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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Rejecting DVD-R but not CDs
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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 690376" data-attributes="member: 56231"><p>My sympathies for your situation. The reason you cannot see the disk icon or eject the disk normally is that it is not mounting. Why that is so could be something as simple as a dirty laser lens - have you tried cleaning it? Use Google for Take Apart Mac Mini. And, as harryb says, optical drives do fail.</p><p></p><p>You can determine what brand of CD drive is in your Mac Mini through Disk Utility, maybe System Profiler. Then you can investigate (eg. via Google) any issues concerning that brand of drive and if there are solutions to the problem. Most answers I've seen say (more-or-less) "give up on the internal drive, get an external one". Pioneer brand is reliable and works well with Mac. Optical drives are not expensive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 690376, member: 56231"] My sympathies for your situation. The reason you cannot see the disk icon or eject the disk normally is that it is not mounting. Why that is so could be something as simple as a dirty laser lens - have you tried cleaning it? Use Google for Take Apart Mac Mini. And, as harryb says, optical drives do fail. You can determine what brand of CD drive is in your Mac Mini through Disk Utility, maybe System Profiler. Then you can investigate (eg. via Google) any issues concerning that brand of drive and if there are solutions to the problem. Most answers I've seen say (more-or-less) "give up on the internal drive, get an external one". Pioneer brand is reliable and works well with Mac. Optical drives are not expensive. [/QUOTE]
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