how do you open the dvd drive?
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Small rectangular button on left side. Right below them three little circles.
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Hi, It is indeed tricky and very ill conceived of the designers! Facing the tower, on the front, to the left, there is a little tallish door that opens up to reveal USB ports. At the bottom, under the USB ports, there is an almost invisible rectangular button....push it, this is the DVD opener. :) It might be easier if I kept my tower on the desk, but it is on the floor and I have to search for that darn button every time I need it! Good luck. :)
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Hit the stop button, hit the setup button, scroll to finalize dvd and then scroll to "yes" and enter. That should do it.
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No. There is no DVD drive at all. You can buy an external drive (with Blue Ray) for about $50 or less to connect to this Mac.
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At the top right hand side of the unit is a vertical button push it in and the cd drive should open.
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plug in the external cd/dvd player and reboot. hit F12 during the reboot and you should go to a menu that allows you to choose the external drive as your boot device, then hit enter to confirm when asked.cheersLarry
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I had the same issue when I first got the keyboard. There is not an eject button on the device, so the easiest way to get around it is to put an item on the menu bar to eject CDs and DVDs. To do this, open a Finder window and navigate to /System/Library/Core Services/ Menu Extras.Double-click the Eject.menu item in the Menu Extras folder. This will add an eject icon your menu bar. It will look like a pyramid with a straight line underneath. Click on it and it will allow you to open your drive.
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Yes the CD access is on the top right side of the screen. The DVD DRW drive is D:
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I'm pretty sure that one has the dvd drive. I replaced the hdd with an ssd really easily.
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There is no optical drive in this laptop. You can get a cheap USB DVD/CD combo drive for somewhere around $30. Make sure that you take that into consideration when comparing prices, if having an optical drive is important to you. You can try this option from Samsung, but there are definitely other options out there: Samsung USB 2.0 Ultra Portable External DVD Writer Model SE-218CB/RSBS
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I don't have the same dvd drive that you have, but I do have two different drives removed from broken laptops ( 1 - HP, the other not sure who was the manufacturer. By plugging into USB port on my Acer laptop, I can boot to a bootable CD/DVD.
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If you grip the swivel disc firmly and pull up from one side it will open easily...no worry about the disc breaking off.
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Just plug in the power adaptor, put in a disc and turn on. Other features require reading the manual and plugging things in and setting menus.
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There is no CD and DVD in the laptop so the laptop does not have an opening in which a CD/DVD can be inserted. But what could be done is that the items on the CD/DVD can be put on a USB flash drive so that they could be used on the laptop.
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On the front of the unit, there's a little silver button, flush with the front edge, that has the standard symbol for eject (triangle with a line beneath it). Press this and wait a second and the drawer will pop open a bit. The drive must first be plugged into a computer with the USB cable because that's where it gets power.
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Hold the Stop key on the remote to Open the DVD tray press Setup select Preference Press 1,3,8,9,3,1 Press up/down key to select "0 http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks/philips-dvp-5982/8185
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Also having problems: from the USB (as the dvd drive no longer recognizes discs, "Insert Disc" always pops up) tried .avi, .mp4, .wmv, .mov and none are recognized. will try other conversions.
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I had the same issue when I first got the keyboard. There is not an eject button on the device, so the easiest way to get around it is to put an item on the menu bar to eject CDs and DVDs. To do this, open a Finder window and navigate to /System/Library/Core Services/ Menu Extras. Double-click the Eject.menu item in the Menu Extras folder. This will add an eject icon your menu bar. It will look like a pyramid with a straight line underneath. Click on it and it will allow you to open your drive.