Sep 09, 2020 Best CD/DVD Drives for Mac iMore 2020. The best CD/DVD Drives for Mac can help your new Mac work with older technology. If you've recently upgraded to a new iMac or MacBook Pro, you're probably going to need an optical drive if you want to continue importing your movies and music, or just access the content on your discs. External DVD Drive, USB 3.0 Portable CD/DVD+/-RW Drive/DVD Player for Laptop CD ROM Burner Compatible with Laptop Desktop PC Windows Linux OS Apple Mac White 4.3 out of 5.
if the computer won't boot from a USB device, how could I use than, a USB DVD player? I mean, isn't that a USB device?
Your computer will see and mount a USB device once the computer is booted. You can use the USB DVD drive to play movies, restore from backup etc. However, you cannot insert the install disk in the external USB DVD player, hold down the C key and boot the computer from the install disk in the external USB DVD drive to run Repair Disk in Disk Utility, or to reset an admin password if you have lost or forgotten yours, or if you decide that you wish to reinstall your OS. To sum up, your computer will be able to use an external USB DVD drive, once it is booted from the internal drive, but you cannot boot the computer from the external USB DVD drive. If the external DVD drive has a firewire interface, you can boot from an install disk for the purposes noted above.
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If your Mac OS X computer is having problems reading CD or DVD media, see below to determine the cause of the problem. Check your media and hardware. Determine what kind of drive you have and the media it supports. For example, a DVD drive is required to read DVDs.