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need help wit burning dvd

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Hi, I need help wit burning dvd's..I just got my Mac, few days ago and I was trying to burn some dvd and as soon as I put blank dvd it ejects. I don't understand why.. I have Combo drive, and in system profiler it says this: CD-Write: -R, -RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw.. I don't understand, cause I thought if you have combo drive that you can read/write both cd's/dvd's..
Please I need some help..
Thanks
 
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Sorry to tell you but I believe it is the Super Drive that writes CDs and DVDs. Combo drive, I believe, will read both but only write to CD.
 
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Sorry to tell you but I believe it is the Super Drive that writes CDs and DVDs. Combo drive, I believe, will read both but only write to CD.

You are correct sir!
 
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I know, I just checked.. I wasn't sure, cause on my PC I was able to do both...
I guess this version of Mac is not supporting burning dvd's..
But thanks anyway...
 
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The version is fine, you're just lacking the hardware.
 
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I went to Apple store and they told me that this version does not support burning dvd.. I didn't say that...;-)))
 

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