My G5 keeps spitting my DVDs out!

I don't know what's going on with my mac-it seems like 75% of the time I put a dvd in it, it just pops it right back out. What's going on here?

What kind of DVD's are you using? Are these retail version movies and such, or are they blanks or burned copies of things?

It's both-for awhile my copied dvd's would work fine, now almost none of those work, but it's also certain retail versions. For instance, Donnie Darko is spit out everytime I put it in, but my Led Zeppelin DVD works perfectly well.

Perniks said:

It's both-for awhile my copied dvd's would work fine, now almost none of those work, but it's also certain retail versions. For instance, Donnie Darko is spit out everytime I put it in, but my Led Zeppelin DVD works perfectly well.

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Utilities > Disc Utilities > Verify then Repair permissions.

Theres probably a conflict of some kind. That should hopefully clear things up.

BEEEsH said:

Utilities > Disc Utilities > Verify then Repair permissions.

Theres probably a conflict of some kind. That should hopefully clear things up.

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Okay, so I did that, but the disks still won't play. Another friend with a mac said that it was probably just a brand that macs won't play, but I went downstairs and lo and behold, my dvd's play with no problem on our iMac G5. I clicked "verify disk" afterwards and it came up with...

Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
%)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
Invalid volume free block count
uld be %@ instead of %@)",2)
13401769
13392816
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit


1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
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It doesn't give me the option to repair though...

boot up in our restore install disks and use disk utility. there youll be able to repair your hard drive.

iWonder said:

boot up in our restore install disks and use disk utility. there youll be able to repair your hard drive.

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Is that going to clear off all the stuff I have on my harddrive?