Marc - Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!! I registered for this site specifically so that I could leave a reply saying how incredibly useful your post was.Like you I had the same problem and googled - the original question popped up and I checked the Finder settings etc. Or to post comments#4 Laptop Power RequiredSubmitted by Bridget on 17 February, 2017. Lo and behold, the drive started working!The famous tech support mantras prevail again, 'Have you tried turning it on and off again?' 'Are you sure everything is plugged in?' D'oh!You probably have it solved by now but it's good to have this up here for reference since this thread was the first resource I found on google for the problem.Best wishes,Marc. I disconnected the DVD drive, connected my laptop to the power adapter, rebooted just to be safe. Tried all my USB ports, the drive was powering on and spinning but my MacBook wouldn't recognize it.I remembered that for some high power consuming devices, Mac OS requires the laptop is plugged in before it will provide enough power for the external device to run properly. Hi Khafsa,I found this thread after googling for a similar problem, in this case a BenGoo external DVD-RW drive. Or to post comments#2 Thanks but no joySubmitted by Khafsa2015 on 25 August, 2015.
I hope someone can chime in and continue to point you in the right direction.Hopefully, this at least gives you a few beginning steps to try before moving on to the really geeky stuff.Good luck.Kevin. From the finder, hit command, shift, U to bring up utilities and select 'Disk Utility.' 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.Hopefully, this will show the drive.If this doesn't work, any diagnostics from here on out is far above my head. Here is where you'll see any drives that are connected and accessible.Ĭheck and see if the drive is there.If this doesn't work, head over to disk utility. 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.Another thing to check is to see if it's even showing up in the 'Computer' folder of the finder.
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