Holy Moly - My drive has gone!

Every time I put anything (old CD, new CD, DVD) into my cd drive, the computer kind of whirrs a bit, ponders, then spits them right back out at me without recognising its existence. This is starting to annoy me as this problem has suddenly just occurred over the course of a weekend.
After a period of time of not really using my CD drive much, I stuck a DVD in it the other week and found that it was working perfectly fine. A few days later, I tried to copy some songs across from an audio CD. iTunes managed to get about three songs across, but then certain songs would not copy and would end up locking up the whole computer. A few days after THAT I tried burning a CD. This caused my computer to freeze up again, and when I finally got the burned CD out of the machine, only half the songs played on a CD player.
I then went away for a weekend, and now when I stick anything back in, it just spits it right back out at me.
Anybody have any ideas as to what could be causing this and, more importantly, how to stop it? I have already had a look in the forum and tried various suggestions, including: OnyX, deleting finder preferences, blowing into the drive. None of these seems to have had much effect.
Hmm.
Thanks guyzz.
(I am on a flat-screen iMac, 10.3.9, but to the best of my knowledge, I don't think I have a Superdrive)

i have a totally different issue whereby from brand new i updated the firmware and it doesnt recognize any brand of blank CD that i put in it, despite my emac rexognising them. At the moment I cannot burn to CD/DVD because only disk utilities recognises the disk is there and labels it a matsushita even though they are Sony CD's.
any thoughts?

Similar Messages

My iPhone USB driver has gone missing

My iPhone USB driver has gone missing and won't recognize when I try to update from the device drivers... can someone give a suggestion on how to get it back? It went MIA when I upgraded to the newest iTunes today.

Burd
I'm sorry to hear your phone is not responding! I'd love to get it back up and running. Can you press and hold both the front button and the top button? You may need to hold it for a few minutes, but an Apple will appear when the device resets. Keep us posted!
RuthW_VZW
Follow us on twitter @VZWSupport

Help! My optical drive has gone nuts!

I ejected a CD this morning and since then the optical drive has been making eject noises every 30 seconds or so, even though there's nothing in the slot. I tried rebooting the computer but that did nothing. I also tried restarting it and pressing on the trackpad to see if there was another CD stuck in it but nothing came out. Can someone please help?

You may need to take into an Apple Store

Upgraded to 10.8.1 and now my WD external drive has gone "bad".

Worked well last night when I moved large files on to it to make room for Creative Cloud apps...
Then this morning after installing 10.8.1 upgrade and restarting, it didn't appear and is unreadable.
Disk utility said it could not repair it.
Have gone to the WD site, downloaded and upgraded the firmware & software, the WD diagnostics seems to be stuck
on the 90% complete mark.
Do you think this is Mountain Lion or do I need to have the external hard drive taken to a place that
can (hopefully) take off all of my client files and time machine backups (ouch!)
Thanks so much!

MommaKaren,
I'm in the same situation, certainly it's a problem with Moutain Lion. I did a rollback to Lion yesterday and my HD MyBook worked as usual.
It's not the first time that WD have this kind of compatibility issues with Apple OS, It seems like everytime Apple makes major chages in its core OS the problems apears.
I'll wait for a solution from Apple (system update) or WD (firmware update).
WD is denying this compatibility issue, but everyday the number of users with the same problem increase, thus expect a solution pretty soon.
Regards,
Ewerton

Hi, my computers hard drive has gone faulty and I have lost everything, how can I get the music from my iPod touch back onto my new computer?

Thanks to anyone that can help. Have lost everything on my computer and am having to start all over again. Windows by the way. Just want to know how I can get my music etc from my iPod back onto iTunes without losing it all. Have got rid of all the CDs as well! Many thanks, Ian M

See this excellent user tip from another forum member turingtest2 outlining the different methods and software available to help you copy content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device
Hopefully you take the time to back up these files regularly in the future.
B-rock

Gutenprint quits repeatedly & Epson Driver has gone nuts

Since upgrading to Snow Leopard, when I attempt to print from my Epson R340, Gutenprint quits the moment I click the "Print" command in the printer setup window.
On the other hand, when I print from Photoshop, I somehow end up in what looks like my normal Epson print window, but the printer goes berserk and spits out several blank pages, two of which have half of my image printed on them.
Comments appreciated.

Did you possibly have a later version of Gutenprint installed before you updated? OS X 10.6 ships with Gutenprint v5.2.3. A later version of Gutenprint was released shortly before OS X 10.6 shipped and did not make it into the OS X 10.6 release.
If you had the latter version of Gutenprint installed before updating to OS X 10.6, the Snow Leopard installer will make your printers stop working. The solution is to reinstall Gutenprint v5.2.4. This is available from http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php
If that is not your case, please use a web browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:631/admin/log/error_log? This will display the CUPS error_log. There should be an error notice (begins with 'E date...' there followed by multiple lines of debugging information (begins with 'D date...'). Please post the error message and perhaps 50 to 75 lines of the debugging information.
Matt
Message was edited by: Matt Broughton

My power supply has gone out on my Imac g5 desktop, if i get a new desktop can i download my hard drive to the new computer

My Power supply has gone out, if I get a new desktop can I download the hard drive of the old to the new without the power supply

If you call around, you might be able to find an apple authorized repair shop in your area that can offer to put pull the hard dive out of the old computer and put it into an external hard drive.

After downloading iTunes 11 my DVD/CD drive is gone, have tried every suggestion with regard to registry fixes, nothing has worked and it is still completely gone...what do I do?

Have seen this for the past few years and it has finally hit my laptop. I downloaded and installed the newest version of iTunes and now my DVD/CD drive has not only stopped working, but is completely disappeared. I have tried all suggestions that I could find and it is gone.

Hi
I also have this problem - blank or pre recorded CDs are no longer recognised in my DVD drive....?

Hi, My IMac Superdrive has gone bust and i need to re-install Adobe CS5.5 design premium middle east version. I have the original version DVD with me. But i am unable to install. Can i create an USB installation drive from the DVD or can you please

Hi, My IMac Superdrive has gone bust and i need to re-install Adobe CS5.5 design premium middle east version. I have the original version DVD with me. But i am unable to install. Can i create an USB installation drive from the DVD or can you please send me a link to download the Middle east version of Adobe CS 5.5 design premium. After downloading i can enter the product key which i had bought. appreciate if anybody can offer a solution urgently. All my jobs are held up. thanks

Download CS5.5 products
Mylenium

HT4906 My hard drive replaced and my iPhoto has gone!

Hello All,
My 16 month old Mac Book Pro's hard drive has failed so I have had it replaced. I had iphoto on my mac from when I purchased it but now it has gone (along with my mac office) and all my photos too :-( Truly gutted. Is there anything i can do to get iphoto back or will I need to purchase it now?
Dont think its right I should have to now buy it?
Thanks,

What is the operating system you originally had on your Mac, when you bought it? And what was the iPhoto version you last used?
If you already upgraded to MacOS X Mavericks and have been running iPhoto '11, version 9.5.1, you can download iPhoto again from the AppStore. Sign into the AppStore with the AppleID you used, when you set up your mac initially and open the "Purchased" tab, as described in this Support Document:
OS X: About OS X Recovery
Scroll down to the middle of the page:
Restoring iLife applications after Internet Restore of OS X
If your computer came with OS X Lion or later and you erase your hard disk and install OS X, you can download iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand from the Mac App Store.
After installation, start (up) from OS X.
Choose App Store from the Apple menu.
Enter your Apple ID and password when prompted.
Click Purchases.
If you haven't previously accepted your bundled iLife applications within the Mac App Store, you should see your iLife applications appear in the Accept portion of the screen. Click Accept.
You may be asked for your Apple ID and password once again. Your iLife applications now move to the Purchased section. These applications are part of the software that came with your computer. Your account will not be charged for them. Click Install to complete installation of your applications.
Applications you bought from the AppStore can be restored by downloading them from the Purchased tab.
To restore your iPhoto library and other applications, you need to restore from your backup - a Time Machine Backup for example, or a bootable clone of your drive.

I recently tried to update my iphone software via itunes but got an error and my iphone has gone to recovery mode and now it doesn't connects to my itunes. i tried everything but can't connect and apple mobile device(recovery mode) driver

I recently tried to update my iphone software via itunes but got an error and my iphone has gone to recovery mode and now it doesn't connects to my itunes. i tried everything but can't connect and apple mobile device(recovery mode) driver is not installed. Where can i get apple mobile device(recovery mode) driver software? please help

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694#error1

Something has gone wrong with my external hard drive after my macbook battery went off.. now i cannot paste or create new folder. Does anyone know how to fix this?

something has gone wrong with my external hard drive after my macbook battery went off.. now i cannot paste or create new folder. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Bus powered external drive?
Backups?
Does Disk Utility can see and repair the drive or not?
Also try here in future: MacBook Pro

What has gone wrong? whilst moving originals to external hard drive it has renamed my files to my latest import name

what has gone wrong? whilst moving originals (to make them referanced files) to external hard drive, drobo 5s, it has renamed my files to my latest import name. what do I do?

The drop-down settings in the Relocate Originals dialog remain unchanged from one use to the next (they are sticky). My guess is that you left the "Name Format" dropdown in the last (unwanted) position -- one you had set when you relocated Originals and wanted them renamed using the file naming convention you use when importing.
The best you can do is to rename the mis-named files. You cannot undo the renaming that has been done.
This is a design flaw (imho it falls short of a bug). You should let Apple's Aperture team know that the behavior your got was different from what you expected, and was not reversible. Use "Aperture➞Provide Aperture Feedback".

How to find where all hard drive capacity has gone?

My hard drive has a capacity for 75GB. Whe I click Get Info - it says I have used 52.9 GB but when I Get Info for all the Directories on the hard drive (Applications, Library, System, Users) it shows 25.1 GB has been used. How can I can I find where the oher stealth 21.8GB are? (note: my PowerPC G5 does not have this problem). Thanks

Eric:
Whatever you do, don't move or remove any hidden files; instead, just look there and do Get Info's as necessary or desired, okay? These are critical files and are hidden to preclude them from being moved, etc. If an errant file is found, there are other ways to remove it if necessary...
With the hidden files/folders option selected in OnyX, do a Get Info on /private/var/vm/ at the root level of your hard drive. This will tell you the size of the virtual memory/swap files, which should be well under 1 GB.
Regarding Backup, have you ever had a backup scheduled without the external drive mounted as the target volume, or perhaps a failed attempt to backup to the external drive? If so, you may have a "false backup" hidden on your startup drive. If you think that this has happened, please advise. This could also occur while using Disk Utility's Restore option, CarbonCopyCloner, SuperDuper, etc.
Gary

My iMac G5's Hard Drive Has Most Likely Failed

So my hard drive has been having problems since November 2005, but the computer has been barely holding out, until now. The computers just dead. I got this message from
It happened at the most random time. Yesterday morning, I turned on my computer and opened Safari. Everything went just fine, and about 3/4 way through loading the apple startpage, the entire computer froze up.
I tried disk utility but it froze while verifying and repairing disk permissions (about 1/8 started and it froze) and when I did verify disk, it came up with a popup window stating:
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
And then in the Disk Utility information window where it says the status that its at (Checking....) it said this:
Checking HFS Plus Volume
Checking Extents Overflow File
Checking Catalog File
Invalid Sibling Link
Volume Check Failed
The underlying task reported failure on exit.
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Then I ran fsck in single-user mode, and i got this:
#fsck -fy
disk0s3: I/O timeout
(4, 7808)
I'm not sure what the coordinates mean. I'm thinking they might be the coordinates to a bad sector that may be screwing EVERYTHING up because the computer failed to recognize the bad sector, and close it off of any further use.
After that I ran diskutility in single-user mode thinking maybe the GUI version was corrupted... but I let the diskutil verifyPermissions /dev/disk0s3 run for an hour and nothing showed up on the screen so i just decided to stop, shut down, and go to bed.
So now i've figured, my iMac has given me enough trouble as it is. ive had so many problems with it... ever since november 2005 (5 months into owning it) it has had the following hard drive error code show up in extended test for the Apple Hardware Test ever since... and about 1 hour ago, i retested it, and sure enough this came up:
**ERROR*CODE***ERROR*CODE**
2STF/8/3: S-ATA Bus O-Master
**ERROR*CODE***ERROR*CODE**
I'm really not happy with mac right now. I think their 1 year warranty is useless and they pretty much leave you screwed if you dont buy their applecare protection plan.
I have a windows 98 (upgraded from 95) that i bought way back in 1997, and its still functional... with the same hard drive... same everything... and it works just fine... except for the memory is small because back then 128 GB was the biggest it got) :P
so a 5 GB hard drive going on its 10th working years, and this 150 GB hard drive failed after 14 months... all i've gotta say is: Apple, thats pretty pathetic... especially after you mock PC in their commercials for "breaking down". Ive actually had less problems with all of my 3 PCs combined then I've had with this **** iMac.
So now heres what i'm trying to figure out. i'm wondering, what kind of hard drive i shuold buy to replace it... i tried the DIY hardware replacement ordering page but it says that the apple website couldnt find it (http://www.apple.com/support/imac/g5/diy/).
I wasnt planning on buying from the apple DIY anyway, but I wanted to see if it would specify a type of hard drive. Where is the popular website to go to buy these things, and how expensive will it be for me to replace it with a hard drive about as big as my current one).
Or should I not throw my hard drive away yet, and invest hope in it somehow. I heard DiskWarrior could do the trick, but I dont want to have to spend $80 on a piece of software that might not even work out right. And all the free ones you have to download to your mac... but too bad for me, my mac wont even start up... (well it does but when it gets to the desktop, its pretty much unfunctional... just a moving mouse that wont do anything).
Is there some renouned website (as crucial.com is for memory) among these forums that you might suggest?
I'm open and desperate for any input i can get. The sooner the better
Thanks in advance
-Mark

Hey look, its my friend Charlie from my Disk Permissions Error -36 post.
Here's our thread from last time. Alot of the stuff there still pertains: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=620422&tstart=0
It turns out the reformat I did only worked for a little while. Then last friday, my kernel was corrupted, and so i did "Erase All" but skipped the "Zero All Data" figuring that it wouldnt be necessary since I wasnt discarding my drive, so there wasnt anything to secure from anyone recovering private data. It worked for 4 days after that, and now I'm here again. With problems.
Do you remember getting disk I/O errors on disk0s3?
If you remember way back then, I had gotten this error when I did diskutil list in Terminal:
Aug 30 21:42:08 mark-imac-g5 kernel[0]: disk0s3: I/O error.
/dev/disk0
#: type name size identifier
0: Applepartitionscheme *149.1 GB disk0
1: Applepartitionmap 31.5 KB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 148.9 GB disk0s3
I'm running DiskWarrior right now (borrowed it from a friend... didnt feel up to paying the $80 & have it potentially not work) and its stuck at this message:
Rebuilding Directory Data
[ |||||||||||Solid Progress Bar||||||||||| ]
Step 5: Locating Directory Data
[\\\\\\\Barbershop-like Progress Bar\\\\\\\]
Speed inhibited by disk malfunction (Skip) (Cancel)
Its been stuck there for about an hour, and I'm assuming its not going to work as you suggested it wouldn't
It's too late to do any good now, but if you ever run the
hardware test and get an error code, you should have Apple
look at it. If you were getting that error code 5 months
after the computer was new, a replacement drive would have
been covered under your warranty.
I wish I had actually done so. I was a mac-noob back then so I had no idea what anything was, and I was still getting used to the actual working-with-a-mac thing (ive been a Windows user for most of my life except for working/helping teachers with their macs at school... i was always the computer-person in school... it was pretty awesome :P)
I have to disagree with the other posters. I don't think >DiskWarrior is going to help you. Data Rescue II might help >you to get some files off your hard drive if you have files >on there that aren't backed up. But my experience was that >when I got the error in the hardware test, DiskWarrior >didn't work.
Right now I have everything backed up that I need, so it's not like i'm using DiskWarrior to get my data back. I just want a program to be able to tell the hard drive that these certain sectors that are acting up and causing the hard drive to fail are ruined and to not use them anymore. If its not just 1 sector, but the entire hard drive that is failed, I'm not even gonna bother salvaging it (even though i'm sure if it was completely failed there would be no way of getting it back that deep into failure).
I read at this website about someone else who had a similar problem to mine (http://www.desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/archive/index.php/t-901.htmldiskwarrior+speed+inhibited+by+diskmalfunction&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2):
ElyseC - 07-14-2005, 11:52 PM
And now the latest reply from Marc the support tech:
There have been a handful who have seen success after four
or five days with the "speed inhibited by disk
malfunction" message. There have also been a few
up to a week. From there, admittedly, the state
of the drive has to be pretty damaged for DiskWarrior to
run so long, although the speed DiskWarrior can work is
also related to the speed of the processor, so four days
for a G3 is different than four days for a G5.
She later posted this:
,..for a variety of reasons I ended up letting DW chug away on my drive for a few days shy of an entire month.
*UPDATE MID WRITING THE POST*
Disk warrior finally unfroze! It's now Comparing Directories (recording any file or folder differences).
I'll post more when it's all done
Or if i have trouble mid-way

Holy Moly - My drive has gone!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for