From the finder, hit command, shift, U to bring up utilities and select 'Disk Utility.' If this doesn't work, head over to disk utility. Here is where you'll see any drives that are connected and accessible.

With a disk inserted, hit command, shift, C to go to the root of the computer. 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.Īnother thing to check is to see if it's even showing up in the 'Computer' folder of the finder. 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 Reading the reviews on Amazon, some other customers have used it with Mac perfectly fine. 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. 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.

The description says that it is compatible with Mac, but when I plug it in, the cd drive does not appear on my desktop. And just bought a external cd drive from VICTECH on Amazon. Would greatly appreciate any input and again apologize for my tech ignorance here on what is obviously a very tech oriented forum. I have to believe that with all of the Win 8/8.1 laptops and desk top all-in-ones that don't have room for an internal optical drive, there has to be a way to successfully add an external and that manufacturers still support. So my questions are: 1) Can a win 8.1 OS be compatible with an external optical drive? 2) Is special software required, and if so, what is recommended? 3) Any recommendations on the external drive for a system that isn't constantly mobile, but is used in different locations on occasion? Reviews of external drives tend to be 2012 era and prior and I noted that the systems they are tested on run Win 7. On the other, I see information that suggests this is not a problem as long as the external is set up with the proper software.

On one hand I've read that Win 8/8.1 does not support an optical drive. I just ordered a new desktop not equipped with an optical drive of any kind and running windows 8.1 I assumed that picking up an external drive would be a simple matter, however, I seem to be reading conflicting information. Most mainstream sites seem to treat optical drives as something not worthy of their time and assume that they are almost an anachronism. Apologies in advance for my ignorance here, but I have not been able to have some basic questions answered through a lot of Google searching.

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