- #Used apple cd player for macbook install#
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- #Used apple cd player for macbook drivers#
- #Used apple cd player for macbook manual#
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If you leave it, the drive will sometimes be quiet for days, but you know it's there and one false move - accidentally clicking on that icon - starts the maddening revving cycle. If you use the usual methods to try to eject it (such as choosing "Eject" from the Finder, or dragging it to the Trash), you can be rewarded by an endlessly revving optical drive, as the disc is constantly spun up, remounted and clicks as it fails to eject. It will spin the drive up, trying to read the disc, sometimes repeatedly. If a disc becomes stuck in the drive for some reason, it can quickly become a cause of irritation and frustration.
#Used apple cd player for macbook manual#
In the old days, Apple provided a manual eject button you pushed in with a paperclip however, Macs released in the past few years have been lacking this handy feature. What has been driving me crazy is what happens when someone inserts a DVD into a broken drive which then refuses to eject it. Whatever the reason, I currently have four Macs with shot optical drives. It may well be a side-effect of kids - one of which was the subject of one of my first GeekDad posts, way back in May 2007 (in that case, it was paper shoved in an iMac's DVD slot). That may have something to do with the amount of pet fur flying around here or the frequent renovations that have been known to kick up dust. In my experience, the optical drive is often the first thing to fail on Macs, at least around my house. Why buy new hardware when you have something that already works, right? The same logic applies to using a Windows keyboard on a Mac, and many other common peripherals that are compatible with both a Mac and PC, even if they require some minor tinkering to get working as intended.With the latest round of super thin iMacs it introduced last year, Apple did away with optical drives in its all-in-one desktop PCs. Of course you could also just get a different external DVD-RW / CDRW drive too at less cost, as many of the other solutions either work immediately with plug-and-play in Windows and Mac OS, but the SuperDrive situation is helpful if you already have one from a Mac, or you want to stay consistent with Apple hardware.
#Used apple cd player for macbook drivers#
Once the drivers are installed properly in Windows, the Apple SuperDrive should accept discs, read, write, and eject them as expected, just like it does on the Mac. Note that if you’re on a notably older Windows release, you’d want to download an earlier version of Boot Camp drivers that contain the 32-bit exe rather than the 64-bit exe, and otherwise it should work the same as well. This should work to get an Apple SuperDrive working on any modern Windows version, including Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.
#Used apple cd player for macbook install#
You must be in Windows to run and install the actual Bootcamp Drivers for SuperDrive, however.
#Used apple cd player for macbook zip file#
These steps are intended to be from taken from Windows, however you could download the Boot Camp Support Software on a Mac and then transfer the zip file to Windows through USB, networking, or your method of choice if need be, or you could just extract the “\Bootcamp\Drivers\Apple\ AppleODDInstaller64.exe” (note it will be labeled “AppleODDInstaller.exe” if it’s 32-bit version) file on a Mac and transfer that exe installer to Windows.