This drive only works for Macs which, in their original form, do not have an optical drive.Īt this point, I started to search the net, finding hints, disassembling Mac OS X USB drivers and finally patching code in a hex editor which was the first, but ugly, solution to make the superdrive work, and gave me the information to eventually find the second, much nicer solution presented below. I knew that many third-party USB optical drives work fine, so I just assumed that would be the same for the Apple drive. It just didn't occur to me that this thing could possibly not just work with any Mac, so I didn't even ask before buying.

And I didn't want to carry that around, so I left it at home and bought a shiny new MacBook Air SuperDrive (by 2012, Apple USB SuperDrive) for the office. To be able to continue using the SuperDrive (Apple's name for the CD/DVD read/write drive), the Optibay came with an external USB case which worked fine, but was ugly. The story is this - a while ago I replaced the built-in optical disk drive in my MacBook Pro 17' by an OptiBay (in the meantime, there are also alternatives) which allows to connect a second harddrive, or in my case, a SSD. Note: for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan and later, please see this updated post instead.

Superdrive on windows 10