DVD or CD won't display or appear on hard drive list of devices

I insert a new CD-R or DVD-R I get no response or recognition that it's there--no icon appears on the desktop or anywhere else I can find. The only way I've found to eject one is to go open Disk Utility and Eject. In Disk Utility the only option I'm given is to erase (these unused discs). Please assist; I'll gratefully receive suggestions!

There's no indication of a CD in the Finder's sidebar or on it's main screen, which shows a number of folders labeled Music, Library, Desktop, etc. which in turn have no CD DVD icons inside; there's no General tab in the Finder's preferences. Opening the CD & DVD pane of System Preferences yields a list of 5 question of what to do when a CD or DVD is inserted, the first two for blank discs are set on Open Disc Utility--should a different choice, such as Open iDVD, Finder, Another Application be made?

Similar Messages

  • Create a dvd from past project and event moved to external hard drive

    i have version 7.04 DVD. Moved several projects and events to external hard drive. How do I go to "existing dvd projects" and create a dvd from a completed past dvd project? do i have to move the project and event back to the iMac hard drive..thanks

    A iDVD project contain links to the various elements you have used to make the project. Unless you have actually saved the project as an iDVD Project Archive (an option under FILE in iDVD) which can be a very large file because it actually contains all the elements used in the project with adjusted links, simply moving a project (and/or elements used in the project) breaks all the necessary links. Sometimes you can reestablish the links (iDVD usually gives you a chance to try), but it can't always be done.
    Good luck.

  • IMac won't recognize Maxtor OneTouch 2 Hard Drive

    I've been using a new Maxtor hard drive to store video for use with iMovie. All was working fine and I was able to store and recall video several times from the drive. Then the iMac stopped recognizing the drive. I've downloaded and installed the newest driver from Maxtor, fixed permissions and deleted the two extensions as recommended by Maxtor on their website. System profiler recognizes something is connected to the Firewire, but can't recognize it - and it does not even show up when using disk utilities. The drive seems to spin up fine when I turn it on. Only thing I notice differently on the drive itself is that the blue one-touch button used to blink by alternating between the top half and bottom half. Now it blinks faster and does not alternate between top and bottom. I don't care about recovering the video that's on the drive - I can replace that. I just want to know if there's a fix - or if it's just a bad drive. Any suggestions?

    Came home and my computer was off after leaving it
    on. Rebooted and now the keyboard won't do anything,
    the ext. hard drive won't start. I can't insert the
    repair disk because the keyboard won't operate.
    Hmmm, what do you think I should try?
    hanks,
    Bill
    imac flat panel
      Mac OS X (10.4)  
    If one of you finds a solution for this problem, please let me know. I have exactly the same problem
    Hans
    iMac intel   Mac OS X (10.4.10)   Boot Camp
    MacBookPro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

  • A205-S5000 won't boot. Says possible hard drive problem

    Laptop won't boot and says possible hard drive problem. Need to recover
    personal reports and data, so thinking of removing the drive and using an enclosure
    so the data, if still good, can be extracted from the drive by another computer. Question
    is, will I be able to create the restore cd's from the hard drive if the hard drive is not the
    boot drive ie; attached to a 2nd computer via usb and enclosure. 
    If it's not possible, I can try to create cd's from a different model laptop (toshiba), same vista os but
    what about the product key?  I will try to reinstall the bad drive and try a reboot to recovery mode but
    I doubt that is going to work or complete. Idea was to get a new drive and try to install recovery disks.

    Satellite A205-S5000
    Recovery discs must be from an identical model. If you can't burn them from that computer, best to order them
       Order Toshiba Recovery Media 
    The restored Windows is pre-activated.
    -Jerry

  • My MacBook Air displays no wifi on hard drive, now after shutting down, it won't turn on at all

    Started up computer this morning and no wifi, so I clicked on diagnostics, and it said no wifi on hard drive. I could not even click "turn wifi on" in system preferences. I then shu down computer to try and start all over, but now it won't even turn on at all.
    A virus maybe??? Please help!!

    Reset PRAM.  http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4405
    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".
    If this does not help, contact Apple.
    Best.

  • Elements 6.0 won't run from my external hard drive?

    So I had Photoshop Elements 6.0 installed on my laptop. Long story short, my laptop died. I removed the hard drive, put it in a case and turned it into an external. When placed into another working laptop, Elements runs just fine. However, when I hook it up as an external, it refuses to run. Because I didn't make an icon for PSE on my desktop, I have to go into Program Files and under PSE 6.0 and find the application icon for it and double click. A message pops up saying "Licensing for this product has stopped working. - You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for help."
    What gives?

    dj_paige wrote:
     If you take the hard drive and install it into a different computer and make this hard drive the system drive (i.e. the drive where the operating system is installed) then everything on that drive should work properly. If you take the hard drive and attach it to a computer that already has a system drive, nothing on that hard drive will work.
    Mr Ellis had a more lucid explanation of this, but I'll add a bit to both of your treatises, hopefully this will add clarity, but who knows, anything can happen.
    The >> BIOS << of a computer is responsible for the "boot order" of the machine. That is where the computer gets its instructions about where to look for the OS. If you summarily stuff a random HDD into a machine and expect it to boot from it, in most cases you will be disappointed. Since the drive didn't exist before, it likely won't appear first in the boot order, and gets ignored. So, to use any random HDD, you first would have to go into the BIOS and place it first in the boot order, then the computer would use the OS it found there to begin the session.
    The trouble is, Windows takes note of hardware changes, and might ask you to reactivate Windows, when it realizes it is no longer in the original computer. Obviously the original hardware manifest is on the HDD being transported, and would be dramatically different from the hardware environment of the new machine.
    In most cases, Windows will not perform up to expectations if it isn't reinstalled into the new host machine.
    However you can retrieve the catalog file from the laptop HDD and place it in the new computer, and also copy the "My Pictures" folder to it. Since, in this case both the laptop "My Pictures" and desktop "My Pictures" are both likely on their respective "C:/" drives, in all likelyhood PSE would be able to open the catalog successfully.
    I should add that in the case of running the OS from an external HDD, the first choice in the computer's boot order must be set to, "boot from USB device"!

  • IMac G5 (10.3.9) display died. Saved hard drive as external disk. Can't import bookmarks from Firefox 2.0.0.2 to use on Mac Mini (10.4.11).

    My G5 ran OSX 10.3.9 (highest functional version for that hardware). My Mac Mini (core solo) runs OSX 10.4.1.1 or thereabouts. I don't like the way any other browser works on the Mini, so I want to continue using Firefox, which was my default browser on the iMac, and I had years and years' worth of bookmarks on the iMac that I hope I don't have to rebuild one at a time. The iMac crash involved the display; the hard drive is completely functional and is in a new external drive case. The Apple Store folks said they're not allowed to work on such an old machine and likely it couldn't be repaired anyway. So, I have Firefox and presumably all its bookmarks (and maybe bookmarks backups) on the external hard drive, but the version of Firefox I copied to the Mac Mini does not appear to include any of my bookmarks, and the Firefox web site instructions for restoring Bookmarks from Firefox to Firefox don't address this older version. (I've even tried opening Firefox on the external drive and all I get is the 'clean slate' version with none of my old bookmarks.) How do I restore bookmarks from one version of Firefox to the same version of Firefox, just on a different, newer OS?

    Firefox 2 versions use the file bookmarks.html to store the bookmarks.
    See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox
    See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
    With Mac OS X 10.4 you can use Firefox 3.5 or 3.6
    * http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
    * http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html
    *http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html
    *http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/system-requirements-v3.html

  • Ibook g4 won't go past gray screen, hard drive making whirirng noises

    I think I'm in pretty serious trouble here...
    I left my 2-yr old ibook g4 running last night downloading a couple of torrents, and woke up in the middle of the night because it was making a loud whirring noise. I tried to close everything, but found that it was frozen. So I just powered it off. I've never had it freeze on me, or otherwise had any problems with it before.
    When I turned it on this morning, it would make the initial startup chime, but would not go past the grey screen with the apple. I tried several times, with a couple of slightly different results. The first time I got the apple with the circle underneath. The second time, I got no apple, but the circle with a line through it. And the final time, its just been the apple. And all the while, the hard drive is making a really ill sounding whirr.
    I read another post about trying to boot from the install CD, so I inserted the CD & pressed c, but nothing happens, and now the CD won't eject.
    Is it possible that it overheated? I got an e-mail about the battery recall, but according to my serial number, mine wasn't one that was being recalled.
    Please help!
    iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

    Haven't had any replies yet, but I do have some progress to report...
    I was able to eject the Panther Install CD1 after all (pressed the eject button immediately after I powered on). Have tried booting from it a couple of times, to no avail. I was, however, able to boot it from my friend's Tiger Install DVD. I went into Disk Utility, as I have read elsewhere and tried to repair my hard disk using that, but got the following error:
    "Repair disk failed. Could not unmount disk"
    Probably a stupid question, but is it because its not the correct operating system?
    I still don't know why it won't boot from my Panther CD.
    I have tried to boot in Safe Mode, but all I get is a little folder icon that alternately flashes the finder icon & a question mark.
    I purchased my ibook online when I was still living in Canada, but its no longer under warranty and I didn't purchase the protection plan. I am currently living in rural Japan, with absolutely no Apple Stores anywhere remotely close to where I am.
    I've also seen elsewhere that I could probably just get a new hard drive, which is fine as I could use the extra space anyway, but does this mean I lose everything that's on my current hard drive??
    If anyone has any suggestions, it'd much appreciated!
    iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

  • My pictures won't show up on my Hard Drive when I try to view them from my MacBook Pro

    I just came back from a trip and have been trying to get my pictures off my iPhone and other camera to put on my external hard drive (it's about 17 GB, so I don't want to waste the space by keeping them on my MacBook). I transferred all the pictures from my phone to iphoto and then to my Hard Drive, and they showed up fine. I had to use the family PC though to get the pictures off of my camera and then transfer them to the same folder on my Hard Drive.
    After having consolidated everything, I plugged my hard drive back into my MacBook to view my pictures, but although the folder was there, it appeared empty. I was really worried I had lost all my pictures, but that wasn't the case. When I plugged the hard drive back into the PC they were all there.
    I tried taking the folder off the Hard Drive and putting it on my desktop. This worked- all the pictures were back. I didn't want to leave it there though, because they take up so much space, so I deleted the old folder on the Hard Drive and put that folder back. That seemed to work- I was able to see all the pictures again. However, when I plugged the Hard Drive back into my MacBook this morning, the pictures were gone again in the same way *** before.
    I am really baffled as to what's going on here. I was hoping someone could tell me how I can keep the pictures on my Hard Drive and be able to view them there.

    This is true of course, but doesn't cover the situation where some files are in the iTunes Media folder and others are on an external drive. In my case I keep my music in the Media folder and all my films on an external drive (there are too many to have on the internal drive). In iTunes 11, and before, it was easy to add those external files by holding down the alt/opt key while dragging to the sidebar. In iTunes 12 this is no longer possible. There are several workarounds: use TuneSpan to move the file after it's been added; delete the file from the Media folder and empty the trash then use iTunes Get Info which will report the file is missing and allow you to locate it; constantly switch the Add to iTunes toggle on and off as required. All of these require a lot more work than just holding down the alt/opt key while adding.
    It constantly gets harder.

  • Won't let me copy to hard drive post power surge

    Ok, to make a long story short, I hope, I had an electrical fire (everyone's ok) that involved and destroyed my laptop's power cord and as part of that fun I seem to have had a power surge that has reset some of the defaults on my computer but not all. Some of the folders I created prior to the surge are gone, etc. The only real problem is that the permissions on my internal hard drive seem to have been reset. Below are the things it will and will not allow me to do.
    -- I cannot copy files from a flash drive, cd or external hard drive to the internal hard drive. I get that circle with a line through it. Clicking and dragging, copy/paste, nothing works.
    -- I can move stuff that is already on the internal hard drive from folder to folder.
    -- I can save email attachments to the internal hard drive.
    -- I can copy stuff from internal the hard drive to a flash drive, cd or external hard drive.
    -- I can read the files on flash drives, cds or external hard drives, such as a movie file, just fine, they run without a glitch. The peripherals did not suffer any resets as a result of the fire/power surge. When it happened the computer shut down automatically and I think that saved the accessories from being damaged because the computer is the only thing that showed any changes after it happened.
    And before someone asks, yes, I checked, I have 40 GB of HD space so it's not a space issue.
    I right clicked on MAC HD and did the Get Info and looked at the details of the permissions on various files and tried shifting some of those around but even though it says Read and Write it still won't let me copy to the internal drive from other sources. Interestingly when I got to the User file it was marked Read Only but changing it to Read Write didn't help. Something I did once worked but then it stopped working so I have no idea what it was. I put everything back the way it was. Could somebody please help me? My computer is old and dieing a slow painful death but if I can make it last a little longer that will make my life so much easier. Please let me know if you need any system info or anything.
    *Thank you!!*
    PS. I'm not posting this on the peripheral thread because the problem isn't really the peripherals, it's the system not wanting to play nice with others, so that's why I put this over here.

    Hi. It's not a dumb question, cause if it is then my answer is really stupid, what's a repair permission? lol I don't know what that is so I guess the answer is no, though I can guess from the name it's a program to fix permissions if the files get messed up? I knew how to change the permissions in Get Info but past that I was getting into things I don't know so I figured it was time to ask for help or I'd be on here asking how to un-erase a hard drive. jk So how would I do that and is there anything else I should do?
    Sorry if my initial post was a bit defensive. I had a moderator give me flak over some minor thing on a post once and I was supremely frustrated with this problem. Sorry if it came out kinda angry. I appreciate any help you can give me.

  • I have a mac Book that will not open DVD's of Business Presentations.  I had my hard drive taken in to the Mac Store and had a new hard drive installed.  Since then I cannot open DVD's.  What is the application that I need, and the process. Tks

    I have a mac book that will not open up DVD's recorded with a presentation.  I install the disc in a HP / windows 7 and it works fine.  I had my hard drive replaced and since then I cannot open up DVD's.  Was there a application that did not get installed?  And if so what is the process.

    You need DVD Player. It should be in your Applications folder. If it is in there go to System Preferences>CDs & DVDs and for "When you insert a video DVD" make sure DVD Player is selected.

  • Macbook won't boot. Has my hard drive failed?

    I installed Firefox because a company I was buying something from said their checkout didn't work with Safari. Then about 2 minutes after using Firefox the whole computer froze with the spinning disk. After a while I powered down by holding down the power switch.
    Now when I start up, I get stuck on the grey screen. I inserted the installation disk and tried to get to disk utility but it gets stuck.
    I also tried to install OS X 10.4.9 from the DVD, but when I get to the Select a Destination page, there is no destination volume to install the OS to.
    If my hard drive has failed is it possible to put a new one in myself?

    Have been trying to reconnect an external G-Drive to my G5 in order to access itunes, pictures and other things. Connecting by Firewire doesn't seem to enable either machine to recognise the other. Went to Disk Utility to try to remount the G-Drive. Couldn't remount so tried Verify Disk. Verify Disk said there was an error so tried Repair Disk. Repair Disk gives the following message:
    Verify and Repair disk “G-DRIVE”
    Checking HFS Plus volume.
    Checking Extents Overflow file.
    Checking Catalog file.
    Invalid sibling link
    Volume check failed.
    Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
    1 HFS volume checked
    1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
    What's going on? Have I lost everything? The music and pictures are only on the G-Drive because the capacity of the G5 (160Gb) was too small.

  • I want to purchase iMac i7 and want to know if my pc based LG dvd player (usb) is compatible ? also my external Hard Drive (usb) is it compatible with iMac?

    wiil my PC extermnal dvd player and external hard drive be compatible with iMac ore do I have to by all new stuff?
    Can data be recovered from Hard drive and transfered to new iMac simply?
    Thank you for your time and consioderation,
    depending on this answer will decide if i change over to iMac or not
    Pierre

    All USB drives should be compatible hardware-wise. If the drive is formatted NTFS, then you can copy from it, but not write to it. If it is formatted FAT or exFAT, then you can both read and write.

  • Yoga 2 Pro won't recognize my Seagate external hard drive

    I have a Yoga 2 Pro that won't recognize my Seagate Backup Slim 2TB USB 3.0 external hard drive. 
    I ordered one from Amazon and it didn't recognize immediately when I plugged it in. The disk drive shows up in Devices and in Device manager with the Yellow caution triangle, but it never shows up in drives under my computer or in Disk Management (Where you change partitions, etc.)
    So I ordered a replacement from amazon, I thought it was broken. I had tried it in a different computer and the same thing happened so I assumed it was the drive. On a whim I tried it on the alternate machine again except this time I bypassed the USB hub and plugged it directly into USB 2.0, it worked!
    I installed a Paragon HFS+ software (it's for Mac Only Seagate drives to work with windows, even though this drive is NOT Mac only) and the installation failed, and my computer started messing up. It wouldn't completley power off nor restart. It just hung at the shutting down screen indefinitely. 
    Finally, I let the computer die, turned it back on, plugged in the hard drive and it worked. But I had already ordered the replacement. So I had to return the original and go tthe replacement and now it won't read at all. 
    Since I plugged it in, my computer will NEVER shut down, it will just sleep unless the battery dies, it won't restart either, it'll just hang at the restarting screen. 
    The drive still won't work, and the touchscreen doesn't work sometimes after a reboot. (Because I have to force shut it off everytime I want it off.)
    I went into power settings and turned everything on max power (To help my battery die faster) and even changed the USB power option thing to disabled. I still don't know how I got it to work that ONE time and now I'm stuck. Any help or advice?

    Oh I also had a message that came up when I tried to reconnect it to my comptuer. This is what the message stated:
    The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.
    and my only options I have are
    Initialize..., Ignore, Eject
    what are my options of getting my data restored? I don't care so much about the drive, I am concern about my 2TB of data on there. Please anyone help me with this!!!!! I am open to suggestions to get my data back.

  • Time machine won't let me include external hard drive in backup

    My memory was full on our computer so I got an external hard drive to move over our iphoto library to (I have a large iphoto library ~22,000 pictures that continues to grow).  For discussion purposes I'll call this - IPhoto HD.
    I also have another external hard drive that we've had for quite some time that I use as our time machine backups.  (Time Machine HD).
    I copied over my iphoto library to the new external HD (IPhoto HD).
    I then went into my time machine under settings and wanted to make sure that the IPhoto HD was being backed up on the Time Machine HD.  (after I got verification of this I was going to delete the iphoto library from our computer to free up some space).
    When I go into time machine under options - the Iphoto HD is greyed out - and it won't allow me to delete it from the "do not back up" list.  (however the Time Machine HD is not greyed out - I could delete it if I wanted to).
    I tried searching for the answer in the forums and couldn't figure it out.  I did verify that the format of the IPhoto HD is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
    I should note that both external Hard drives are WD My Book for Mac 2TB.  Not sure if that makes a difference.
    Thanks in advance for your assistance.

    Sorry, but Time Machine does not back up reliably, if at all, to most network drives, except Time Capsules or a shared drive on another Mac running Leopard or Snow Leopard on the same local network.
    Here's the criteria they must meet: Disks that can be used with Time Machine. And be careful here: just because some 3rd-party hardware claims to support Time Machine doesn't necessarily mean that Apple supports it, or that it will work in all circumstances.
    The messages indicate that Time Machine found the volume, but couldn't write to it. That may be some sort of sharing or permissions error, or it may be that the device doesn't support all the things Time Machine requires, per the link above.
    Are you sure that it's compatible with Snow Leopard? Some NAS devices that worked with Leopard didn't seem to work with Snow Leopard, at least when it first came out.
    You may need to check with LaCie or the place you got it.

Maybe you are looking for