Problem installing multi-disc software with USB Superdrive

I'm trying to install a large virtual instrument library for music production (Komplete 5). On a brand new Macbook Pro Retina, using the USB Superdrive for installation. Typically with these installers, once it's finished with one disc, it asks you to insert the next DVD in the sequence to continue installation. The problem I've run into with the Superdrive is that it won't allow me to eject the disc, giving me an error message that the disc is "in use by the installer." This never occured on other Macs with an internal optical drive. I can't find any way to force eject the disc in order to move on with the installation. I'm stuck until I can find a workaround. Any suggestions?

The Disk Utility repair disk can't be run on the boot disk from the boot disk. You must boot into another hard drive and run Disk Utility from it on your boot drive. Or you can try booting into the Recovery HD that Mt. Lion creates. There you can run Disk Utility. I'm not sure if you can repair disk with this method but it's worth a try. I've only used it to reinstall the system on my iMac. Apple - OS X Recovery restores your Mac with a few clicks.
Another possibility is to boot into Safe Mode, Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode. During startup it will run some of the repair routines that disk utility does. That may be sufficient. Reboot and verify the disk again with DU.

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Problem installing multi-disc software

I've got a 15" Macbook Pro running Leopard (10.5.2) and Bootcamp with Windows XP. I use the windows partition primarily for PC games. Games that have a single disk (e.g., Half-Life) install and run just fine. I am having trouble installing games that come on more than one disc though (e.g., Call of Duty). I put Disc 1 in and the installation begins. It then asks me to eject Disc 1, put in Disc 2 and hit "OK". I do this and the installation hangs. If I go to the Windows task manager it says the Installation program is "not responding". This has been a problem with multiple games.
I got around this problem with one game by copying the entire contents of the 2nd CD to the hard drive and then directing the installation program to the files. But with Call of Duty it doesn't give me and option to tell it where the files are, it just says hit "OK" so I don't think this same approach will work.
Suggestions? Thanks!

Autorun.exe is a Windows/PC executable, not a Mac OS X file. You cannot run .exe files in Mac OS X.
Generally the installer will ask for any additional discs required. If none were requested during the normal installation, then the other discs aren't required for the Mac installation. This should all be explained in the installation or user guide that came with the software. However, if you feel you are having an installation problem then you need to contact the software developer for assistance. These discussions do not provide support for third-party products.
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Trying to install win7 over bootcamp with usb flash drive is not accepted

trying to install win7 over bootcamp with usb flash drive, the partition is not accepted under windows although its formatted ntfs, there is shown a faillure which could be read in the logs of win install but i don't find them. Tried at least five times to reinstall / reformat

You'll probably have better responses over in the Boot Camp forum....here's a link for you:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

Problem installing software using USB SuperDrive

Hi You Clever People Out There
I've tried to search previous enquiries, but from what I can see there are similar issues but not specifically one to match my problem... So thanks in advance of any help you can offer and apologies if I'm doing something really dumb....
I've been trying to load some software (Vectorworks and Photoshop Elements, specifically) using the USB SuperDrive, which I understand should now be compatible with my latest model iMAC 27'' (I bought it last month)
However, I seem to have lost permission rights as when I click on the installation file I get a message saying 'the application can't be found' (same for both discs / programmes). When I go to 'Get Info', the Sharing & Permisions states 'you can only read', with no apparent options for changing the setting
I can load and watch DVDs and the SuperDrive flags up in Finder as 'remote disc', but when I try to Get Info for this, I just get 'General' and 'Preview' categories. A third category 'More Info' does not load - it just shows a continuoisly spinning dial with the message 'Fetching...' - or at least doesn't appear to as I've let continue for over 30mins
Prior to this I had succesfully installed the programmes on my PC - which I am planning to phase out in preference to the MAC - and both the disks are formatted for MAC OS Standard
Needless to say I've tried the 'switching on/off' and therfore exhausted my IT support tool repertoire:-) so hopefully there's enough info here for someone to recognise what's going on.

The Disk Utility repair disk can't be run on the boot disk from the boot disk. You must boot into another hard drive and run Disk Utility from it on your boot drive. Or you can try booting into the Recovery HD that Mt. Lion creates. There you can run Disk Utility. I'm not sure if you can repair disk with this method but it's worth a try. I've only used it to reinstall the system on my iMac. Apple - OS X Recovery restores your Mac with a few clicks.
Another possibility is to boot into Safe Mode, Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode. During startup it will run some of the repair routines that disk utility does. That may be sufficient. Reboot and verify the disk again with DU.

Problems Installing FFMpegX for use with QuickTime and other software

Okay I don't know whether I should be posting this here or under the board for Using Mac OS X Panther and earlier operating systems but I used to have the FFMpegX video and audio conversion software installed on my Mac an Apple 12' PowerBook G4 but recently had a system OS reinstall when my hard disk became defective and I was unable to make repairs.
I backed up all my files but of course I couldn't back up the software I had downloaded. Was fortunately able to redownload some of my apps but this is a case where an app of mine I want back won't come back.
I download the installer and it fails to mount the disk image even on my desktop. I am running Mac OS 10.3.9 Panther -- I tried searching for an older version of ffmpegX I could download but that didn't work either. Since when is ffmpegX shareware? When I used it the software was freeware.
Anyways, it is such an essential program foir me that I would pay the fee just to get it back but I can't even download the trial software to begin with. I have tried downloading from the main website www.ffmpegX.com and a few other links I found on Google but to no alas none have seemed to work.
I have plenty of videos I like to encode and re-encode from time to time using my Mac from VOB 2 .DAT 2 AVI 2 MPEG 2 M4V (iPod format) 2 WMV 2 MOV etc and vice versa using Divx and XviD codecs I NEED FFMPEGX what can I do?
I have Mac OS 10.3.9 Panther with QuickTime 7.1.2, iTunes 6.0.5 the Apple Security Update 2006-003, Virex 7.2 virus protection software and Microsoft Office X with the latest patches for that software product and VLC Media Player. I need FFmpegX and/or (in either case actually drop the or) software for Mac OS X that allows users to convert video .DAT files from VCD to AVI.
I have Divx codec for Mac and 3ivx software with Divx Doctor II -- an AVI 2 MOV video conversion software + D Vision 3 also installed. I currently have installed Safari 1.3.2 also.
Any suggestions! Please help any way possible. I just have to get FFmegX working again.

http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html (free).
http://apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2 ($20). Needed for MPEG-2 conversions.
http://flip4mac.com for the WMP conversions (prices vary based on features).

Problems Installing Adobe CS2 software

Hi,
I purchased my iMac aswell as Adobe CS2 software back in September. I started installing the CS2 software (4 discs) and by the last disc, installation froze and the drive sounded like it was in a continuous search on the disc. So I had to reboot and eject the disc. This continued for 2 more tries. I contacted Adobe and they said it was a disc problem, so I exchanged my CS2 for another CS2 disc set. I completely erased the previous CS2 applications, reinstalled OSX and tried again. This time it was the 2nd of 4 discs that just got skipped over - nothing even installed from that disc - the computer just spat it out and said: "disc 2 complete, please insert disc 3..."
Anyone think I have drive or hardware issues???

Hi Bushfire.
I had a very similar problem when I installed CS 1 under OS X 10.3 on an iBook. In that case it turned out that the version of Stuffit Expander supplied with the OS was too old. (The stuffit engine is, I believe used to unpack some or all of the goodies from the installer). After upgrading Stuffit Expander to - I think to version 7 at the time - the install went perfectly.
OS X 10.4 doesn't have any version of stuffit expander included with it at all. Have a look on versiontracker.com to download if you haven't allready got it. Could be worth a try.
I have subsequently installed CS 2 on my iMac G5, and everything went OK -so it CAN work.
Good luck - and let me know if it works.
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Problem installing 10.8.5 from usb - looping...

My HD failed. I installed new hardware. Went from Hitachi (2T) to WD (4T) - temp sensor not compatible so fan loud, but that's ok...
Tried to restore from time machine backup, but wouldn't work - something about recovery partition. Had already partitioned the new HD correctly (journaled, GUID). Read that I might try installing OSX to the new HD from USB first, but that all I had to do was go through the 1st reboot. Tried the stop the install at that point, but it wouldn't stop. Finally was able to point at USB disk, but keeps trying to install and now saying installer had a problem... Can't get the computer to start up from the USB drive even when I hold the option key down - just comes back saying there was a problem with the installation. When I look at disk utility I see a disk2, Mac OS Base System... Can't remove it even when repartitioning the new HD again. At a loss here on what the do now.
My ideas:
1. Create a new bootable USB?
2. Boot to Safe mode or somehow reset the HW somehow? PVRAM?
Help!

Thanks for the response. I'm not sure about the necessity of the first suggestion - I created a bootable USB drive from the 10.8 installer which I downloaded - it was in the Applications folder. I used a file in SharedSupport - InstallESD.dmg... Essentially I followed the DIY part of this link:
     http://www.cultofmac.com/180925/how-to-make-a-bootable-disk-or-usb-drive-of-os-x -mountain-lion/
Safe mode - I thought I might be able to boot into safe mode from the USB - guess not.
I don't get much of an error now. All it says is:
     There was a problem installing "Mac OS X".
     Try reinstalling.
Then there is a button for OK. When you click OK - nothing happens.
Next to the apple (upper left) I see "OS X Installer". Then there is a File, Edit, Utilities and Window menus.
Utilities contains firmware password utility..., disk utility..., terminal..., netowkr utility..., and restore system from backup...
When I run disk utility here I see:
     My new 4TB WDC and it's sub-entry - "Untitled 1".
          When I look at Untitied 1 I see /Volumes/Untitled 1 mount point, Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
          4TB, used 1.11GB, 3 folders, 2 files
     SuperDrive (my dvd drive)
     disk2
          This is an apple disk image with a capacity of 1.19GB with a Apple Partition Map scheme
          Under disk2 is "Mac OS X Base System"
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               and 35,620 files
     8.03GB SanDisk
          Mac OS X Install ESD - this is obviously my bootable drive for installing Mac OS
I've tried to re-partition the 4TB hard drive but it doesn't seem to remove the disk2 recovery partition. I have only re-partitioned the drive to a Mac OS Extended (Journaled), single partition... Interestingly the 8.03GB SanDisk moved above the line next to the 4TB. The disk2 drive is unchanged.
Perhaps I should reformat to a different method? or change from GUID? Seems like there is a separate "recovery partition" that I'm not able to clear or re-start the installation even though the drive is empty - or so I thought.
Interestingly, when I try to run Terminal... it doesn't respond. I get "-bash-3.2# " as a cursor, but it is unresponsive.
When I try to select - "Restore system from backup" there is no response - it's as if it's completely ignored.
I also just tried holding the "C" key during restart - same thing - it jumps to a window which says it's installing OSX for a few seconds, then the same error I outlined above.

Problems installing Windows 7 from a USB stick

I have got a brand new W510 that i am doing a clean install of Windows 7.
However i have faced major problems with installing from a USB stick attached to the W510.
Please notice that there isn't any problem installing Windows 7 to my other PC from this USB stick, this problem is only present with W510.
I have the BIOS from Lenovo v 1.35, Bios settting are reset to default to isolate any faulty settings.
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Version 1.35 (BIOS ID: 6LET74WW) [for BIOS ID 6Lxxxxxx-based computer]
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Below is picture of the problem.
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Picture 1
Next step when it boots
Picture 2
I press Install Now
Picture 3
This warning message comes up, can't find driver device
Picture 4
I click browse and try to find my USB stick, none of my USB sticks are listed, is this a Lenovo BIOS bug or Windows 7 Installation detection problem??
Picture 5

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I am having a problem installing the JDK Software. Please Help

Please help I am Having trouble installing my JDK software. I tried to make a simple program saying Hello World and the program fails to work because it can not find my class.
C:\Jfiles\DIR
ILoveJava.java
ILoveJava.class
C:\Jfiles\Javac ILoveJava.java
C:\Jfiles\Java ILoveJava
Exception in thread "main" Java.lang.NoclassDeffounderror
The Path seems to be set correctly because the Javac compiled.
I have tried a number of different ClassPath Definitions like C:\JDK.14\Lib\Tools.jar and ClassPath=.;C:\JDK.14\Lib\Tools.jar and ClassPath=. and ClassPath=
I made sure that the capitilization and the spelling was the same between the ILoveJava I specified in notepad and the program name.
I am also having trouble with JBuilder, Eclispe and NetBeans with finding Classes.
Another error that I received after I changed the ClassPath to ClassPath= .;C:\JDK1.4\bin\ was a
nosuchmethod error, When I tried to run the program I made using Java ILoveJava.
Is their any other problem like a conflict of some sort that could be causing this problem?
Could the problem be anything besides the ClassPath and Path Settings?
Please, help me? I really, really, need to learn Java. Thank You.
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Java Version 1.4.2.
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Hi all,
Sylonious, did you manage to sort this problem out? I have been experiencing similar problems. I think my problem was because I had many different versions of JDKs. I have done a complete re-install. I would be really grateful to you (and anyone else) for help with this problem.
I have re-installed JSDK1.4.2_03, set the "path" variable to "C:\JSDK1.4.2_03".
When I compile using "javac" I get an error saying "javac" is not recognised.
When I compile using "C:\j2sdk1.4.2_03\bin\javac Freq.java" no error is thrown.
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Problems Installing Envy D410 Software on my Macbook - OX Lion 7.5

When I try to use the HP Installation Wizard - I get as far as the Installation Type screen and then I cant go any further. The blue "Install" button just flashes.
Any suggestions? It's driving me crazy!
Thanks

Hello @Hilsalive,
Welcome to the HP Support Forums! I see you are trying to install your HP Envy 100 to your MacBook running the Lion 10.7.7 Operating system, you are using the HP Printer Installer Wizard however you keep getting an error. The reason this is happening is because the HP Printer Installer Wizard was designed for Windows users, it is not compatible with the Mac.
Please go ahead and complete the steps listed below to get started:
Scrub/ Uninstall
• Open the Applications folder > HP or Hewlett Packard folder > HP Uninstaller
• Click continue, click on one of the printers in the list.
• * Only do this step if you do not have any other HP Printers. Hold down Control, Option and Command, While holding the three buttons down,
• Click uninstall.
Reset Printing System
1. Click the Apple icon ( ), and then click System Preferences.
2. In the Hardware section, click Print & Fax/Scan. The Print & Fax/Scan dialog box opens.
3. Right-click (or Ctrl +click) in the left panel, and then click Reset printing system…
4. Click OK to confirm the reset.
5. Type the correct Name and Password.
6. Click OK to reset the printing system. The Print & Fax dialog box shows no printer selected
Note: This will remove all printers in the print and Fax/Scan, any printer removed can be re-added later by clicking the plus (+) symbol..
Repair Disk Permissions
1.On the Dock, click Applications, and then click Utilities.
2.Double-click Disk Utility.
3.Highlight your hard drive/partition on the left (by default this is "Macintosh HD").
4.Click the Repair Disk Permissions button at the bottom of the window.
5.Once the repair is complete, restart the computer.
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HP Full Feature Software and Drivers - OS X v10.7 Lion
I hope this helps, please let me know the outcome!
Thanks,
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Problems installing third party software on Mountain Lion.

I received message "Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers." Where is this security setting so I can change it to be able to install third party software? "
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Open the Security & Privacy preferences. Click on the General tab. At the bottom you will find your Gatekeeper settings. Click on the lock icon and authenticate so you can change the selection. If software does not have a developer's signature in it then the software will not be installed until you change the selection to "Anywhere."

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I have just ordered a MBA and was wondering how I install my software (Parallels, Office 2011 etc) if I don't have a SuperDrive. I have a MBP at work and thought I may be able to use the disk drive on it somehow.
Can anyone steer me in the right direction.
Thanks

Another way is to transform (burn) the Application CD's to .iso files (either on Mac or Windows), then copy the file across the network, or via Flash drive to your mac and install that way. Worked pretty well for me.
For something like Parallels (and other apps), visit the site to download a trial version via the web (which is essentially the full version, just waiting on a key), then apply your license. That works also for a lot of software where the company puts the demo's on the web.
Even with Parallels (building a Windows VM), you can burn the Windows disk to an .iso, copy that over and use the Windows .iso to create the VM within the Mac Parallels app. Lots of options out there, just have to experiment some (and ask where you don't know).

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Hi, I switched my early 2011 MBP's superdrive with a Corsair SSD a couple of months ago and managed to install windows 7 on it with a usb key and bootcamp using the VMWare method (A long and tricky process, but it worked). Everything was working well until some system files on my win7 drive were damaged (Impossible to launch the wlan service, frequent random freezes, etc.). I tried to repair the system install but wasn't able to do so (Impossible to repair on boot since I have no DVD drive and my system restore option was unabled for disk space reasons...). I then tried to reinstall (overwrite) windows 7 via bootcamp (I created a new win7 install usb stick, then tried to reinstall it at boot but it said something like "No installation disc found, please insert the win7 install dvd and press any key", in other words, windows boot utility wasn't able to see my usb stick).
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"I tried to reinstall it at boot but it said something like "No installation disc found, please insert the win7 install dvd and press any key", in other words, windows boot utility wasn't able to see my usb stick"...

Problem installing third party software

I have encountered an issue whereby on trying to install downloaded upgrades to third party software I am asked to insert a disk entitled with my user name. At first I put this down to dodgy software, but have now had the same issue with installing Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0. The installation software appears to be something called iNosso.
Essentially the installation gets as far as stating "This software was successfully installed" but before coming up with the summary window comes up with:
*Please insert the "username" disc to*
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Allan, I had hoped not to have to go through the steps you suggest as one of the reasons for doing Migration Assistant was to avoid re-installing all my applications and all the relevant license information. Also note that my old apps are running fine it is just third party installers that appear to be the issue. As a test I ran the Apple installer loading some additional apps that came with the computer with no issues. I would also add that all my applications old and new appear to be running without issue. Indeed even those apps affected by this installation issue (incl Acrobat Reader 9.0) seem to run normally so it does appear to be an annoying glitch in the installation that simply stops the automatic completion of the process.
My nervousness however is that something more sinister is going on in the background that I am not aware of that may affect the performance of the computer going forward.
However from both yours and Barry's comments it would appear that this is not a common fault therefore is likely to be peculiar to the way I have set things up so in order to resolve I will have to try either re-installation of everything per Barry or a re-installation of apps as you suggest. Now I just need someone to find me the time!!
If anyone else has come across this issue before and found an easier resolution I would be eternally grateful. Thank you Allan and Barry for the speed of your responses and your suggestions.

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How do I install Dreamweaver and Photoshop software without an optical drive, plus I have files on MacBook Pro to transfer but I do not want ti transfer everything and Transfer Assistant does not allow enough tight selection

Buy an external optical drive to use.
Borrow a Mac with an optical drive. Clone the DVD to a USB flash drive.
Connect to another Mac via Target Disk Mode and use the other computer's optical drive.
Connect another Mac to your home network and transfer over the network.

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