My Apple USB Superdrive can't read CD, CD is un-ejectable (not shown in Finder). Any ideas?
After putting in a picture-CD nothing happened. Drive is running like normal, but the CD is not shown in the Finder-Menue. Therefor there is no eject-button or any possibility to throw the CD out.
Is there any (mechanical( possibility? Thanks for any inputs. :-)
See here:
http://osxdaily.com/2009/08/28/eject-a-stuck-disk-from-your-mac-dvd-super-drive/
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There are third party Blu-ray usb players available.
Some come with software and others not. If that is case, you have to buy software separately.
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