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  1. Giuanniello

    External DVD reader advise needed

    Have a bunch of DVDs I would like to rip before they go lost or ruined, the only Mac I still own with a DVD player is a 2010 (!!!) Mini which categorically refuses to read disks, thinking to get an external one but won't know where to land and if whatever USB drive would make it, any suggestion...
  2. Z

    how to check my dvd drive

    The DVDdrive of my mid 2010imac, seems to fail to read CDs and DVDs i mount. Ive installed 2 SSDs and i was thinking that maybe something happened and i might either unplugged or damaged the optical drive cause it was working before. Im not certain what could of happened, but i do find it a bit...
  3. Heindijs

    Resolved Some questions about IDE to SATA for DVD drives for a Powermac G4

    Hello everyone. I bought a Quicksilver Powermac G4 at a thrift store today and sadly the DVD drive is no longer working. I felt like it was to much hassle to clean or lubricate it (in fact, I did that to no effect) so I'll just buy another one. The problem is that there are obviously no more...
  4. D

    DVD not mounting after installing High Sierra

    I have a Mid 2011 21.5" Mac with optical dvd running High Sierra, 10.13.6. After installing high sierra the dvd drive no longer mounts a dvd when inserted. It just spins and then eventually ejects the DVD. Any suggestions? Thanks
  5. E

    VLC no longer plays DVD from other region

    I have a Macbook Pro that I bought in 2014. It came with Mavericks installed and I never bothered to update the system until last year when the hard drive crashed and I had to reinstall everything. I have Sierra now. Before the crash/update, I was able to play DVDs from any region using VLC, but...
  6. Rldavis829

    Disk drive not reading discs

    So I have a MacBook Pro with El Capitan 10.11.6 and the dvd drive started being funny a few weeks ago. It now spits out discs that it used to read. *Not all discs. It still reads some but not all.* They’ll spin for a few seconds and you’ll hear it try then it spits it back out. These are dvds...
  7. C

    DVD drive region changes MBP

    Hello all, this may be the dumbest question you've read this whole day, but I'm going to ask it anyway. I watch a lot of Region 2 DVD's here in the US and I've used 4/5 region changes on my MBP. My question is... if I were to buy an external DVD drive would I be able to have that one set to play...
  8. it9997

    Suggestion for DVD or BLU-RAY drive

    I have to change my internal DVD multi drive (Mac Pro 2010). Do you have any suggestions? Suggestions for Blu-ray drives are also welcome. Thank you in advance!