Mac Won T Recognize Blank Cd

DVD preferences and it says it will ask what to do if I insert a blank CD. ...

However, when I put a cd in the drive, be it blank, music, or software, I hear a little spinning, then silence, and nothing comes up on my screen, no icon on the desktop, nothing. ...

r disc inside the drive and then restarted and I got a message saying that "osx couldn't recognize the disc inserted." I can however insert an already burned dvd or cdr and then everything is recognized and it plays fine. ...

You might have to launch Disk Utility from the menu at the top of the installation session and create the Mac OS Extended partition so that the installer can recognize the filesystem on the hard drive. Otherwise, it won't know what to install the OS on. ...