Hi all, Am using a MacBook Air 2013. And just bought a external cd drive from VICTECH on Amazon.

Jan 2, 2016 - Just want Everyone to know, I replaced my internal optical dvd drive with an SSD in my 2011 macbook pro. Put the internal optical drive into an. Resolved Make your external DVD drive work properly in El Capitan. Discussion in 'OS X El Capitan (10.11)' started by stevep, Jan 8, 2016.

The description says that it is compatible with Mac, but when I plug it in, the cd drive does not appear on my desktop. The disk slot only opens if the cd drive is connected to a laptop, and once connected to my laptop I am able to insert and remove DVDs etc: it's just nor appearing in my desktop or anything. Iv tried: Different USB ports, Different CDs Works fine on the home pc. The drive does recognise the laptop as it powers up and am able to insert and remove CDs etc, but my Mac is not registering it.

Reading the reviews on Amazon, some other customers have used it with Mac perfectly fine. Link to product: [New Version] VicTsing USB 2.0 Slim External DVD-ROM CD-RW Combo Drive Burner Writer for HP Dell IBM Sony Toshiba Acer Apple Asus - Laptop Netbook Notebook PC - Black Any suggestions as to what I can try? Thanks Khafsa:) Forum: • User Options • or to post comments. When in the finder, hit command comma to bring up the finder prefs and make sure that 'CD's and DVD's' is checked to show on the desktop. Best photo printing software for mac. Free flip book maker for mac. Another thing to check is to see if it's even showing up in the 'Computer' folder of the finder.

With a disk inserted, hit command, shift, C to go to the root of the computer. Here is where you'll see any drives that are connected and accessible. Check and see if the drive is there. If this doesn't work, head over to disk utility. From the finder, hit command, shift, U to bring up utilities and select 'Disk Utility.' In that list, you will see any drive and volume that is currently connected to the system, even if it might not be directly accessible from the finder. Hopefully, this will show the drive.

If this doesn't work, any diagnostics from here on out is far above my head. I hope someone can chime in and continue to point you in the right direction.

Hopefully, this at least gives you a few beginning steps to try before moving on to the really geeky stuff. Kevin • or to post comments #2 Thanks but no joy Submitted by Khafsa2015 on 25 August, 2015. Hi Khafsa, I found this thread after googling for a similar problem, in this case a BenGoo external DVD-RW drive. Tried all my USB ports, the drive was powering on and spinning but my MacBook wouldn't recognize it.