I put in the CD that you install the OS from and boot from that. If that boot fails (I don't reinstall the OS!) then I try another CD drive.
Bob
Okay, so I'm on a eMac, with an earlier version of OSX, and any disk that I try inserting into the drive won't appear anywhere on my computer, desktop, finder, disk utility, none of them. I've tried various things mentioned in other forums and troubleshoot pages but nothing has seemed to have worked.
I've tried "flashing the PRAM" as mentioned in the thread by oblio211, who had a problem similar to my own.
I've tried restarting the computer, as well as shutting it down, leaving it for a bit restarting again, both did nothing.
I've tried using both burned and commercially made disks, and nothing seems to work.
I'm hoping that someone has an idea as to how I might fix this problem, but if needs be I'll just take the damn thing in ![]()
-M

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