Optical drive accepts discs, tries to read, then ejects

my drive will accept a disc, make noises for a while, and then reject it. if i keep inserting it, it eventually works with no apparent damage to the disc, but it takes a number of tries. any ideas as yo what is going on?

Sounds like dust or dirt on the lens, run a Lens Cleaner disc through it ?

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Optical drive accepts discs, tries to read, then ejects - THIS WORKS!!

OMG!
I had this problem! I was just about ready to replace the drive, but then found this link. It uses a credit card and a soft cloth. ALL of my disks work AND I can burn CDs and DVDs again!! The fix is at the bottom of the page.
http://muzso.hu/2008/08/17/how-to-clean-the-lens-of-a-slot-loading-optical-drive -a-macbook-pros-superdrive?page=2

Thank you for the link and the advice.
I followed the path taken by several posters on the link site. They stated that they had used a credit card and a soft cleaning cloth (like the one that shipped with the MBP). I followed this route (although not with a credit card), surmising that this did not require me to dismantle my MBP and the superdrive.
Although I'm not sure what I did, nor where the application of this method was precisely effective, it nonetheless worked and my superdrive has been resurrected.

Since I upgrade to Lion OS my optical drive stop working can't read or write at all I did what I could to fix it but still not working , any help please

Since I upgrade to Lion OS my optical drive stop working can't read or write at all I did what I could to fix it but still not working , any help please

It sounds like you may have multiple problems, but none of them are likely to be caused by malware.
First, the internet-related issues may be related to adware or a network compromise. I tend to lean more towards the latter, based on your description of the problem. See:
http://www.adwaremedic.com/kb/baddns.php
http://www.adwaremedic.com/kb/hackedrouter.php
If investigation shows that this is not a network-specific issue, then it's probably adware. See my Adware Removal Guide for help finding and removing it. Note that you mention AdBlock as if it should have prevented this, but it's important to understand that ad blockers do not protect you against adware in any way. Neither would any kind of anti-virus software, which often doesn't detect adware.
As for the other issues, it sounds like you've got some serious corruption. I would be inclined to say it sounds like a failing drive, except it sounds like you just got it replaced. How did you get all your files back after the new drive was installed?
(Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, TheSafeMac.com and AdwareMedic.com, in the form of buttons allowing for donations. Donations are not required to use my site or software.)

??? about optical drive, installation discs and display in "new" refurb MB

Yesterday I received the "new" refurbished MB 2.0 1GB RAM 120GB HD (black) bought for my wife a week ago through the Apple website.
(I have a new MBP with a glossy display since January and it has so far been w/o problems.)
As soon as I set up the MB, I noticed the following three issues. Perhaps someone can comment and propose solutions where appropriate.
I did set myself up as the Administrator on the MB and arranged for fast user switching (I am the only user on my MBP). I downloaded all the updates onto the new MB (it came with 10.4.8 preloaded).
Here are the issues/questions (going from minor to major):
1. the optical drive slot of the MB shows a lot more resistance than the one on the MBP. When I pushed in the first DVD I was actually afraid of breaking something. The first time I tried to eject it it would not come out, instead it reloaded again after the initial attempt to eject the DVD. Subsequent attempts to insert a DVD were met with equal resistance, but the ejection was smoother. Should I be worried about this apparent higher resistance to disc insertion than in the MBP or is this expected?
2. my MBP came with two installation DVDs, one labeled "MBP installation disc 1" and the other "installation disc 2". The MB came with two DVDs, one labeled "MB installation disc 1" and the other as "Mac installation disc 1" (yes, both are "disc 1"). Shouldn't there be a "MB installation disc 2" instead of the latter one?
3. this is bothering me the most: the display of the MB is horrible, the colors are faded and the whole screen is bluish. The best and closest (but still not normal) appearance the display has when the MB lid is open as wide as possible and I look at it almost from below (a view 45 degrees from below makes the text of web pages legible, though the gray brushed metal-appearance of Safari, for example, still looks light blue rather than gray). I did check postings on this forum and found that the color settings can be changed in display preferences, and that something called "color LCD" is probably the preferred setting for a MB. Interestingly, my MBP is set to this setting and has a total of 6-7 different settings to choose from. However, the MB does not have this setting ("color LCD") and has only 3 different settings, though both MBP and MB are now 10.4.10. Needless to say, my glossy MBP display looks fantastic. How do I get the MB to look that way too? Can I download this "color LCD" setting from somewhere? (BTW, I did notice on in-store MBs, particularly in non-Apple stores such as CompUSA, in the past this issue with faded colors and a bluish discoloration, some of them even worse then this "new" refurbished MB. I was in the local Apple store yesterday evening for an unrelated issue and looked briefly at the newest black MBs, their colors are somewhat more faded and bluish than my MBP, but not like our new MB).
I'm at work now, so if anyone has ideas or specific additional questions, I'll be able to address them tomorrow.
Please keep in mind, I'm no computer wiz and have some experience with a Mac only since January.
Thanks for any suggestions you might have.
Message was edited by: tutlek

tutlek wrote:
3. this is bothering me the most: the display of the MB is horrible, the colors are faded and the whole screen is bluish. The best and closest (but still not normal) appearance the display has when the MB lid is open as wide as possible and I look at it almost from below (a view 45 degrees from below makes the text of web pages legible, though the gray brushed metal-appearance of Safari, for example, still looks light blue rather than gray). I did check postings on this forum and found that the color settings can be changed in display preferences, and that something called "color LCD" is probably the preferred setting for a MB. Interestingly, my MBP is set to this setting and has a total of 6-7 different settings to choose from. However, the MB does not have this setting ("color LCD") and has only 3 different settings, though both MBP and MB are now 10.4.10. Needless to say, my glossy MBP display looks fantastic. How do I get the MB to look that way too? Can I download this "color LCD" setting from somewhere? (BTW, I did notice on in-store MBs, particularly in non-Apple stores such as CompUSA, in the past this issue with faded colors and a bluish discoloration, some of them even worse then this "new" refurbished MB. I was in the local Apple store yesterday evening for an unrelated issue and looked briefly at the newest black MBs, their colors are somewhat more faded and bluish than my MBP, but not like our new MB).
Have you tried calibrating the monitor in System Preferences>Display>Color?
I had a similar problem to this when I bought my MacBook (too blue) and I calibrated it (using the "Expert Mode").
After that, it was fine.

External Optical Drive - some discs work

Hi there,
I've hooked up an old Imation CD-RW to my DV
via USB. The internal slot drive is problematic.
It seems to read data CDs well enough but not
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Chops...
"I am unable to mount video and audio discs."
"I can only view the first burn."
Are those all burned CDs and is the burning software installed on that specific computer? Same drive used in burning the CDs?
There seems to be many other variables your dealing with that hasn't surfaced from your origonal "sounding" post.
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•CarbonLib1.6 (Some modern apps require this one)
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It happens with "burned" CDs? What brand are you using? You may want to look at Knowledge Base Document #88275 on Troubleshooting the slot load disc drive (Portables).
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No boot up because optical drive has media in it

I recently purchased Snow Leopard to upgrade my early Intel MacBook Pro. When I put the disk in the disk didn't mount so I attempted to get it to eject. I wasn't able to get it to eject so I followed some of the trouble shooting. I'm thinking my optical drive isn't working properly because I haven't used it in a while but now when I try to boot the computer it hangs when it try's to read the optical drive. I tried forcing it to eject using the mouse button as well as trying to force a hard drive boot by holding the "d" key. At this point is there anything I can do short of opening it up and pulling out the disk myself?

Holding down the 'd' key at startup is the shortcut to start Apple Hardware Test. To select a boot volume at startup, hold down option.
However, if holding down the mouse button at startup won't cause the disk to eject, there may be a hardware issue with the optical drive. One thing to try before writing it off entirely, though, is to boot into single-user mode by holding down command-s at startup, then enter the following command:
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The drive accepts discs but they do not mount or are automatically ejected
Check the disc's surface for scratches and dirt, since these things can prevent the disc from appearing on the desktop.
The MacBook Air SuperDrive is designed to be used with MacBook Air and Mac mini computers that do not have a built-in optical drive. For best results, connect the MacBook Air SuperDrive directly to the computer's USB port instead a USB hub.
Reset the System Management Controller (SMC).
Ensure your drive can read the specific type of disc being used. The System Profiler or System Information may provide additional information regarding what media your computer supports.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or earlier: Open Apple System Profiler by choosing "About this Mac" from the Apple () menu. Then, click More Info.
OS X 10.7 Lion or later: Open System Information by choosing "About this Mac" from the Apple () menu. Then, click System Report.
If the disc continues to not be recognized, contact Apple, an Apple Authorized Service Provider, or make an appointment with an Apple Retail Store for additional troubleshooting, evaluation, or service.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2801

Optical drives reads but wont write after swap

hello everyone, I bought an iMac G3 450MHz that had had a 'superdrive' fitted. It both read and wrote CD's and DVDs. I tested it out and it worked just fine, I even made a back up copy of my Tiger DVD with it. I wanted to put the optical drive into my beloved Flower Power 600 iMac CD-RW so ,to make sure all the drive cables etc weren't disturbed, I just removed the whole caddy with the HDD plus the optical drive plus all the connecting cables, and popped it into my Flower Power. It booted up fine so I loaded (via carbon copy cloner) the contents of my original HDD. Now, when I look in system profiler, the optical drive shows up as a read/write but will only read discs. If I put in a blank disc the iMac's OS doesn't see the blank disc. Funnily enough my copy of Toast does see it and Toast launches itself. As I want to be able to burn disc images using Disk Utility this is a bit of a problem for me. I might just add, as it may be of some interest, that whoever fitted the superdrive had the HDD jumpers set to Slave but this was how it was when it worked perfectly in the 450MHz it came in so this was how I left them. The other little problem is the iMac won't sleep but I can live with that.

The reason your hard drive is set to slave is because it shares the IDE bus with the optical drive. With the stock optical drive, the optical drive is set to slave and the hard drive is set to master. However, that superdrive is probably hardwired to master, so the hard drive needs to be slave. As long as one drive is slave and the other drive is master, it should work fine.
Are you using the exact same system installation from the 450 on the 600? If not, there was probably some special driver installed to enable the all the superdrive features. Toast is a third-party app that is designed to work with many different optical drives, so such a driver would be built into the software, which would explain why it works (and Disk Utility does not).
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My optical drive reads DVD's, but wont read or write anything else!

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See if a disk cleaner DVD or a few shots of compressed air will cure your problem.
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T400: Optical Drive Power Off, Then Disappears

I'm running Win 7 x64 on a T400, and recently installed Power Manager 3.12. Since 3.11, I've enabled the "Automatic Optical Drive Power Off" feature. In Vista, this worked fine, where once the drive was powered off (and the light on it would go off), I'd eject it and it'd automatically power back on. Or, in My Computer, I could right-clik on it and power it back on.
Now, in Win 7, once it powers off, it disappears from My Computer completely. On top of that, the light on the drive stays on, and after a while a different thing shows up in My Computer under "Other" and all it says is "(Powered Off)", but it's not the optical drive. Clicking "Power On" on this phantom device does nothing, and ejecting and closing the optical drive does not get it to show up again either.
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Optical drive tries to find a disk at startup and when getting out of sleep

I don't think it's a macbook only problem. I had tried to install photoshop but at a certain point, the computer freezes and I had to shutdown. When I startup, it freezes after five seconds when loading up everything everytime, but the mouse still moves. I finally found out about the safe mode so I solved my inability to work with my macbook.
The problem I have now is that everytime I startup the computer, it wants to find a disk in the optical drive. It only does it once but it does it everytime I startup and also coming out of sleep, any suggestions?

Is the system process to look the optical drive that bad, I mean like sound wise, was it horrible, and what about the time consuming when it look for something in the drive, was it a couple second or it took forever with the beachball rolling. And was it like that since you have it or it just happen after you installed photoshop and freeze.
If it just like couple second, I assume it just default setting from PRAM that instruct optical drive everytime you start up or wake up from sleep to check is there something inside the optical drive that need to be read or spit it out or it could be the lens adjusted/calibrated itself, but I could be wrong on this.
But if it to annoying and you suspect a mal-production, better bring that to apple store and show them and consult with them, probably you will get a better one that is not a mal-production.
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Optical drive ejecting disks

my optical drive keeps ejecting blank disks and DVDs. I've tried different makes and formats but the drive keeps ejecting them. Any ideas on what can I do to rectify

The drive accepts discs but they do not mount or are automatically ejected
Check the disc's surface for scratches and dirt, since these things can prevent the disc from appearing on the desktop.
The MacBook Air SuperDrive is designed to be used with MacBook Air and Mac mini computers that do not have a built-in optical drive. For best results, connect the MacBook Air SuperDrive directly to the computer's USB port instead a USB hub.
Reset the System Management Controller (SMC).
Ensure your drive can read the specific type of disc being used. The System Profiler or System Information may provide additional information regarding what media your computer supports.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or earlier: Open Apple System Profiler by choosing "About this Mac" from the Apple () menu. Then, click More Info.
OS X 10.7 Lion or later: Open System Information by choosing "About this Mac" from the Apple () menu. Then, click System Report.
If the disc continues to not be recognized, contact Apple, an Apple Authorized Service Provider, or make an appointment with an Apple Retail Store for additional troubleshooting, evaluation, or service.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2801?viewlocale=en_US

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This MacBook is about 5 months old and the optical drive has just started making noises at wake from sleep, or at restart. There is no disc loaded in the drive, but the noise is as though a disc has been inserted in the drive and it is attempting to read it. This goes on for about 5 to 10 seconds, then stops.
The optical drive seems to work fine, reads CDs and DVDs no problem. This isn't a glaring issue, I'm just trying to determine if it is the precursor to a mechanical problem, or is possibly some sort of software glitch. Thanks for help if this rings a bell with anyone.

I posted this to a different thread earlier today. I will add that most of the experience I've had with this issue is in Tiger or Leopard. I don't think I've seen it yet with Snow Leopard. My instincts tell me it is more of a hardware issue than a software/OS issue. (Just my $0.02.)
I have seen this many times. (I support 100+ Mac Laptops, most are 13" MacBooks.)
Just to clarify, MacBook optical drives do normally make some quiet noises when waking from sleep.
When there is a CD or DVD in the drive, there are some soft sounds, and then you hear the disc spin up. When there is not a disc in the drive you hear a different sound. I assume it is relating to checking for a disc in the drive. To me, it sounds exactly the same as the quiet sounds you hear right before the "Good Chime" when you power up.
BUT, sometimes MacBooks make a much louder noise, that is similar the sound you hear when you insert or eject a CD or DVD, only sort of "doubled". Usually you hear it when waking from sleep, but I have also experienced it happen intermittently when the MacBook is turned on, under normal use, or not being used (but not sleeping or waking from sleep).
In the past, I have sometime cured it with a reset of the SMC and PRAM. This has not always worked. I have also seen it disappear after inserting a disc into the drive. Most of the time, the sound has returned some time later. I have called Apple on this issue several times, and sent the MacBook in for repair. My memory is that they have replaced the optical drive under AppleCare.
I will add that I have recently seen this Knowledge Base Article (below), with instructions for "resetting" the optical drive on a MacBook Pro, but it did work for me on a MacBook 13". Insert a disc halfway, take it back out, then put it in all the way.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2839
Past experience tells me not to be surprised if the noise resurfaces. My advice is call Apple if you have AppleCare, or if the MacBook is under one year old.
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