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    What's up with my Superdrive?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Punky, Nov 25, 2006.

  1. Punky

    Punky Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I bought a second hand Macbook C1D in great condition. I tried to burn a DVD the other day and it didn't quite work out. According to what I know about OS X (which is admittedly not a whole **** lot), I just have to insert a blank DVD and then it pops open an app and it burns it. (I did this with a normal CDR and there was no issue.) Instead, my MB spits out the disk three times and no app ever pops up.

    I was using HP DVD-Rs. Should I use DVD+Rs? Or is it time to invoke the power of Applecare?
     
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    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Which MacBook do you have? Not all of them have DVD burners, the base models only have a CD burner/DVD reader IIRC.
     
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    Punky Notebook Enthusiast

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    It's a superdrive capable book. It's got a 2.0 Gig C1D and a gig of RAM.
     
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    teknerd122 Notebook Evangelist

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    Meh...you bought a refurb with at least 90 days of Applecare, right? Exercise your right to Apple's services! (are you sure that iMovie is installed on the computer? If you did a fresh install there's an option to not install that software, in which case you won't be burning many movies).
     
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    Punky Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've got iMovie on there, yeah... I'm just trying to find out if this is my macbook or something else... I'd really rather not take it in for service if I don't have to. My life is already insanely busy without a long trip to the apple store.

    It's not a refurb, it's secondhand, but the warranty still stands (one of the great things about apple).
     
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    Ok, if it has a SuperDrive there are a few things you can try. First try repairing permissions, sometimes that does the trick. Second, create a new account with admin rights and try it there, see if it is something specific to your account. As a last ditch effort you can do a non-destructive reinstall of OS X. It won't harm your files, just choose the backup and archive or something like that.
     
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