So he bought the external apple super drive. For instance, a couple years ago, my uncle got a new 2015 MBP that didn't have the CD super drive built in. To put my 2 sense in with this, Some of these external CD drives do not work with older MacBooks. Hopefully, this at least gives you a few beginning steps to try before moving on to the really geeky stuff.

I hope someone can chime in and continue to point you in the right direction. If this doesn't work, any diagnostics from here on out is far above my head. In that list, you will see any drive and volume that is currently connected to the system, even if it might not be directly accessible from the finder. From the finder, hit command, shift, U to bring up utilities and select 'Disk Utility.' If this doesn't work, head over to disk utility. Here is where you'll see any drives that are connected and accessible. With a disk inserted, hit command, shift, C to go to the root of the computer. When in the finder, hit command comma to bring up the finder prefs and make sure that 'CD's and DVD's' is checked to show on the desktop.Īnother thing to check is to see if it's even showing up in the 'Computer' folder of the finder. VicTsing USB 2.0 Slim External DVD-ROM CD-RW Combo Drive Burner Writer for HP Dell IBM Sony Toshiba Acer Apple Asus - Laptop Netbook Notebook PC - Black Reading the reviews on Amazon, some other customers have used it with Mac perfectly fine. The drive does recognise the laptop as it powers up and am able to insert and remove CDs etc, but my Mac is not registering it. The disk slot only opens if the cd drive is connected to a laptop, and once connected to my laptop I am able to insert and remove DVDs etc: it's just nor appearing in my desktop or anything. The description says that it is compatible with Mac, but when I plug it in, the cd drive does not appear on my desktop. And just bought a external cd drive from VICTECH on Amazon.

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