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SOLVED - DVD Drive could not be found Error -70012

Replaced the optical drive with a second hard drive using your FULL kit. Using your usb plug for the optical drive as an external drive seems to be a problem. The computer works with the optical drive as an external drive but the application DVD player is unable to initialize it therefore it will not play anything in the drive. Mechanically the drive works. Nothing gets stuck etc. Rebooting and using a different usb port makes no difference.

Error is-

A valid DVD drive could not be found. Error -70012

So, how do you get the DVD application to recognize the media that's in the drive?

Thanks

Peter

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The MAC DVD player option needed to be change from looking at an Internal optical drive to a External optical drive. The problem and fix is outlined in article at cnet. The link is below and the fix worked for me.

CNET- Addressing DVD Player error -70012 when using external drives in OS X

www.cnet.com/news/addressing-dvd-player-error-70012-when-using-external-drives-in-os-x/

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Try this blog to fix the problem dvd-player-error-70012 is only take a minute to fix it thanks to self-declared notebook geek proposed downloading this script:

DVDDriveSwitcher.

http://www.fieldsnet.com/2012/05/a-valid...

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Tried this method using 0xED search for internal brought up precisely nothing

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That fieldsnet link above is out of date - try this one: http://www.fieldsnet.com/a-valid-dvd-dri...

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Just Use VLC, free download, great media playing application.

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vlc wont show video, only audio: hackintosh mountain lion 10.8.5... i always use it on windows 7 but cant on mac, any fix?

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