Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Philip Quillen Newsgroups: alt.comp.lang.java Subject: Installing Apple SuperDrive On Windows Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:46:45 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 78 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: qESYb+u6qsDsXehCFBeHiw.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 160420-0, 04/20/2016), Outbound message X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://nntp.aioe.org:119 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.lang.java:2 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: [​IMG] 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!!!! Last edited by a moderator: May 12, 2015 steviejones133, Sep 8, 2013 #24 Mr. Fox and Rafix like this. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus