Okay, I see, "The whole drop" part confused me. I get what you were saying now.

Yes, the vsdbutil -d command. Then reboot from the DVD to rebuild the whole drive from TM again from a backup before you recently restored, from one before you lost your pics. If you think Apr 22 is a pretty complete backup use it.

Have you got the DVD drive working? We need to get that worked out before we can rebuild anyway. Try what I suggested to see if it is the DVD drive, the disk , or some system corruption.

Still busy on this end, don't know if I can iChat tonight. Tomorrow may be shot, a possible 2 hour window in the mid afternoon, and Sunday later afternoon/early evening should be good.

Super Driver is fubar!!

I finally nudge a cd in and it is stuck, can't get it out, keeps making ejection noises but can't eject, already tried a credit card in the slot...no go

Is there a way in terminal to shut down the super drive?

Suggestions anyone on external "super drive"
I gotta believe it is gonna be way cheaper than getting a new one in my imac.

Will I be able to use idvd, and everything else with it?

Does it look like they put the case on right? Maybe the slot is just misaligned.

No way to turn it off other than unplugging it.

I assume we tried the startup holding the mouse button down? Probably wont work with an external drive, but worth a shot

Ok here is the latest......

I finally "found" the old pics I lost in TM.

Had to click on TM drive icon and drill down to an older date, one that I couldn't access by going through iPhoto into TM. So I get down to the date of backup, user, my iMac, pictures folder. The folder has a "-" sign on it. I do a get info and unlock it and add myself with read/write privileges. For some reason I was not on the list. Now I open iPhoto and go into TM through iPhoto to the date I just gave my self privileges for and viola I restore my photos. Hope this makes sense....

I still have a blank CD in the superdrive, not sure what I'm going to do about that.

Have you tried the paperclip method?

http://brokensecrets.com/2010/02/11/rescue-a-disc-from-your-cd-drive-with-a-paperclip/

slot loading, I have tried a credit card, didn't work...


Oh wait, link to paperclip method with slot loading, I will give it a go, when I get home!!

THANKS!!!