Hardware :: Small CD Stuck In The Drive - How To Eject Without Opening
Jan 15, 2004
long time user of "tray-based" CDROM drive PCs, I never thought of checking what could happen with an iBook and a small form factor CD (mini-CD, as they also call them) ... that is untl today, when I pushhed one of those into my new iBook drive. Now the CD is neither inside fully (to be - I was hoping - pusdhe back by the "eject" key), nor having anything to grab it from, sticking outside the drive. Anybody having run into this problem before? My laptop is brand new, and I would hate to start disassembling stuff, thus loosing the warranty, if I could avoid it.
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Dec 27, 2009
As a new IMac user (24 hours) I decided to copy my entire CD collection on to my computer. I now have a CD that is stuck in my IMac. It doesn't read/display at all, nor will it eject when I select this option from ITunes. Is there a way to manually eject the disc or another way that I may not be familiar with given my lack of apple experience? I have over 500 CDs to copy and I have only done 10 or so when this occurred.
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May 11, 2012
Mac Mini CD will not eject from drive?
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Sep 9, 2014
i have a macbook pro and i was looking up old cd's and one of them stuck in my drive there is no icon shown and the cd is slowing down my computer and i can't open finder, itunes and many more applications. How do i eject the cd?
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MacBook Pro, 13 inch
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Aug 11, 2009
I have a black Macbook that my son inserted a cd disc thinking it was a movie. I believe it was a CD from his mother's HP laptop computer. The disc icon does not show up on the desktop and the disc will not eject. How do I get this disc to eject? I have tried restarting my Macbook and have held down the eject button, but to no avail.
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Jul 16, 2009
My Intel based imac (purchased in Sept 07) won't boot up because there's an unreadable movie dvd in the disc drive that won't eject... when I turn on the computer, all that happens is it plays the opening chime and displays a white screen... I'm wondering if someone can help or suggest what's going on: Basically I put a movie dvd in my imac that my regualar dvd player wouldn't play so I thought I'd try it in my imac. Once inserted, the disc drive tried to read it but it wouldn't mount, it just made an odd spinning/grinding sound. It wouldn't eject using the keyboard eject button so I shut down my computer so that I could call a friend to ask for advice.
My friend gave me several options to try - holding the left mouse button at start up, hold C down on keyboard, command option O F to open firmware, reboot pram but non of them work. Basically when I start my imac it immediately tries to read the unreadable dvd and doesn't get to the normal start up procedure, it just shows a white screen and chokes on the dvd. Is there a way to manually eject the cd or does the machine have to be opened up and the cd physically removed? Is it likely that my imac will start up normally once the unreadable dvd is removed? I hope my hard drive hasn't gone bad because I haven't backed it up in a long time... Is there a strong possibility that my hard drive is toast?
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Sep 14, 2009
This is pretty urgent. I've got a late 2008 15 inch MBP (the one with the express card reader) and I put in a DVD and it wouldn't read it. As it didn't read it, I can't eject it, and this is pretty bad.
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Apr 1, 2012
A disk is stuck in the optical drive and the Mac isn't picking it up and I can't eject it.
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MacBook Pro
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Apr 21, 2012
A small cd is stuck in my imac. How can I get it out?
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iMac (24-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Feb 28, 2009
I'm not a total newbie with mac and computers in general, but I cannot get the one and only super drive to eject... yes, I have hit the eject button, it shows the eject icon in the screen and nothing...how can I get the thing to eject?
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Jul 28, 2007
I started burning a data DVD in itunes and I decided that it was taking to long so I canceled it, well now I have a disk in my drive the the computer does not recognize is there, and it is stuck! The eject button does not work at all.
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Mar 30, 2009
I have a old 2.0 GHz MBP and there's a dvd in it that it wont recognize or eject.
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Jul 8, 2010
On my macbook the disc thing (where you insert your disc) might be broken. When I put a disc in there it becomes stuck. What should I do?
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May 6, 2010
I inserted the cd in my MacBook. But I'm not able to take it out. I have also windows installed in the system. I'm in mac os now. But I'm not able to take the cd.
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Feb 5, 2012
How can I make my imac to expulse a DVD?, the computer does not recognise it; it makes noise as if trying to read it but it does not come out; I have tried with "eject" when restarting the computer, restarting having the mouse pressed down.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 7, 2012
My Mac was acting up would not recognize my mouse. I inserted Mac Tool 6. Now computer frozen can't. Get it to boot. Can't get tech tool 6 out.
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 24, 2012
How do you eject a stuck CD from a 15 inch Mac Book Pro?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jan 8, 2010
I went to install Windows XP via bootcamp as I no longer have a windows XP machine, but still need windows XP for a few things work related. The install failed, the CD I used was kinda scratched and it missed a few of the files during installation so I skipped them (usually not an issue as they were driver files and such). Well the installed failed and cannot complete. Now I'm stuck in a vicious loop where it wants to try and complete the install every time it boots. I'm using a non-apple keyboard, when I try to hold down what would be the equivalent of command+option+O+F it does nothing and either starts the windows installation all over or tries to continue and finish the current install. No matter what, no luck getting the windows disk to eject.
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Apr 5, 2012
I did insert a dvd a few days ago and now it doesn't appear anywhere and I can not eject it. But when I turn on the computer the disc drive makes strange sounds. How can I eject it?
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MacBook
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Dec 19, 2010
I inserted a blank disk earlier today. Automatically a hazard icon appeared where the eject icon should be. Now the disk wont come out and there is no obvious way to remove it.
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Jan 4, 2010
My Superdrive was making a funny noise, so I quickly ejected my game disc so It wouldn't ruin it. A few minutes later, I had to burn a DVD, so I put in a blank DVD, and tried to burn my iDVD project to it. iDVD kept telling me to put a disc in. I hit eject, and nothing happened. I went to my desktop, and noticed that "Blank DVD" was not present. So, I have a disc stuck in my MBP, and my Mac doesn't think there is a disc in there, so eject doesn't work. What do I do? Should I just bring it in the Apple Store?
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Feb 16, 2012
Over active 3 year old put two discs into our 13" Mid 2009 MacBook. How to remove them. Hitting the eject key does nothing.
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Jun 7, 2012
Just downloaded Lion. Safari is sluggish or gets stuck on opening most sites. Many do not open. Never had this problem before installing Lion.
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Jun 14, 2012
My 13" macbook is stuck on the grey opening screen with the apple logo and progress circle.
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MacBook
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Sep 12, 2009
We're hunting for a small printer for a crowded office space. There's a not much desk space or shelf space.
Only need something to print. No scanning, faxing or other functions! Hoping we can get Canon that is compatible with the inkjet 40 and 41 cartridges as we already have a printer that uses those.
Requirements:
Text documents
Photo printing
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Nov 11, 2009
I've got a PowerPC G5 running 10.4. After four years of dedicated service, my Superdrive gave out, so I bought a Sony drive (SONY DVD RW DRU-842A in profiler) to replace it. Here's the trouble:
Any time the machine goes to sleep with a disc in the drive, it won't eject when I wake it up. I have to restart, then eject. Other than that, the drive works beautifully. If this question has been answered elsewhere, please redirect me there, sorry for the repost.
Speaking of sleep, when I put the machine to sleep through the menu it goes fully to sleep (no fan/other noise). But when it goes to sleep on its own, I can still hear the machine churning away. Any ideas? My roomate has a newer Mac Pro that doesn't do this.
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Aug 27, 2010
after repairing disk permissions using the Apple OS Disk Utility and/or verifying "Sharing & Permissions" in the "Get Info" window of a drive, all connected hard drives on the system will suddenly have a small lock icon on the lower left corner of the drive icon. "Custom" is what appears in the "Get Info" window in the "Sharing & Permissions" for both System and Admin users and they can't be changed. The drives won't open when clicked on saying something about "you don't have correct permissions or privileges to access this drive".
Rebooting, creating new users, repairing Disk permissions and/or repair disk in Disk Utility, Disk Warrior, booting from another drive and even booting from an Apple OS installer disk have no effect on the locked drives, I can't get to them......................
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Apr 9, 2010
We've been meaning to buy a new external hard drive to house all of our project work for a while now.
Ideally we would like something that we can plug into our router and access from our homes as well, or at the very least, one which is capable of multiple direct connections.
We've looked at Western Digital options as our typical choice, but I can't seem to see whether the latest mac compatible line-up have those options we want:
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Can you guys recommend any external storage you use?
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Aug 21, 2014
I am upgrading my mid 2012 MBP with an internal SSD. I have16 RAM. OS is Mavericks.Â
I edit videos using a mix of photos (imported layers via photoshop), short animations, short video clips. I do some very basic stop animation also. So each media file is not heavy (photos, pics, short videos), but I do a lot of layering and compositing in FCPX. I had a lot of delays and freezes with 5400 rpm HDD… so I decided to upgrade to SSD.Â
Some people have told me to edit it all on my internal SSD as the media files are not big..Â
Everywhere else on the web I read that all media / libraries should be on an external while I edit them. But most of these contributors are using huge video files, HD, which is not my case.Â
So – with small media files but lots of editing and effects / animation, should I spend the extra money on a good external 7200 rpm USB3 to edit from ? Or just use external drive for storage and not editing.Â
Not going for TB as I read there would not be a difference between USB3 and TB on a 7200 rpm external drive (difference is felt when using RAID, r SSD external)Â ...
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MacBook Pro
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Jan 13, 2011
after I get a bad burn (it's very rare, but it does happen), I get a stuck DVD. I can't open the DVD tray unless I either restart the computer or wait a &$?# long time before it gets done trying to read an unreadable DVD. Even the terminal won't allow me to open it. Is there a way to get the DVD tray opened "immediately"? Sucks to think that we don't have control over that.
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