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Why is my Mac not burning CDs?
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Energy Saver. If a burned CD “stutters” when you play it in an external CD-RW drive, try playing it in an internal drive or a stereo system. If your CD burn is unsuccessful and your external drive becomes unresponsive, turn the drive off and on to reset it.
How do I reinstall Mac OS X Lion without disk?
Reinstall Your Mac’s OS Without an Installation Disc
- Turn your Mac on, while holding the CMD + R keys down.
- Select “Disk Utility” and click on Continue.
- Select the startup disk and go to the Erase Tab.
- Select the Mac OS Extended (Journaled), give a name to your disk and click on Erase.
- Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility.
How do I burn a DVD on my Mac to play on a DVD player?
Burn CDs and DVDs on Mac
- Insert a blank disc into your optical drive.
- Double-click the disc to open its window, then drag the files and folders you want to burn to the window.
- Arrange and rename the files.
- Choose File > Burn [disc], then follow the instructions.
How do I burn a CD on my Mac without a CD drive?
After you have, open the Control Panel, click Hardware and Sound, and then click DVD or CD Sharing Options. Check the “Enable DVD or CD Sharing” box here. Once you’ve enable the remote disc sharing on either a Mac or Windows computer, you can open the Finder on your Mac without a disc drive.
Why can’t I burn a CD?
Sometimes the problem with burning your CD is that the drive isn’t detected. You will need to make sure that your drive is installed properly. Go to “Start>Control Panel>System>Device Manager” to make sure that your CD drive is listed and that the drivers are installed.
Why do some DVDs not play in my player?
A video burned to a DVD must be burned in a specific way. A WMV or AVI movie file burned to a disc will usually not play in most players unless it is converted to another format first. Special programs exist that convert video files to the right format before they are burned so most players can play them.
Why do some burned DVDs not play?
Possible Reasons for Burned DVDs Not Playing DVD disc format is not compatible with your DVD player. DVD is not clean. DVD has scratches, dust, labels, fingertips, etc. DVD burning speed is too fast to play on DVD player.
How do I burn a CD without a CD drive?
So is it possible to play or burn CDs and DVDs if your computer doesn’t have a CD or DVD drive? Yes… But you still need an optical drive. The easiest way to play or burn CD/DVD discs is to buy an external optical drive. Most optical drive peripheral devices connect via USB and are plug-and-play.
Why is there no disk when trying to install Lion?
From what you describe it sounds like you are trying to install Lion on your newly installed HDD replacement but its not showing as a disk when you try to actually install Mac OS X. That indicates to me that the drive has not yet been formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled, so it is not ready for Lion to install onto it.
What to do when there is no disk on your Mac?
Before you begin, make sure your Mac is connected to the Internet. Restart your Mac. Immediately hold down the Command (⌘) and R keys after you hear the startup sound to start up in OS X Recovery. When the Recovery window appears, select Disk Utility then click Continue.
Why is there not enough free disk space on safari?
Safari could not download the file “blahblahblah.dmg” because there is not enough free disk space. Not sure how this is possible since the .dmg file is 18MB and Finder is saying there is over 125GB free.
Why does my MacBook not have enough space?
There is a chance the hard disk drive has failed, and if you had a replacement drive of correct specs, plus an external enclosure for the one in your computer to be put in later, at a later time you could attempt to access the Mac’s drive to reclaim any libraries or otherwise lost content.