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Installing Apple SuperDrive On Windows

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Well, I opened "Pandora's Box" (actually, just took the Superdrive out 
of it's cellophane in reality :p) as I couldn't contain myself any 
longer!!! - I just had to grab the bull by the horns and give it a shot. 
SUCCESS!!

It was actually a lot easier than I anticipated. After looking over the 
WWW (and Brother Hybrys' links - thanks for those) it seemed that it 
would work, one way or another, but I took a slightly different approach 
which I'll explain - pretty similar with regards to the end goal of 
getting the darn thing to power on and work. Initially, upon plugging 
into a USB port, Windows installs some drivers and the drive indeed 
appears in device manager as "Apple Superdrive" but will not accept a 
disc due to no power being supplied to the Superdrive.

After much reading, it appeared that I needed the 
AppleODDinstaller64.exe to actually get things to work. That file is 
found in the BootCamp stuff. Brother Hybrys' previous links showed how 
to do that, but seemed a lot of 'faffing about' to grab a small file - 
extracting .ISO's, mounting stuff, downloading different file download 
managers etc etc....(I hate faffing, so decided to see if the easy 
approach worked).

With a bit of deliberation, I decided to try that 'slightly different' 
method. Here's what I did....(it's working, so it might not have been 
the 100% correct way....but, it seems all good so far.....):

1. I went over to Apple support web site here: Apple - Support - 
Downloads and downloaded "Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5.033" - seemed 
to be the latest, so that's why I opted for that one - it's quite large 
at around 550Mb.

2. Once downloaded, I used 7Zip to extract the contents.

3. Plugged in the Superdrive - do not insert a disc at this point as 
there is no power to the drive. Windows installs some drivers and the 
drive shows up in "Computer" and "Device Manager" - great.

4. Navigated to the AppleODDInstaller64.exe file which is located in the 
following path: 
C:\Users\Username\Downloads\BootCamp5.0.5033\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple (or 
wherever you extracted it to)

5. In the above location, you will see the file needed - 
AppleODDInstaller64.exe - just run it and accept the agreement that pops up:

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6. That's it - you can reboot if you want, but the drive now has power 
and accepts/ejects and reads/writes just fine.

I had no problems in downloading the Boot Camp stuff above direct from 
the Apple site, no problems in opening the extracted file and no 
problems running the required file. No need to extract .ISO's with 
various download managers or whatever, no mounting required...just 
simple as.

I haven't tested transfer speeds etc just yet, but will do. In the 
spoiler below, you can see the drive and all the info - not sure if it's 
supposed to show as a 'Superdrive' but DVD will do me just fine:

     And here is a quick video I made to demonstrate things in 
action!!!! - excuse my lack of an Alienware beast to demo it on - still 
got an Alienware mousepad though, as you can see!! :p...oh, and the 
video itself as it was taken on my Xperia S, which ain't the best camera 
in the world.....All in all, I'm pretty chuffed ...... It's amazing how 
something so minor can put a huge grin on your face!!!!



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steviejones133, Sep 8, 2013
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