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.
