![]() Now, once a cd or dvd is inserted, top left menu bar shows "DVD player" BUT ONLY if the player content is on the screen. Right click on desktop icon showed eject icon, Finder showed the eject icon if a disk was in. ![]() ![]() My Apple dvd writer worked fine on previous iOS systems, where the desktop and finder both showed the icon for the writer. About this Mac/System/Hardware/USB shows the drive ) (System preferences shows Thunderbolt not connected. Good luck and I hope you find a solution to your current issue. I do not understand this at all but am glad that the external drive plays dvd's and cd's regardless. and lo and behold, the dvd instantly opened and began to play the dvd regardless of Monterey OS 12.1 not identifying that the external drive even existed. So, then, I decided to leave the cd/dvd drive connected by USB and just put a dvd into it and see what happened. So, once installed, I plugged the external cd/dvd drive into the usb and, indeed, with the new Monterey 12.1 OS installed, Finder could not detect the external drive and having done all the checks and balances, still no luck. I continued regardless (probably an unwise decision, on reflection). While installing Monterey, a pop up advised that the dvd/cd drive I'd always used would not work. I use an external apple cd/dvd drive connected to one of the USB ports on the MacBook and all was fine until I upgraded the OS to Monterey v12.1 today. I'm not sure if what I have to add will be helpful. ![]()
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