Superdrive, mavericks

Hola, que tal.
Tengo un iMac de principios de 2010.
Por default viene pre-cargado con Snowleopard.
Al actualizar el sistema operativo a Lion, el superdrive interno del mac dejó de funcionar.
Por internet encontré algunos trucos para poder poner en funcionamiento el superdrive y funcionó correctamente.
Pero ahora, tras la actualización a Mavericks, de nuevo dejó de funcionar la unidad de DVD.
Y ahora no encuentro algún tutorial ni alguna información con respecto a ésta falla.
Sabrán Ustedes de qué forma puedo hacer que funcione mi superdrive?.
Gracias, espero sus comentarios.
Saludos

I 100% agree with BobRz above....
I purchased the OWC slim enclosure for my displaced Superdive (this one) and despite the claims on the description that it'll work off bus power, it wouldn't.... purchased the optional power adapter for the enclosure and it works flawlessly....
and I wouldn't take the fact it works in Windows as anything for the reason why it won't work in OSX

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Mavericks upgrade and superdrive

Hello, Mavericks is installed on my macbook pro 13' mi-2010 since yesterday but now my notebook don't accept any CD or DVD. Is it normal or is thare a solution. Thanks for your help. JEFF

I have posted a fix to the internal Mavericks Superdrive problem in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5515067
Pharlock, maybe the trick will work for your external Superdrive too?
agb76 wrote:
I had the same problem after installing Mavericks on a late 2008 MBP.
I tried reseting NVRAPM/PRAM and SMC but that did not work.
Then I ran some drutil commands and eventually got the superdrive to wake up.
I'm not sure which command did the trick so please try running these commands from terminal in the following order.
drutil status
drutil info
drutil getconfig
drutil eject
Now try inserting a DVD. If that doesn't work please try the above sequence with a DVD partially inserted in the drive. I dont think that matters, but I did have a CD partially inserted when I fixed my superdrive.

DVD player not working with superdrive on Mavericks

Hi, I have installed Mavericks on my MacBook Pro. I have two SSD HDD and no internal optical drive. I am using the Superdrive externally through USB. It worked fine under Mountain Lion. Right after installing Mavericks when inserting a DVD DVD Player came up with the message "Initializing error on drive". Hope anybody has found the solution. Ca't find any answers anywhere.

Hooray I got it working!!
Vishva's advice was correct but incomplete, the important part that was missing is that you need to replace ALL occurences of the word 'internal' with 'external' when you hexedit the file he recommended, I found the following web link with the full instructions.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20070591-263.html
Incidentally, when I tried to edit the file directly I was given an error saying it was read only and wouldn't allow me to edit it, so what I did was save the file to a new name, make all the edits and then copy the new file into the correct directory, then using terminal issue the following commands
cd /System/Library/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A
then once you are in the directory containing the old and new framework file you need to copy the old file to a backup name for safe keeping, so issue the following command:
sudo cp DVDPlayback DVDPlayback-backup
Then rename the new file you created (replace {yourfile} with the name you stored it as!) to the live one using:
sudo cp {yourfile} DVDPlayback
If you list the files in this directory using the following command you should see all the files and their ownership and permissions:
ls -alh
all files should be owned by 'root', if the newly created file is owned by your username, in my case it was, then you can change its ownership by typing the following:
sudo chown root DVDPlayback
I then exited terminal, rebooted just to be on the safe side, and hey presto the DVD drive now works perfectly, shame apple didn't put something in place in mavericks to check for this, maybe they will in future updates...
Hope this helps anyone having the same issues, and thanks Vishva for pointing me in the right direction!

Superdrive keeps ejecting disk on Mavericks sign on.

I've just installed a fresh copy of Mavericks and have a strange problem.
My Apple Mac Pro "Eight Core" 2.4 (2010/Westmere) boots up fine until it gets to the Mavericks sign on screen and if there is a disk inside the superdrive then ejects it. I have 1 superdrive and a MCE Blu-Ray drive and both behave in the same manner.
So, I booted up from my old LM and it doesnt do it, I cant ever recall my Mac doing this in LM, Lion or SL, Leopard.
My Mavericks install has various software installed on it and thought it may be one of the apps playing up and causing the disk to eject. I formated a new drive and installed Maverick on it and it still ejected the disk.
So, software ruled out! I set about resetting my NVRAM & PRAM still didn't cure it.
Booted up in Safe Mode and still the same.
Ran Apple Hardware Test (AHT) no problems found.
Ran pernissions repair and still keeps doing it.
I know the simplest thing would be not to have a disk inside the drive but it's little things like this that eeeeerrrrrr!!!!!! you know what I mean!
I'm out of ideas, anyone else have this problem? and help?
Below is my hardware overview:
Model Name:          Mac Pro
Model Identifier:          MacPro5,1
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          2.4 GHz
Number of Processors:          2
Total Number of Cores:          8
L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
L3 Cache (per Processor):          12 MB
Memory:          8 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed:          5.86 GT/s
Boot ROM Version:          MP51.007F.B03
SMC Version (system):          1.39f11
SMC Version (processor tray):          1.39f11
Serial Number (system):          YM03420YEUF
Serial Number (processor tray):          J503303RYBH8A
Hardware UUID:          53A5F426-72FB-5420-9B33-00BD183DAC49

Anyone????

Installing a fresh copy of OS X Mavericks from USB on iMac 12,1 with broken SuperDrive.

Hi,
I want to get a fresh copy of OS X Mavericks on my iMac 12,1 (mid-2011 - i5 2,5GHz, 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon 6750M with 512MB) with broken SuperDrive. I made a pendrive with DiskMaker X, but I can't boot it anymore on iMac. My flash drive isn' corrupt - it performs well on MacBook Pro. What can I do to install it on iMac?
Greetings,
Jakub Borys
Post scriptum - Sorry for my poor English.

Oh, man, I wish I had something useful to offer. It sounds bad. Really bad.
Do you have a friend -- or possibly a Mac ot work -- from which you could make a new USB Mavericks installer? I only say that because I've read of a few problems here and there with boot drives made with DiskMaker X. What I'd recommend, if it's at all possible, is to download the latest Mavericks DMG file, reformat the USB drive with a fresh GUID partition and then burn the disk image onto it with the Mavericks built in createinstallmedia method. Here's a link to an article which describes how to do it: http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install -drive.html. This is, in fact, the very article which got me onto the right path.
You'd think that a bootable Mavericks installer would be a bootable Mavericks installer no matter how it was made. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Superdrive inop. after Mavericks install, any suggestions?

I installed Mavericks on my 2011 iMac via App Store about 3 or 4 weeks ago and all seemed fine at first, noticed a few programs loaded slower and wake time was a little longer, but nothing major until I noticed about a week ago when I put in a cd to add to iTunes that I had to push it in almost all the way before the drive would accept it. You could hear the drive try to read the disc and then it just ejected. I have tried several discs this week and same result, blank cd, dvd, factory cd, all spit out after a few seconds. I have browsed through the support threads and found that this was apparently an issue with the Mountain Lion upgrade as well, and a few people seem to also have this issue with Mavericks. I have seen the posts where people say that the upgrade "pushed an already dying device over the edge" but I find it extremely hard to believe that the drive would function but not recognize media inserted into it without there being a firmware issue of some kind and as little as I use the drive, I seriously doubt that it was "on the edge" either.
So far, I have tried a re-install of Mavericks and "spamming" the terminal with drutil commands, resetting the SMC and resetting the NVRAM/PRAM, none of which have been successful. Since the re-install, the drive now tries to eject the disc as soon as you start to put it in about 3 times and then will let you insert the disc and spits it back out within a few seconds. I am not sure if this is part of the issue, but now when I look in disk utility, the superdrive is there but the letters are greyed out, and when I tried to display it on the desktop, the hard drive would show up, but not the superdrive, even when a disc was in it. It seems as if the OS no longer recognizes the drive.
Any thoughts or suggestions other than "buy a new drive" would be appreciated.

Time to visit an Apple repair station.

Apple superdrive problems internal after mavericks upgrading

Recently upgrading my iMac 27 inch mid 2011 to mavericks my internal superdrive ejects any disc after inserting it after 10 seconds and try's to load but ejects it out. Was working before I upgrading it. Followed all of apple troubleshooting but to no avail still the same problem, would a full clean installation fix the problem or does the drive need to be replaced.

WiljanDeroo wrote:
I don't think this could be a coincidence. The reason that is because the same thing happened to my iMac and the one from my mother. And those are the only ones upgraded to osx Mavericks. We did not want to upgrade to Mavericks because it has a lot of bugs. I haven't found any fixes for this and I also would like to know how to fix it.
Just wanted to say that he's not the only one
I have no issues with my 2011's 27" Superdrive and I've been on Mavericks since day one. In fact for the past 3 months I've used my SuperDrive almost daily with no failures at all.

Superdrive(s) not working after mavericks install?

After installing Mavericks, my internal superdrives will not function properly. I have two superdrives installed on my Early 2009 Mac Pro with 2.93 GHz quad core Intel processor. I insert a disc, close the drawer, I hear some whirring/spinning sounds, then the drawer opens up. Same result with either drive.
I was trying to install tax prep software, get the same non-function if I try to run music CD. Cleaned the lens with compressed air, and also a CD Laser Lens Cleaner disc.
I use the drives occasionally. However, the last time, prior to Maverick download and install, both drives worked fine.
Are the drives supported by Mavericks? Should I reset the SMC?
I have looked through some recent threads, and this issue seems to come up with increasing frequency, with many varied and sometimes conflicting results. I noted with some chagrin one pragmatic response of buying an external optical drive and forgoing the attempt to regain function of the factory-installed superdrives. Perhaps I didn't delve far enough into prior threads to find an answer.
What are other's doing?

Look around - this is clearly a known issue to many users. We have all tried EVERYTHING to get this to work - about the only solution I have seen is to downgrade your OS - that will get the drive working again. Apple is ignoring the problem - sabotaging your equipment is not a concern of Tim Cook while he is going about ruining any innovation Apple ever had. Seen the new itunes? You get my drift.

2007 MBP, broken superdrive, can't read USB : Installing Mavericks

Hello,
I need to install fresh OSX Mavericks on a new and bigger harddrive on my late 2007 MBP (broken superdrive, and inability to read/boot from USB on startup.) I've tried cloning the previous harddrive using Disk Utility but it just simply doesn't work, because of the "hidden" Recovery Partition that Mavericks incorporates. Both my iMac and MBP has been running Mavericks flawlessly and I have the installation .dmg as backup.
- Now, is it possible to fresh install (bootable) Mavericks using my iMac to a new 2.5 harddrive using USB? (yes, I have all the tools, SATA to USB, etc)
- Does it matter if I'm installing the OS using iMac and put it on MBP later on?
- Will Carbon Copy Cloner work on Mavericks (regarding the hidden recovery partition)
And of course please let me know if there's any simpler workaround,
Thanks.

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Error: Not Found returned from legacy loader
Error: Not found from LocateDevicePath
Error: Not found from LocateDevicePath
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Error: Not found from LocateDevicePath
Error: Load error while (reopening) our installation volume.
The firmware refused to boot from the selected volume. Note that external hard drives are not well-supported by Apple's firmware for legacy OS booting.
Not sure what to do...

Cannot install Windows 8.1 with BootCamp on Mavericks

I have a brand spankin' new Late 2013 27" iMac, fully updated, with a 3TB Fusion drive. I have thrice attempted to install Windows 8.1 via BootCamp 5.5, with the 64bit edition DVD on the SuperDrive, and allotting 1TB out of the 3 available. There are no other partitions besides OS X and the BootCamp partition. The Windows installer successfully begins, but each time it cannot locate any partitions to load itself on. The list is just...blank.
I've already scoured the forums here for support, and tried several claimed remedies, such leaving all USB ports clear (except for the SuperDrive) until after install (even removing the flash drive with the Apple support files), and had a long chat with Apple Care today...they said the engineers would get back to me in about a week. I read somewhere that hard drives over 2.2TB may be an issue, but Apple states that Mavericks has no problem with this, leading me to believe maybe Windows 8.1 is still lagging in this department.
To that end, I recall someone, somewhere mentioning how to carefully partition the drive to get around this, and that Windows absolutely, positively, had to be on the 4th partition, including the hidden partitions such as Recovery, Boot OS X, etc. Only problem is that Disk Utility is showing way more hidden partitions than this, and they seem to be unremovable.
Does anybody have a solution/workaround for this, or are both products still too new to have a found a way to play nicely together?

I did it. After fours hours and two hours on the phone with Apple support, I installed Windows 8.1 to my iMac. So, I just wanted to share it with you.
System:
iMac 2013, 27" monitor, 1T fusion drive, wirless keyboard, magic mouse.
Software:
OS X 10.9
Windows 8.1 full version 64bit
(I skipped some steps such as type in software key, choose language, etc.)
1. For my last try, Instead of using Bootcamp assistant to setup partition for Windows, I used disk utility to create an 100G space for Windows with FAT file system and named it BOOTCAMP.
2. Insert Windows CD into the USB super drive.
3. Shutdown iMac.
4. While press and hold the left "option" key, turn on iMac.
5. Select CD/Windows icon to boot.
6. Choose Custom installation
7. Select the partition named BOOTCAMP (I am not sure why it is 200G; I assigned 100G. Well...)
8. Format
And the rest is history. By the way, when Windows restarts during installation, make sure to press and hold the left "option" key to boot up Windows.
I do not know why but I am happy now. As a matter of fact, I am sending this message from Windows 8.1 running on my iMac.
Good luck to you.

My Unused SuperDrive does not work? It keeps ejecting the DVDs.

Hey everyone!
This is my first question on Apple Support Communites and I'm really happy!
I have bought a MacBook Pro and I have owned it since Dec. 31, 2013, and I am so glad! This was a second hand computer bought from a friend.
I bought this very computer for My SuperDrive, as I knew they were being phased out.
I put a CD in - and my Mac just spit it out.
It makes some noises as if the computer is going to read it, but it doesn't. Every Disc just ejects.
This works for all CDs alike: DVDs, Blank CDs, Audio CDs, You name it!
I really need my SuperDrive Working but it really isn't.
Note that the previous owner has NEVER USED IT and I also NEVER USED IT.
My Mac came with an installation disc for Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 and I'm presuming that the Optical Drive was only used to install OS X.
This is my very first Apple Product so I don't really know much at all.
I called Apple and they told me to press a few buttons but that didn't work.
The Apple Employee told me that it SHOULDN'T Be failing as it is a relatively new machine.
I cleaned it out but I think that it is a Software Problem with OS X Mavericks 10.9.1.
Note: I am currently using 10.9.1 but will update to 10.9.2 when I have access to my Mac.
The Reason I say that it is a software problem because the DVD Playback file found in the folder: /System/Library/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A/DVDPlayback
Says Modified 23 Oct 2013, which was when Mavericks was released. Maybe I could get a hold of the original file to reverse the effect.
I would downgrade to Snow Leopard, but my SuperDrive isn't working :'(
Just so you guys know: My MacBook is an Early 2011 13.3" MacBook Pro.
I am also experiencing other difficulties but I won't get into them now.
I live in Australia and I am 14 years old. Sorry if I don't know much about Macs yet (but I guess I know quite a bit about Normal Computers).
Thanks for bearing with my long rant!
Omi Jack

Omi Jack,
It may be that the SuperDrive lens is simply dirty. You can test this out by purchasing an inexpensive DVD/CD cleaning ket - readily available from most electronics stores.
If that doesn't 'fix' the problem, it may be that the SuperDrive simply isn't functioning. You could purchase a replacement for it and install it yourself. I don't know Australian websites that specialize in Mac parts, but you can shop at the US website OWC and I kow that they ship internationally. You may also want to use their live chat and see if they know of a vendor in Australia that would have new SuperDrives in stock.
Try the cleaning method first. You could also take the machine to your local Apple Store or an AASP an get a diagnosis and estimate for repair from them but I would look into replacing it yourself first.
OWC also have videos that show you how to replace the SuperDrive in your particular model.
Good luck,
Clinton

How to get bootcamp to install from USB on Mid 2010 Macbook Pro in Mavericks

Ok, finally ran into my first problem with Mavericks. It's a doozy. Please if anyone has any advice, let me know.
My bootcamp partition was acting a little buggy. I also wanted to make the partition larger, so I went ahead and erased it, made a larger partition and was getting ready to install windows 7.
Unfortunately, little to my knowledge, bootcamp assistant is programmed to not allow installation of Windows via USB if your computer had an optical drive in it's factory delivered form.
I have removed my optical drive in favor of a second hard drive and encased my original superdrive into an External USB hub.
There apparently used to be a solution involving editing the plist.info text document to allow USB installation. However, as of MAVERICKS, this document is now locked and unable to be edited.
I was running windows 7 fine until I scrapped it, and now I have no way to re-install windows short of going through a laborious process of re-installing my optical drive into my laptop, installing, and then re-installing my hard drive back in. The only reason is due to a software bias for my series of laptop because it "used to have" an optical drive.
Does anyone know of any way that I can bypass this issue to get Windows Re-installed to a bootcamp partition on a mid-2010 macbook pro without using the optical drive?
Thanks in advance!

Remove the Boot Camp partition only with Boot Camp Assistant, not with Disk Utility.
Install or Reinstall OS X from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
      left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on
      the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass. Click on
      the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Install button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
           because it is three times faster than wireless.

Initialization error [-70012] in Mavericks

Have a MBP 15”, Early 2011 with a 2 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, 1 TB 72000 rpm HD fused with a 120 GB SSD, running OS X 10.9.1 (12B42) the original CD/DVD SuperDrive is removed for the SSD, but installed into an USB case and connected external via USB.
After installing the SSD and fuse it with the HD, the original, now the external CD/DVD SuperDrive, via USB connected, worked fine under Mountain Lion but now, since upgraded to Mavericks, OS X 10.0.1, it works only with CD’s and even opens DVD’s but the DVD Player does not work at all (initialization error [-70012]) and prevents to watch any DVD movie.
I researched the Apple discussions boards and others but found not any helpful solution. There are not any DVD or iDVD files on my system. Checked visible as well as invisible files and documents. The Terminal also indicates that there is no such CD or DVD (iDVD) “No such file or directory”.
However, the System Profiler shows clearly that there is a MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-8A8: connected with “ Firmware Revision: HB14 / Interconnect: USB / Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive) / Cache: 1024 KB / Reads DVD: Yes / CD-Write: -R, -RW/ DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW / Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO.”
Resetting NVRAM/PRAM did not resolve the issue either. Tried to use 0xED Editor but the command at the “DVDPlayback.framework: /System/Library/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A”, brought no indicators of “Internal” or the equivalent hex code. Any smart individual out there, which can help, step by step to get the DVD Player working?
Thank you.

Logical or not, and that is your opinion, it is how it works and doesn't work. Sorry but the built in DVD Player App only works with the Superdrive installed inside the system.
Maybe you applied the HACK in Mt Lion, and don't recall you did it, and when you upgraded to Mavericks is got overwritten.
Been like that for years with many different versions of OS X and DVD Player App.
If the Superdriove is installed inside the system you can use the DVD Player App with another DVD drive connected by USB but the Superdrive must be installed inside the case, and or connected to the secondary SATA connector.

How to install Windows 7 from a bootable usb in Mavericks

I updated to Mavericks (os x 10.9) a few days ago and finding it near impossible to install windows 7 on my macbook pro mid-2010. I put Windows 7 64 bit on a bootable usb using a windows pc. Any time I try and use the Boot Camp assistant it gives me the two options of (1) installing the latest windows support software from apple and (2) install windows 7. When I try and do either it just fails and says "can't install the software because it is not currently available from the software update server". I've even tried it with a blank usb 8gb free and it says the same thing. I also created a partition myself and tried to boot it up holding the option key and install it that way with the bootable drive in and it still will not download. Is it possible to do it without using the boot camp assistant at all? I've tried to method of removing the "Pre" from the backup assistant in the "Info.plist" and still no luck.

In the last 3 days I've put around 10 hours trying to get windows 7 installed without using a superdrive.
If you still have a cd drive (internal) I promise, as much of a hassle as it sounds it is 10x easier to get a disk and burn windows to it, or simply buy a pre-made windows disk.
Over like 10 threads this is what I found slowly
-You can't install from an external cd drive
-You can't boot from a usb (even if bootcamp makes it for you with the plist tweak)
-The plist tweak won't work in mavericks without using xcode to resign the code (this took me awhile and then I found out the usb was useless anyways)
Otherwise, there is a method that is beyond complicated. It consists of installing half of windows 7 via virtual machine, rebooting, deleting the installed data, replacing it, and finally completeing the install.
I performed this method today on an Early 2011 Macbook pro running 10.9 that has had the disk drive removed in order to add a ssd. I'm documenting it here regardless of whether you need it simply because this information needs to be concise. People on this forum will also tell you it can't be done.
This method is free and legal.
You will need:
-rEFind (older guides will tell you to use rEFit but it is not currently supported by 10.9 this is made by the same developer)
-windows iso w/key
-Virtual box
-NTFS for mac os x (free trial)
This guide is written by user "severin" here http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-1534533.html
1. Make a Boot Camp partition with Boot Camp assistant.
2. Install rEFIt
3. Install a NTFS program for Mac, like Tuxera NTFS(serial at serials.ws) or Paragon NTFS.
4. Install Oracle Virtualbox.
5. Make a virtual disk from the Boot Camp partition, follow step 6 and 7.
6. The first thing we need to do is eject the BootCamp partition – Open “Finder”. “Control- >Click” the “Bootcamp” drive and select “Eject” (You can also the DiskUtility as well)
7. Now for the geeky terminal stuff to make the BootCamp partition useable within VirtualBox. Open a terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities) and enter the following commands. Make sure to press “Return” after each command to run it.
sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk0s3 –Changes the permissions of the BootCamp partition to allow it to be modified (enter your admin password when asked)
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk0 -filename win7raw.vmdk -partitions 3 –Creates 2 files in your home directory, one of which will be used by VirtualBox to access the BootCamp Partition
sudo chown YOUR-USER-NAME-HERE win7raw.vmdk win7raw-pt.vmdk –changes the permissions of the previously created files (Replace YOUR-USER-NAME-HERE with the current user name)
8. Fire up VirtualBox, make a new Virtual Machine on the disk just created.
9. Install Windows on the Virtual Machine just created with a iso image or like so.
Format the Bootcamp partition in the install menu and press install.
10. Before installations restarts automatically after install power off the virtual machine.
11. Restart the computer back into OS X.
12. Remove all files possible in the bootcamp-partition and move in all the files possible from the Windows iso-image.
13. Restart the computer and choose "Boot Windows from partition x" in rEFIt.
14. Install Windows on the same partition as you booted from. Don't format it just click install on it.
15. When Windows is done installing, reboot in to OS X and you can now remove all the before installed programs. You can now boot the Windows-installation by the normal way, holding alt when starting the computer.
16. Smash something in happiness.
We install Windows in VirtualBox to get diskinformation printed on the partition. If you try to boot the partition it will give you "Missing file: C:\Windows\System32\Winload.exe", therefore we replace the files with the DVD-files, to actually boot the windows installation.
Just a couple of notes that I got stuck on:
The commands he uses may not work for your drives, they depend on how your partitions are setup, but if you research this issue with booting (there are lots of threads) there are terminal methods for figuring out the proper drive
Step 8: Use the file you created (windows 7 raw) to create the virtual machine and then under storage upload your windows 7 iso under ide devices.
If you have a windows computer simply make the support drive on there, don't play with bootcamp. Download the support software (just google bootcamp support) and just drag and drop onto a flashdrive. Then run setup when ready.
Good Luck

MacBookPro Maverick 10.9.3 DVD Drive issues

Hi,
I have a MacBook Pro and just downloaded OS X Maverick 10.9.3. Now I am unable to insert CDs and when I try to open my DVD player it says "error no valid DVD drive could be found". Any suggestions?

Hey mjg1983,
Thanks for the question. The following resource provides relevant troubleshooting for your issue, including resetting the SMC:
Apple Computers: Troubleshooting the slot-loading SuperDrive
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2801
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Thanks,
Matt M.

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