On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:51 PM, Ronald Steinke wrote: > Also, did you confirm that the DVD drive was Mac OS compatible > before buying it? If it is not compatible, it may not allow you to > boot to a DVD or CD to do OS installations. Patchburn is a utility that will solve the booting problem with many third-party drives. I've used it on several machines to recognize various brands of CDR and DVD drives. Available here: <http://www.patchburn.de/> Shareware, so toss the author a couple of bucks if it works for you. According to the webpage, :PatchBurn is a tool to patch existing CD/DVD-drivers (under Mac-OS X 10.2.x) or to generate and install new device profiles (under Mac-OS 10.3.x and later): Make sure you use the correct version for your OS. HTH, Rick