Memorex USB DVD Burner/RW not playing movies " A valid drive could not be found. [-770012

Why does the USB DVD player/burner not work under Mavericks when it worked on a much older 2Core Duo Mac running Lion? Why is there no support for this item sold in an Office Depot Store? You can not get any more plain vanilla hardware than that.

Why does the USB DVD player/burner not work under Mavericks when it worked on a much older 2Core Duo Mac running Lion? Why is there no support for this item sold in an Office Depot Store? You can not get any more plain vanilla hardware than that.

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