The DVD stuck for almost an hour, could not force anything to quit, tried everything in panic, and finally, in the 2nd try to reboot and held down the trackpad of my MacBook Pro, it worked! Thanks a million for the info, you save my life! Thanks a million guys!!! I thought I wrecked my boyfriends MBP. He would have killed me!! Did the right click on macbook pro and turned on side and shook. The CD came out, thank you for the info. Tried everything but nothing worked…….. Gently inserted it into the drive.
Wobbled it about a little for it to stick then gently pulled it out!! Thanks all….. Thanks soooooo much for the cellotape idea. I had this situation 1 hour ago. After From there on, repeat 5 a few times until you can grab it by the fingers.
Overall, the problem is a design one: the rubber shield is WAY to hard to allow some CDs to be pushed through by the drive engine!
No wonder that engine cannot eject a CD!! I think if it all fails just let it be and eventually it will come out. Mine just started up and ejected the CD after 3 weeks of being jammed… I almost cried…. I popped an old music cd in my Macbook Pro and it locked up in my drive.
It would not come out for anything and also prevented my mbp from booting up after I restarted. The drive would just spin and spin. Nothing worked in terms of holding down different keys. After seeing your write I stuck a gift card in the drive on top of the disk and held down the track pad for like 30 seconds and whaa laah…the dam disk ejected! Thank you so much for this. The first suggestion worked like a dream.
I shall be bookmarking this page in case it happens again. I inserted a mini disk by accident in the disk drive and it is stuck. All the options above did not work because the disk probably went on a side and it is stuck. Any ideas? Thank you for any help. Do not try to put credit cards and knives and anything else into the drive!!!
The business card was a great idea. Took a few tries with terminal, but finally worked. No more DVDs for this Mac. The last option while using the terminal worked for me after hours of trying and trying and trying everything I could find on the internet.
BTW u need to stick the credit card all the way in for it to work.. The terminal solution worked like a charm and I had the benefit of making me feel like a real Geek. You saved me forcing a teaser in there to force it out or using thin plastic with sticky tape on it — because your first suggestion worked. Thanks so much, my disc has been stuck a few days now. I tried the thin cardboard a bookmark actually and it worked, when nothing else did.
I stopped the disc from spinning, did a force shut down. Thanks again and Bless the Lord Jesus Christ. I really got panicked as i loaded a disk with a plastic cd cover…I did the card and use eyebrows pliers to help out it seems to have worked.
Thank you……. I understand that if the CD is stuck you have to get it out somehow, but yikes! Next time, if possible, try this:. If 4 fails try the eject key. Or, if that fails, eject from disk utility under the utilities menu.
I know this is a post from a while, but are you still bumhurt? The credit card worked for me today like a charm. Cheers mate! I have successfully gotten a jammed CD out of an MBP before by using a credit card and a plastic knife. Does not work. Tried the above and a few others on forums for Ctrl S, E and holidng keyboar.
NO effect ; no sound to eject. DVD is not recognized and does not eject. Name required. Mail will not be published required. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. Enjoy this tip? Subscribe to our newsletter! Thank you! You have successfully joined our subscriber list. Paolo Betti says:. March 20, at am. Bryan says:. May 30, at am. Eileen says:. April 17, at pm. Ignacio says:.
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Slot loading optical drives have a unique problem that can occur, a failed ejection may leave your Mac thinking that there is no optical disc within the drive, causing the most commonly used eject commands not to be available. In most cases when you choose to eject a disc in a slot loading optical drive, your Mac first checks to see if the drive actually has a disc inserted. If it thinks there is no disc present, it will not perform the eject command. If this happens to you, you can use this nifty trick involving the Boot Manager to easily force optical media to be ejected.
Our last tip for ejecting stuck media in an optical drive is also very useful as a standard way to insert and eject discs. This includes multiple internal or external drives. And because the command is always available from the menu bar, you can always access this command, no matter how many windows and apps are cluttering up your desktop…. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile.
Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. A number of people managed to pull the disc out by inserting two credit cards working one on either side of the jammed disc and using them like pincers to yank it out.
This guy even put up a YouTube video showing the technique in action. Didn't work for me. Still no luck, even after several hours and repeated sessions of fighting with this thing. I was about to pack it in, take the iMac apart and physically remove the drive.
But stubbornness and an unwillingness to admit defeat called for a little MacGyvering. The approach I settled on was to use a thin, metal putty knife with a patch of heavy duty adhesive two-sided tape. I worked the knife into the drive, pressed it against the disc until it adhered, then tried ejecting the disc, simultaneously releasing the pressure on the putty knife and pulling it out. It took multiple attempts and by the end I was not being particularly gentle, but I was finally rewarded by not just the click of the eject mechanism engaging, but the sound of the disc popping out, still firmly attached to the putty knife by a blob of gooey tape.
Was it a damaged disc, or is the drive shot? I have no idea and I don't plan to find out. Fool me once… That drive is now sealed shut, which is one less thing to worry about given the machine is going to the kids' playroom anyway. The DVD itself is gummy and scratched as might be expected give the removal efforts , but I did notice it was extremely flexible. It wasn't cracked, but it bent almost like cardboard, even a day later.
I suspect the months it spent stuck in the drive heated it up and baked the plastic, but maybe that was the problem in the first place. I'll never know unless one of the kids rips the duct tape off the drive slot and jams another in.
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