The WinToUSB takes such longer because of how it extracts files into their directories (instead of just doing a file copy), but it has made getting Windows installed on crappy WinPCs a cake walk. MS offers an option for the former, but usually it comes back saying it couldn't make the drive bootable.

This means that the hardware is funtional.

If you do, that is your optical disk drive being seen correctly. The first one is great for taking, say, a Win ISO and making it into a football flash drive, and the latter will allow you to take a Win ISO and make it into a pre-installed OS-not just an installer-that you can then put into into another machine. On the BIOS main screen, you should see a reference to 'ODD'. Pretty clever.PS: Segue, for those that are looking that are looking for slick ways to get Win ISO and installations without having to burn bootable DVDs, Ive had a lot of success with the following apps: I was surprised to see this is possible over a LAN with a WinPC.

I almost didn't click on this article because 1) this hasn't been an issue for me in a very long time, and 2) I thought it was a well-worn topic built into macOS since around the MacBook Air launch.

My mac dvd drive is not showing up