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Optical Drive Replacement
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<blockquote data-quote="jcgg" data-source="post: 780377" data-attributes="member: 80349"><p>Neither System Profiler nor Disk Utility recognize the drive. I did purchase a USB external drive. But as I discovered later when I upgraded to Leopard, the mini does not recognize a USB drive on bootup. Therefore I could not boot from Leopard. I then had to purchase a firewire drive which the mini recognizes on boot up, enabling me to boot the Leopard disk.</p><p></p><p>The old Matshita drive failed to read the Leopard disk in order to boot from it. This drive plays music CD's just fine and is recognized. I have not tried to have it burn anything. </p><p></p><p>What is annoying is the replacement drive for the Matshita is exactly the same drive as the Matshita and why the mini does not recognize the drive is beyond me. So what I am trying to find out is other then slide a replacement drive into the bus is there something else that needs to be done in order for the mini to recognize the drive?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jcgg, post: 780377, member: 80349"] Neither System Profiler nor Disk Utility recognize the drive. I did purchase a USB external drive. But as I discovered later when I upgraded to Leopard, the mini does not recognize a USB drive on bootup. Therefore I could not boot from Leopard. I then had to purchase a firewire drive which the mini recognizes on boot up, enabling me to boot the Leopard disk. The old Matshita drive failed to read the Leopard disk in order to boot from it. This drive plays music CD's just fine and is recognized. I have not tried to have it burn anything. What is annoying is the replacement drive for the Matshita is exactly the same drive as the Matshita and why the mini does not recognize the drive is beyond me. So what I am trying to find out is other then slide a replacement drive into the bus is there something else that needs to be done in order for the mini to recognize the drive? [/QUOTE]
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