Johnny,

I went into the system profiler and found the cd drive that is installed is
a DVD-R/DVD-RAM/CD-RW drive. But the only startup disk is the hard drive.

Jake
On Dec 31, 2011 8:51 AM, "Johnny Red" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Best is to open System Info and check what CD/DVD drive is installed.
>
> CD/DVD drives do not show up on disk utility unless media is in it.
>
> On Dec 31, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Camden wrote:
>
> > His drive didn't show up in the disk utility. It is either bad, or a
> cable came unseated. I suppose there could be an issue with the
> motherboard, or disk controller, but let's not think about that.
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Charles Lenington <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > On 12/31/11 1:14 AM, Dylan McDermond wrote:
> > On Dec 31, 2011 1:50 AM, "Todd Brayer" <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >    I never used 10.1, but doesn't it have a Startup Disk thing in the
> >    control panels that you can use to have it default to starting from
> >    the system disk? I don't see if you tried that or not.
> >
> >
> >
> > Open the cd/dvd drive door w/ your finger. copy the computer info listed
> >
> > it will look like
> >
> > 700 mhz 40 gig hd 512 meg CDrom
> >                          dvd
> >                          Combo
> >
> > what I'm looking for is the last item above. If you have a cdrom drive a
> dvd won't work in it. The early eMacs shipped w/ cdroms.
> >
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