How do I get my Mac to recognize an external dvd drive?
External drives (CD or DVD) when connected to a Mac are not listed as a device in the Finder, until a disk (blank or media) is inserted in the drive.Once, inserted, and loaded, the media will appear as a disk in Finder. If it is a blank disk, either iTunes or Finder will let you know about that as well.If you have and it is not recognized, you have two options; 1. Open Disk Utility and see if the drive is recognized but not mounted. 2. Perform a SMC reset.Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your MacAfter the system restarts, try connecting the drive with media. If that works, good. If not, then as John Williams suggested earlier, take it to Apple (they are not called Apple Store anymore!).
Does the new iMac have a disc drive?
No. No Macs in Apple’s current lineup have an optical disc drive. Apple has gotten rid of them for good (setting a precedent with the MacBook Air back in 2008). If you really need to use old fashioned CDs or DVDs with your Mac, you can pickup an external SuperDrive from Apple so that you can use them. If you have a current-generation (late 2016) MacBook Pro or a 12-inch MacBook, you would additionally need an adapter to connect the USB port of the external SuperDrive to the USB-C port of the Mac.
What is the best external hardrive that is compatible with PC, iMac and iPhone?
Mobile phones are usually target devices, not host devices.What this means is that they cannot operate as computers connected to mass storage.In general, this is because most USB devices — which are thumb drives — require power from the host computer, and phones already have a massive power budget constraint, such that they would operate for half an hour or less under such load.There are external “camera connectors” for low power SD card and similar storage you’d use on a camera, and which are usually operated as pigtails off the docking port; however, realize that there are very few Apps which can talk to them, and they nearly universally expect FAT32 as the filesystem on the storage media.
How can I fix my Mac not recognizing my WD external hard drive?
Hey,Let me ask you this first. Did it mounted successfully last time you plugged into the Mac. Was there an unusual behaviour of the disk say an unpleasant clicking noise? When you plug your WD external hard drive to macOS, does it show in Finder or Disk Utility? Perhaps the external hard drive is either listed as unmounted drive in the disk utility or not listed at all. If its unmounted in the Disk Utility then the hard drive name will be greyed out.Here is what Western Digital recommends you to do when WD doesn’t show up https://support.wdc.com/knowledg...File System ProblemWD not getting recognized on macOS because of a possible corruption occurred either on partition table or hfs directory structure corruption. Reformatting the hard drive should fix the problem however to erase such media, it must get listed to Disk Utility.Component FailureCannot rule out the chances of a component failure which is why you should monitor if the External HDD is producing unusual sounds (ticking, buzzing etc.)Try Data Recovery SoftwareData recovery software for Mac allows a free evaluation of the software. You can download Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery tool and connect your troubled external hard drive. Navigate to the software and check if the drive appears in the drive menu. Select a data recovery feature for your external WD hard drive and perform scan to recover all contained data.In case of external hard drives component failure and not getting listed even in the software; the data can be recovered only in a data recovery lab.
How to install an external DVD writer to my iMac?
I just purchased the LG Ultra Slim DVD writer in the model SP60 and hooked it up to my new iMac (OS X 10.9.1) It is connected with the USB cord that came with it and is obviously connected, because it opens and closes just fine. The instructions say it should work right away upon connecting, but no matter how many different DVDs/CDs/ blank discs I try, it just will not show up. Help???
Why aren't new iMacs built with disk drives?
They do have disk drives, other wise they wouldn't boot up.But I assume you meant "optical" drives. No Apple devices ship with optical drives. There are many reasons for this, chief among them is that they allow all Macs to be thinner and operate with fewer moving parts.But more importantly, most people don't need one. Software no longer comes on CDs or DVDs; new versions of the OS are downloaded. In fact, any content you are likely to use would be downloaded. Also, you can buy a cheap external drive that also plays and writes(!) BluRay discs as well as DVDs and CDs for less than $100.
Is seagate expansion compatible with Mac? If yes, does it need reformatting?
Situation #1 You have your important files in the drive from your/your friend's PCNo. It doesn't need reformatting. All you have to do is, download this driver from the official Seagate site. - Paragon Driver for macOS (10.10 and above)· what Paragon does is, it provides write access to the drive in Mac OS without having to reformat it.Situation #2 You don't use PC's at all. Even your friends don't use windows.Go for formatting the disk in MacOS extended (journaled) format (HFS+ format), using disk utility.Here's how you can format (erase) your disk -Disk Utility for macOS Sierra: Erase a volume using Disk UtilityEdit #1 :- There are ways in which you can read MacOS extended format disk in windows and vice versa. How you can do that is an answer for another question.
Seagate external hard drive won't allow me to create a new folder or rename folders on my macbook, why?
When I plug my seagate 1tb external hard drive into my macbook I can browse through the files no problem and open up everything fine... the problem is I cannot rename any folders or files, It won't allow me to merge folders into one, and I can't create a new folder. I have never had this drive password protected. What's the deal? I have always used this hard drive on a windows computer and this is the first time using it on a mac. Someone help me! Thanks!!!!!!!!
Replacing Stock Hard Drive On New (Late 2012) 21.5" iMac?
get a 1 TB external drive and go into the time machine app and the tutorial will tell you how to back up. if you don't want to do that you can do one of 2 things. 1: open a finder window at the top of the sidebar there should be a section that says all my files highlight one of the files within then press command A This will highlight all the files. Then you copy and past into the back up drive. 2: on all Mac OS except linon and mountain lion there is a icon on the desktop that says Macintosh HD click and drag this into the back up drive. Either one of these may take a while due to high amounts of data I would sugest USB 3.0 drives but if you have the patience 2.0 will do just fine