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How can I extract a disk stuck in the drive?
Software ejection does not work.
The Disk help application finds the disk, but its 'eject' button is greyed out, and it displays a notice
"waiting for drive"
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James
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palokiller
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another way, how to get the disk out is:
restart your computer, right before you hear chimes, hold down your mouse button. hold it, until it spits out the disk...
it works when you have unreadable disk in your drive and youre trying to boot up your computer. i have tried it myself, it works...
Thank you calvera and palokiller for your help. Interesting that leopard has software bugs affecting disk routines - little in life is ever perfect, is it. That's what makes things interesting. So. I now have two methods of overcoming the problem should it ever surface again - which strongly suggests it never will. Thanks again.
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Mickey
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I actually had to go in and extract it manually. But the real problem was that the bezel, the thing that lets it slide in and out, it was bent so, if you can follow the steps to get that out in the guide section, and try to see if the thing is bent, if so, just be fragile, and bend it back into place.
Does the optical drive show up in System Profiler?
rab777hp,
To rabb777hp, Thanks. Yes the drive showed up, and the disk too, in 'disk utitlity', but the disk was never read. Thanks for anyone else who tried to give advice. The problem was solved using Terminal, and entering the command drutil tray eject. The mystery remains why this one disk would not eject using the eject button, or more 'user-friendly' software eject routines.
David Bambury,
Are you using leopard or snow leopard? If I remember correctly, leopard has some software bugs with ejecting and unmounting volumes and disks.
Robert Ciaccio,
Thank you all who have been so helpful. I now have so many solutions to that problem that it's difficult to decide which to use....that is if it ever happens again - which it has not!
David Bambury,
I have the same problem as you do. However, I have two CDs stuck inside and every time I turn on laptop it makes strange noise. Near me there is no Apple store and no one else doesn't know how to take CDs out.
Sonja,
Hello, everyone I have same prolem, but: The cd is in the mac, but mac do not read it. All the methods that you said in this theme is not working (buttons, terminal etc) Everytime i turn on the mac, booting is slower then usual, and his rom is making sounds like he is trying to eject th disk, but cant. After minute of those sounds he stops and everything is allright except the disk is not out. Please help
DJChill,
I raised the problem originally, I believe, and I have since found another solution which may help other sufferers, depending on their computers - mine was in a Macbook, not a desktop mac. If yours is a Macbook, try picking it up, and while holding the 'eject' key down, turn the computer on its side, with the disk slot down. If you are lucky - as I was - gravity will do the trick, and the stuck disk will drop out. Hope this helps someone, either now or in the future. Happy new Year David Bambury
David Bambury,
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