MacBook Pro :: Dvd Stuck In Superdrive - Unable To Work
Nov 15, 2010
I picked up a 13" '08 Macbook pro, everything's great apart from a dvd being stuck in the drive.
I've tried all the usual tricks that come up on google, holding eject/trackpad on start up, eject in commands/itunes and the thin piece of card under/over the disc but nothing has worked.
When holding eject it sounds like the disc hits something as it tries to eject but due to the felt I can't see inside to see what it is?
CD stuck in superdrive have tried all the Troubleshooting tips available. my super drive is greyed out in the disk utility so the only one i couldn't try was ejecting from there.
Info: MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
i've tried every method mentioned but I can't still eject a stucked cd on my MBP mid 2010. The CD seems to be stucked halfway in, so its not readed by the drive, but it can't also be ejected.
I shoved a mini-cd into my MacBook pro's SuperDrive and, when nothing happened, used another dick to push it in further. It doesn't show on the desk top and I'm at a loss as to how to retrieve it. ( yes, I know this was a numb move.)
I've got about 150 individual podcasts downloading and I've subscribed to about 20 , the problem is it's now stuck and won't let me "Pause all" or "resume all" on the download screen. I have a feeling if I shut it down the hard way I'll lose all those individual podcasts and podcast subscriptions that I entered, and it took me hours to figure out the ones I wanted. Is there a way to backup so it will resume all this on restart?
I had to drop my iMac G5 in this morning to the apple store to get a stuck DVD out of the superdrive!!. My question is, how often to discs get stuck in the drive??? Is this a common problem??? Is there a risk of the disc getting stuck every time you put one in???? Why wouldn't apple put a pinhole to manually eject the disc or some other way of manually getting the disc out!???
I have a 17" Power Book G4 which is three months old. It is my first Mac after 20 years with a PC and it is not a happy Mac. I am not a happy Mac owner It now has a CD jammed in the superdrive. It will neither eject or be recognised. All the threads say hold down the mouse button, this will force eject the disc. All this does is give me a blue screen. No effect on the disk. While I sit here it is trying to eject the disc on its own every 30 seconds or so. It is a home made disc with a paper label which works in my 2 PCs and windows laptop. How do I get it out, preferably without the use of a hammer.
Okay so last night I was trying to burn a file with Disk Utility, as soon as I put the DVD in I heard it was making a little noise (most likely because there was dirt on it - I wasn't thinking properly). When it started to burn, I could hear it make noise....I didn't want to risk not having a smooth burn so I cancelled it, then tried to eject it......to no prevail.
I've tried everything in the book.......from repeatedly pressing the eject button on the keyboard, to restarting while holding down the mouse button, to tilting it on its side and let gravity do its job, to lightly smacking the back part of it........nothing is working
When I do try and eject it, I've noticed it makes 2 different sounds....1st one is, imagine the sounds it makes when you put a CD in....and also taking it out, those 2 sounds very close to each other. 2nd one is sort of like the CD rubbing against something, like a bandsaw but on a low level. It wants to work but something is getting it caught.....
Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.
After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).
I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out.
I bought a Belkin powered USB hub and hooked my MacBook Air Superdrive to it and it won't work. I was under the impression it would in a powered USB HUB. Anyone share any experiences with me on this?
I just replaced my hard drive in my 2007 MacBook Pro. However, when I now put a disc in the superdrive, it only reads it occasionally. Most of the time, it just spits the disc out.
I've tried my tiger install disc, leopard install disc, and snow leopard install disc.
NOTE: I cloned my old hard drive to a back up and put it back on the new hard drive once installed. So, I'm up and running, but I want to reinstall leopard as a fresh install, but the superdrive doesn't want to work.
So, I was using my UB MacBook earlier today. I had a CD in the superdrive. I was shutting down the computer, and all of a sudden, as the screen was going black, the disk in my computer came out half way and the superdrive made a noise. I quickly restarted my computer to see what went wrong. I tried putting the CD back in, it didn't work. You all know how the slot loading superdrives suck in CDs. I now slide the CD in, and it won't get sucked in. In fact, the whole CD won't even go in. A little bit of it still sticks out. So now I'm stuck with a dead superdrive wondering what to do to fix it.
Im using a 17" unibody macbookpro 2.66 early 09 to make a copy of my Leopard Disc to put in an offsite storage location. Im able to rip movies and burn movies (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-DL), iMovie videos, iTunes cds, rip audio discs, etc. The media is Dual-Layer DVD-R in disk utility I burn it at the slowest possible speed (on both systems) at 2.4x
After it writes the data to the disc and finishes, i get this lovely image:
I tried doing a test install of it from the burned dvd and it installed fine.... = what the huh!?
its done this twice. using the same media on a 15" 2.2ghz uMBP late 2008 gives me a completed successfully notification every-time.
burn info:
17" Superdrive info: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N:
Model: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N Revision: SA17 Serial Number: KZZ91OM5217 Native Command Queuing: No Detachable Drive: No Power Off: Yes Async Notification: No
15" Superdrive info:
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868:
Model: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868 Revision: KA14 Serial Number: dE0E4283 Native Command Queuing: No Detachable Drive: No Power Off: Yes Async Notification: No
Log Files from the 17" uMBP
Here are the Disk Utility Logs
Quote:
2009-08-23 15:19:30 -0700: 2009-08-23 15:50:48 -0700: Eject of �disk2s3� succeeded 2009-08-23 15:50:51 -0700: Burning Image �Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg� 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Image name: �Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg� 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Burn disc in: �HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N� 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Erase disc before burning: No 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Leave disc appendable: No 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Verify burned data after burning: Yes 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Eject disc after burning 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: expected CRC32 $0F91EA17 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Preparing data for burn 2009-08-23 15:52:25 -0700: Opening session 2009-08-23 15:52:31 -0700: Opening track 2009-08-23 15:52:31 -0700: Writing track 2009-08-23 16:11:26 -0700: Finishing burn 2009-08-23 16:12:26 -0700: Closing session 2009-08-23 16:12:28 -0700: Finishing burn 2009-08-23 16:14:05 -0700: Burn failed 2009-08-23 16:14:05 -0700: The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry. 2009-08-23 16:14:16 -0700: Unable to burn �Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg�. (The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.) 2009-08-23 16:21:59 -0700: Attach Image �Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg� 2009-08-23 16:21:59 -0700: Initializing� 2009-08-23 16:22:00 -0700: Verifying� 2009-08-23 16:22:00 -0700: Verification completed� 2009-08-23 16:22:00 -0700: expected CRC32 $0F91EA17 2009-08-23 16:22:00 -0700: Attaching� 2009-08-23 16:22:00 -0700: Checking volumes� 2009-08-23 16:22:01 -0700: Operation canceled by user. 2009-08-23 16:22:02 -0700: Volume check completed� 2009-08-23 16:22:02 -0700: Mounting� 2009-08-23 16:22:02 -0700: Finishing� 2009-08-23 16:22:03 -0700: Finishing� 2009-08-23 16:22:03 -0700: Image �Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg� attached successfully. **********
Here is from ~/Library/Logs/DiscRecording.log
Quote:
Disk Utility: Burn started, Sun Aug 23 14:57:02 2009 Disk Utility: Burning to DVD+R DL (RICOHJPN D01) media with DAO strategy in HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N SA17 via ATAPI. Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 2x, actual burn speed is 2.4x. Disk Utility: Burn failed, Sun Aug 23 15:19:01 2009 Disk Utility: Burn sense: 4/09/02 Hardware Error, Focus servo failure Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x80020022 The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry. Disk Utility: Burn started, Sun Aug 23 15:51:02 2009 Disk Utility: Burning to DVD+R DL (RICOHJPN D01) media with DAO strategy in HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N SA17 via ATAPI. Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 2x, actual burn speed is 2.4x. Disk Utility: Burn failed, Sun Aug 23 16:13:34 2009 Disk Utility: Burn sense: 4/09/02 Hardware Error, Focus servo failure Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x80020022 The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.
I bought a 1.5GHz G4 Mini with Combo Drive. Ordered a Superdrive via eBay and fitted it (2 minute job - done it many times previously). Panasonic Model UJ-846-B march 2008. On this occasion, the drive fails to work. I can insert a disc and eject it (using the button on the front of the drive) but the drive isn't "seen" by the Mini. [URL] I received a second drive from the seller and it has the same problem. I assume that it doesn't have the correct "driver" firmware installed.
having read all the posts about the superdrive failures, mine seems to have died although it is a strange one. It's a Pioneer 107D and it reads, writes, and ejects if a disk is in it (sometimes)...however it will not open (without my trusty paperclip) from keyboard, fkey, drag disk to trash, startup with mouse button held, etc. etc. Terminal mode (drutil etc.) says drive is ok as does About my Mac. I can hear the mechanical attempts to open, but only the ol' paperclip seems to do the job. Any thoughts??? If I replace it are there any thoughts as to what people find reliable? I am thinking Litescribe at the moment (I do not "need" DL or BluRay).
Information: G5 dual 1.8 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.11) 1 gig ram
I have a pretty old (4-5 years old?) PowerBook G4, running 10.4.11. Recently the superdrive quit playing commercial DVDs. It will recognize CDs without a problem, but when I insert a DVD, the drive makes noises like it's reading the disc for maybe 20-30 sec. and then ejects the disc. I also tried to install Photoshop, but the drive wouldn't read the instal DVD either.
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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