MBP Vista Superdrive Problems

forevergone · #1 January 27th, 2007, 02:09 AM

Hey guys, recently I installed Vista via bootcamp and it worked fine. However, I don't know what exactly happened but my Vista has problems detecting the superdrive. The drivers are messed up and it's rendered my drive uesless. Does anyone have drivers for the Superdrive for Vista? It was working fine upon installation but afterwards it just.. stopped working. Popping the Vista CD had little effect on trying to repair the disk drivers.

Any solutions guys?

MrTAToad · #2 January 27th, 2007, 07:26 AM

There was a post in the Boot Camp section of Apple support forums that listed where you may be able to get drivers and whatnot for Vista.

DeltaMac · #3 January 27th, 2007, 07:51 AM

Does the device manager report problems with your optical drive? I haven't used Vista yet, does it have a device manager similar to previous windows? If so, what happens if you use the usual method for reinstalling the built-in device drivers? (remove the driver from the device manager, and restart Windows, letting Windows find the driver automatically.) I apologize for asking about such basic stuff, especially to a Windows user... I'm sure you would have already tried that.

forevergone · #4 January 27th, 2007, 11:02 AM

Yeah, it does. It detects errors with the drivers for the superdrive.

@Delta - I was thinking fo doing that but I was afraid that it wouldn't reinstall itself. I'll go try that. Haha, I was reluctant myself. Thanks Delta!

Lt Major Burns · #5 January 27th, 2007, 11:06 AM

(God love OS X)

DeltaMac · #6 January 27th, 2007, 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by forevergone

Yeah, it does. It detects errors with the drivers for the superdrive.

@Delta - I was thinking fo doing that but I was afraid that it wouldn't reinstall itself. I'll go try that. Haha, I was reluctant myself. Thanks Delta!

If the drive is not working, and is showing errors, you're not losing anything by trying a simple driver detect/install. I hope Vista can handle that

forevergone · #7 January 29th, 2007, 12:07 PM

It didn't work :\.

Any other suggestions? I was thinking if I could get someone else's drivers that are working on their 17" MBP Superdrive (the U-846 ATA model) and just overwrite the ones that are corrupted that woudl work. I'm desparate :\.

DeltaMac · #8 January 29th, 2007, 05:47 PM

suggestion: remove your Boot Camp partition, create a new one, and reinstall windows.