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Drivers; Motherboard Drivers; Apple SuperDrive; Apple SuperDrive for Mac. Apple SuperDrive for Mac. Free Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Intel/10.6 Version 3.0 Full Specs. Download Now Secure Download. I have my mac pro 2010/5.1 running win 10 WITHOUT any bootcamp drivers. And the apple superdrive is plug and play there. Works perfect without any additional driver installation. So simply try it. Greetings from germany.

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Compared to many How-To articles, this one is pretty simple, but it saved me from buying another USB DVD drive just for one little task.

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The problem: I have both Macs and Windows PCs, and needed to install Microsoft Office from DVD media on an ultrabook laptop that had no internal optical drive.

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Apple Mobile Device Driver

Step 1: Download BootCamp from the Apple Support Site

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The MacBook Air SuperDrive has unique firmware which prevents it from being properly recognized as a plug and play optical USB drive by Windows. Fortunately, Apple provides the drivers for running Windows on a Mac, as part of its BootCamp software.

Install Apple Mobile Device Driver Windows 10

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If you download the latest release of BootCamp from Apple's support site, you will have a zip file wherein the path bootcampdriversApple contains the file 'AppleODDInstaller64.exe'.

Simply execute this file to install the Apple Optical Disk Driver for 64 bit Windows, and presto! You can then use the MacBook Air SuperDrive with your Windows PC.

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15 Comments

How To Download Apple Mobile Device Driver

  • Tabasco
    FelloWizard Aug 14, 2015 at 03:03pm

    Finally, something I can use. Thanks this is helpful on many levels.

  • Cayenne
    JeremyGove Aug 14, 2015 at 05:50pm

    Long live BootCamp! Great post! Thanks for putting this up.

  • Cayenne
    InevitableCheese Aug 14, 2015 at 05:53pm

    Makes you wonder why in the world they wouldn't just make it available.

  • Mace
    Curtis3363 Aug 14, 2015 at 06:16pm

    Awesome, I just got this drive for a friend and it won't work on his older Mac, so I'll give him mine and use his.

  • Serrano
    NHCSAdmin Aug 14, 2015 at 06:20pm

    Awesome! Been to busy to figure out how to use it on another computer! Thanks for the write up!

  • Thai Pepper
    Blair Groves Aug 14, 2015 at 06:23pm

    Thank you for your comments everyone! I'm glad this was helpful to you!

  • Chipotle
    ColdDeck Aug 14, 2015 at 08:19pm

    That's a useful bit of info right there. Thanks for posting!

  • Datil
    lhatsynot Aug 14, 2015 at 09:10pm

    Very nice and I didn't know it wouldn't work. My wife has a Mac with one of these drives and I have an Ultrabook so this will come in handy.

  • Chipotle
    James1765 Aug 14, 2015 at 10:55pm

    I should be shocked that Apple would break a long standing standard like this without any apparent advantage, but this is Apple we're talking about.

  • Thai Pepper
    Blair Groves Aug 14, 2015 at 11:23pm

    For every one item that Apple has put up a dead end, they've both innovated and perfected dozens of things that have influences our world in general. They've succeeded in creating a very nice ecosystem for people who are prepared to pay the price of admission, and there is much more to come, as long as Apple remains attentive.

  • Cayenne
    Bryan9095 Aug 15, 2015 at 12:05am

    This is a much easier method. Connect the SuperDrive and a USB flash drive to a Mac. Copy the contents of the Office DVD to the flash drive. Then plug the flash drive into the ultrabook. Run the setup. The benefit of this method is not having to do anything special to get the SuperDrive to work with the ultrabook and the installation of Office will be faster.

  • Thai Pepper
    Steve_Belmont Aug 15, 2015 at 02:58am

    Good Thinking! great job, and you get to save a few

  • Mace
    bbigford Aug 15, 2015 at 04:45am

    Nice write up on repurposing. I'm guessing nobody would actually buy an Apple optical drive for Windows intentionally. At least it isn't a total loss if you're stuck with it and don't want to pay $30 for a new external.

  • Datil
    AshleyLewisMS Aug 16, 2015 at 02:30pm

    Thanks for the guide. I gotta say, I've used a generic Samsung external DVD drive on an iMAC before and it works a treat.

  • Datil
    Rusty Platter Aug 17, 2015 at 10:19am

    For the reverse situation, I've used a Dell USB DVD drive without issues on a Mac.