Daveypants
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I'm sorry if this has been asked before, from what I've read it seems to be an issue for lots of other Macmini users.
I have had problems with my optical drive reading and burning CDs for a while now. My brother used to own this machine so I don't know the exact details of what happened, but about a year and a half ago the whole hard drive crashed when importing a cd into itunes and he ended up paying quite a lot of money to have it fixed and lose all his data...
I was quite worried that the same was going to happen to me again today - I put an audio CD into the drive with the intention of importing it, but it didn't register on the desktop or in itunes. I went to eject it and it didn't come out. I thought this might be something to do with having several other apps open so I closed them all and restarted. When the grey screen with the apple logo cme up during start up, the drive was sounding pretty distressed and making some quite loud and unhealthy sounding noises. When it had finally started up, I opened up itunes and began the import only for the whole system to crash a few seconds into the first track import. I tried force quitting it after the noises had subsided, but to no avail. After a few minutes I just switched the computer off and turned it on again. The same noise happened during start up but everything seemed to work after that and I ejected the CD safely.
Now I'm worried about putting anything in the CD drive for fear of what might happen. I have frequently had an error message telling me the optical drive could not generate enough power to burn CDs in iTunes. I have heard of several other people with this problem and none of the suggested solutions worked for me. It just seemed to vary from disc to disc. One would fail whilst the other would work (albeit with lots of worrying noises again) even though they were CD-Rs from the same (reasonably reputable) manufacturer, even on the same spool.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to stop my CD Drive from going crazy on random CDs? I'm too scared to use it now.
I have had problems with my optical drive reading and burning CDs for a while now. My brother used to own this machine so I don't know the exact details of what happened, but about a year and a half ago the whole hard drive crashed when importing a cd into itunes and he ended up paying quite a lot of money to have it fixed and lose all his data...
I was quite worried that the same was going to happen to me again today - I put an audio CD into the drive with the intention of importing it, but it didn't register on the desktop or in itunes. I went to eject it and it didn't come out. I thought this might be something to do with having several other apps open so I closed them all and restarted. When the grey screen with the apple logo cme up during start up, the drive was sounding pretty distressed and making some quite loud and unhealthy sounding noises. When it had finally started up, I opened up itunes and began the import only for the whole system to crash a few seconds into the first track import. I tried force quitting it after the noises had subsided, but to no avail. After a few minutes I just switched the computer off and turned it on again. The same noise happened during start up but everything seemed to work after that and I ejected the CD safely.
Now I'm worried about putting anything in the CD drive for fear of what might happen. I have frequently had an error message telling me the optical drive could not generate enough power to burn CDs in iTunes. I have heard of several other people with this problem and none of the suggested solutions worked for me. It just seemed to vary from disc to disc. One would fail whilst the other would work (albeit with lots of worrying noises again) even though they were CD-Rs from the same (reasonably reputable) manufacturer, even on the same spool.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to stop my CD Drive from going crazy on random CDs? I'm too scared to use it now.
