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Issue with my iMac
I love Macs and have only owned them. Still, there are occasional issues. This new one (only a few months old) has been great up to now.
I want to make some photo CD's for friends. Seems any photo or all purpose CD I buy just will not be recognized by my drive and just gets spit right back out. I'm not sure if it's a brand (of CD) issue or a bad drive. I've tried Fuji Film and Sony brands and there's no success. Meanwhile my wife's MacBook accepts them w/o any problem. Both are the new Intell based machines. Does audio CD's just fine but only specific audio only blanks. Docs on the computer say it is supposed to read and write any kind. Any suggestions welcome...hate to take it in for work.
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What are you using for burn software? Built in or third party?
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06-30-2008, 07:55 PM
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I've tried both. The iPhoto program has decent directions for making such a cd but the drive will not recognize the blanks. Also tried Dragonburn...same result. I've done recent software/firmware upgrades and restarts. Still no success. I suspect it's a drive issue but just thought I'd toss it out here in case someone had a similar problem and found a fix.
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06-30-2008, 08:07 PM
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Really stupid question here, please don't be offended.
It's an iMac so loads on the right side. When you are putting the media in is the label facing the front or back of the machine?
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Not a stupid question at all. Yes, loads on the right side. Label goes toward me but I've tried it both ways. Thanks, BTW, for your interest. I'm just wondering if it likes just one brand of CD but buying them is getting expensive. Some are picky it seems. Apple store techy was little help but said it should read any blank disks..
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06-30-2008, 08:29 PM
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Yeah media should not be an issue.
Sony is good media, if you were buying 100 count sleeves for $10 online I'd question it. Try this, in the "CDs & DVDs" panel in System Prefs, make sure "Ignore" is not set. Try booting the machine from the Install CD's. If booting from them fails I'd say the drive was a lemon. Gotta go to bed. Will check in the morning.
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Checked the System pref. and all are correct...none are ignore.
Not sure I have the boot cd. Likely the drive I guess. Thanks for your help...
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06-30-2008, 08:57 PM
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Try cleaning it. A lot of times, dust/hair/etc gets stuck around the lens and totally messes with the behaviour of the drive.
For $15 or so, you can get a CD/DVD with a little brush on it and some cleaner that you can run in the drive. I've done this a few times, and it's worked wonders. $0.02 |
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06-30-2008, 09:14 PM
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