External CD-RW drive

Original Message

Name: qweasdzxc
Date: March 28, 2006 at 13:38:24 Pacific
Subject: External CD-RW drive
OS: G3 OS:X
CPU/Ram: 512

Comment:

Have purchased an external CD-RW drive. In system profiler
under USB it is recognised. though no icon is displayed on
the desktop and therefore can not use th drive. How can i
resolve this issue

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Response Number 1

Name: pumpnethel
Date: March 28, 2006 at 18:39:06 Pacific
Subject: External CD-RW drive

Reply: (edit)

You need to format it

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Response Number 2

Name: jel
Date: April 10, 2006 at 16:55:49 Pacific
Subject: External CD-RW drive

Reply: (edit)

see if it show up in finder
if it doesn't dp the following
boot up the computer holding down the apple key+ option Key+O+F
then type reset-nvram press return
then type reset-all press reutrn
if that doesnot work then install the software that came with the burner if that still does not work run Disk 1st ad for the os disk email me if you have any quistions b101875@aol.com or just let me know if this works
jel

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