Optical disks are becoming rare and if you really need one, just use USB DVD drive. Personally, I would just remove it and be done. iFixit has a guide for replacing the optical drive - it's fairly simple.

I'm assuming it's a 2010 MacBook Pro since there was no MacBook made in 2010 and the MacBook Air doesn't have an optical drive. So, you need to replace it (or simply remove it). If it was already set up so that the external drive would appear on the desktop then continue to follow the. Since the drive is mechanical, odds favor that the drive itself is the problem. Choose Preferences > General and make sure that there is a tick beside External Drives. As long as it gets power, the drive will 'make noise.' It's possible that the cable/connector to the logic board went bad, but very, very unlikely. The optical drive is attached to the SATA bus, so if the system can see it, it's not working. It also seems like my Mac doesn't recognize the optical drive at all it isn't listed anywhere and system info -> burn disks says it couldn't find any drive for it. If you're not hearing that - the drive is dead. Macs with these optical drives will make that tell-tale noise of the optical heads moving back and forth looking to see if there's media installed. Once the Disk Utility application is open, simply select your. From the Go menu, select Utilities and then double-click on the Disk Utility application. Another way is to open the Finder application and then click on the Go menu.

When you turn a Mac on, it will do a scan of all attached devices (disk drives, CD/DVD drives, USB, etc.) to look for all the potential bootable media. One way is to simply connect the drive to your Mac and then restart the computer.

You can insert media before the system has even booted. It doesn't block the CD, but also doesn't try to pull it in or make any noise.

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