this?

Open the Export dialog box and at top centre you'll see a drop down menu that probably reads Email. Change it to Hard Drive. Screen shot below might help

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Hi!
I know it is possible, I looked up google about it but it's pretty difficult to find...
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simon1973 wrote:
I have put in a 500 GB HDD into my MBP 2008. I want to do my Time Machine backups on a 320GB Western Digital external HDD.
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I have a mac laptop g3 powerpc and it came with a cd-rom drive, but i also have a dell(2001) and it has a dvd drive. I wanted to know if i could take the drive from the windows and put it in my mac.

heysup,
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Hi all does anyone know if this will work:
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Alternative is to send the dvd back to apple and get the CD
version.. does anyone know how long this takes?
It took about a week or so when we did it last year for one of
our old G3 iMacs. I think you have probably made the right
choice to get a Mac mini, though. No sense in investing money
in technology that old.
An alternative, though, would be to put the iMac into target
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DVD drive, and install from that other mac onto the iMac.
Another consideration, though, on those old iMacs is that they
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drives. A 10.4.x install, by the time you put a few
applications on the disk, is getting close to filling a 20
GB drive (including swap space, etc.).
Again, you have probably made the right choice. You would
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drive, Mac OS 10.4.x) on the iMac, and, in the end, you
would have a slow computer on which you had spent almost as
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My Macbook Pro has a black screen when running in Bootcamp Windows 7. Since I updated the mac side my windows side now starts up with completely black screen - no prompt, nothing, Cap keys still light up as does mouse and DVD drive seems to run.
Will not show up in safe mode, will not show when started from Windows 7 DVD.
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I've looked at all the online solutions so far and have tried most of them without success. Please help!
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2009 Macbook Pro, 3.06 GHz Intel 2 core, Max 10.6.8.
Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro5,2
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          6 MB
Memory:          4 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
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SMC Version (system):          1.42f4
Serial Number (system):          7302300GANE
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My Latest email back & forth with OWC:
My Mac Pro is 3,1 early 2008. My understanding before purchase was that it would work in Mt. Lion and Windows.
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