What happens if a cd gets stuck in a mac

Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: help kristin help kristin. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too. Helpful answers Drop Down menu. Jan 17, PM in response to help kristin In response to help kristin I know you already had your problem answered, but this other trick worked when all the others failed. View answer in context. Jun 1, PM in response to help kristin In response to help kristin Five ways to eject a stuck CD or DVD from the optical drive Ejecting the stuck disc can usually be done in one of the following ways: 1.

Press the Eject button on your keyboard. Click on the Eject button in the menubar. Jun 1, PM in response to help kristin In response to help kristin Reboot the computer holding the option key down, wait for the boot drive options to appear, then press the eject key on the keyboard. When it's out, then select your boot drive and click the arrow key to boot up.

Jun 1, PM in response to help kristin In response to help kristin try using a vacum cleaner. Loading page content. Reply Helpful 13 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Reply Helpful 10 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Jun 1, PM in response to ds store In response to ds store If these do not work, the guys at the genius Bar see and fix this problem all day, every day.

Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Reply Helpful 5 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. User profile for user: Amy Fox Amy Fox. Your advice worked like a charm. User profile for user: Lisaca Lisaca Oct 21, AM in response to ds store In response to ds store Thanks des, worked for me!

User profile for user: Ahsanb Ahsanb. Dec 24, AM in response to help kristin In response to help kristin Thanks ds so cool. User profile for user: Rod T. Rod T. I wasn't aware of this method till now. Turned MacBook Pro upside down and shook it excessively while it did the whirring ejection and disc came out. Thank you for the tips! What finally worked was a birthday card inserted so that the one disc that was showing just a wee bit was between the two parts of the card, making a disc sandwich between two cardstock pieces of bread.

No damage to the discs! Tilting my Macbook to a 45 degree angle after hitting the eject button on my keyboard worked on the first try! Thanks for the tip :. After many attempts and after having given up and put everything away, I decided one more try! So, I held it, opening facing downward, pressed Eject from file menu and it popped right out. Thanks for your suggestion to TILT it! I had a mini cd stuck in my MacBook…my son tilted the laptop so the side with the dvd writer was facing downward and then he shook it.

Voila, the mini cd fell right out Thanks a bunch! Number 10 worked. I used a index card pushing it all the way to the back. Not only did one CD come out but two!!! Thanks, nothing worked until the last one — credit card was too small, but I used a folded commercial letter, pushed it gently right in as far as it would go, heard a click and when I pulled it out the disk came too. Now I just have to try again so see if a cd actually works!

The method of holding the trackpad button down while booting got my CD out. Any help? Well …after two hours of reading how to problem solve with NO results, I found this article and Duh!

It was stuck under my thin computer and the fan it sits on!!! I feel like such a duffus! It was the clearest one out there and you could say, even though my stuck CD was under the computer not in it, that indeed it solved my problem so Thank You! I used methods 8, 9 and 10 combined.

My computer kept on making loud sounds when the disc was inside. And now, it finally came out! Thanks again! Thanks I used no7, my stuck disk had not been recognised by the mac, it was one of those small disks, so on eject on upturned machine less than 1mm protruded from the drive, a metal tooth pic was needed to pull it from the drive as the space was too fat for tweezers.

Wont be putting this sized disk in the machine again! None of these options worked for me, the only thing that saved me was going into Disk Utility and unmounting the dvd first and then ejecting it through Disk Utility. Thank You Thank You!!!!! For anyone who tried everything to no end, I found what works EVERY TIME for me now is to hold the macbook at a 45 degree angle while spamming the terminal eject command as fast as possible by using the up arrow key and enter, then eventually the edge of the disc will pop out but be quick and grab it because it will go back in.

I have been trying for three hours to get this disk out. I could hear it trying to eject, but it would never come out. As soon as I turned it over and ejected, it popped right out! Thank you so much! Tried almost all of them without any luck until Then, it worked and the CD came out. Thanks so much. I independently came upon 9 on my own; using the force of gravity along with the defective ejection motor worked and the disk did pop out for removal.

That was so easy. Used the OS X and it worked, no sweat. Love YOU. The Force Eject tool software was easy to download and effectively removed the CD!!! Carefully slid card stock corner with tape in drive so that it was on top of the disc and pushed the eject key. Real smooth… Powered up Mac Book Pro and held finger on mouse— disc came right out. Thank you!!!! Thanks so much for this thread, because of you and the collaborative effort of comments I got my installation CD back :.

The mouse button held down on boot up worked for me. I tried many of these options to no avail; however, I eventually flipped my Macbook upside down and simultaneously pressed the eject button and presto…out it popped!!!! Maybe it was a combination of the attempts? Just happy to finally have the disc ejected! Thanks — I tried several different things but eventually the disc drive ejected the DVD on its own. The computer had to be up and running for about five minutes before it took the action on its own.

I was just getting ready to try the tilt method…. It worked! Half a Hallmark card in the slot with the disk, turn it off, wait a minute, turn back on and the disk automatically ejects without a command to do so! Muchas gracias con todos! Thanks man! Inspired by 3 , I just inserted credit card into the slot and moved it for a while inside. Thanks for this. I just tipped it forward, as suggested, and it slid out. Might have saved a timewasting trip to the Mac Shop.

Saved me true hell Raymond. Mad Respect. Thanks for all the tips for future referance. I got mine out by pressing the F12 key while booting. Thank you I used costa caffee reward card : You have to stick it pretty deep though. It worked Thank you!!!!!

Saved my day. Thank you thank you thank you for saving my night! Thank you so much!! I tried to do the duo thing of both mac and windows, and while doing windows it got stuck and i could not stop it from constantly trying to setup windows…. Suggestion 4 worked just as described above. I turned on my Macbook and let the DVD spin for about 10 minutes. After that, the disc automatically ejected and the OS booted normally. Thanks for saving me a trip to the repair shop Raymond!

I inserted it into the slot and squeezed the upper and lower surfaces together by hand when it was most of the way in, grabbing the mini disc from above and below and pinching it between the two surfaces. After about three quick tries I pulled the CD right out. Inserting cardboard while holding down eject popped the DVD right out. Thanks again for your help! This worked.. Thank YOU!!!!!!! Thanks you so much. I was about to cry, its my dads laptop, if I had broken it man I would have been busted.

So thanks. I tried for over 2 hours to eject a disc and after reading this I restarted computer and held down touch pad. Thank you so much, prob saved me hundreds in unneeded repairs! Hey, I took it to the apple store and the guy got it out in literally 60 seconds. What the guy did is he took two business cards made of cardboard, not plastic and put one on the upper brim of the cd slot and one on the lower. He did it about twice gently and bam, cd was out.

Good thing I scrolled down to read enough comments to reach yours, because the other methods do NOT work for those of us with a metal casing that is bent down over the drive! Thanks for saving me a trip to Apple store! It seems like many found this useful. Thank you, holding the track pad worked for me! I tried everything and finally that worked!

I was so close to throwing it out the window and having an even bigger problem! The tilting one work a charm for me. I used an index card and followed your instructions. CD came out and it booted right up after that! Thanks so much!! I just saved my self a hundred dollars!! You are a God send!! I used one of my kids flash cards and tried what you said to do and it worked! Thanks for the help. Restarting the computer while holding down the eject button finally got mine to come out!

Wow, I was freaking out. Disc stuck but my MBP booted fine, no issue there. The master had a label printed with a printer very thick i suspect that as culprit. No genius bar visit for me!!! THAT worked, after many other unsuccessful attempts. Anything worked with mine to eject the dvd and I had to TURN the macbook pro OFF not just restarting it and then press the touchpad button and the button eject at the same time. Thank you for your recommendations.

They were really helpful. Vielen Dank. Thank you so much for your advice. I looked all over the help systems and discussions and nothing worked. By holding the track bar down and simultaneously putting an envelope in the hard drive to stop the disk from spinning it ejected ending a 6 hour ordeal. We had the exact problem that you described which was that it kept trying to boot from the CD. Now we get to fix a corrupt kernel, but at least we have a fighting chance.

So thank you. Very practical advice. Your post really saved me money ,while helping me resolve a month long problem.

Be blessed thanks again for your kindness in sharing your knowledge with me a perfect stranger. I was attempting to burn a disc on iTunes. So, after reading through a few forums I shut down my computer, waited a few seconds and turned it back on. As soon as I hit the power button I held down the track pad key but my macbook started making horrible noises so I let go and decided to press the eject key. Once my computer was fully booted up I took a thin piece of cardboard and stuck it gently in the slot and pressed eject… out pops the disc.

I hope this helps someone who had the same issue. I did it! It worked, I jammed cardboard paper, and it took a few times but it worked in the end, thanks for the help! The cardboard I used cover of a glossy paper back book worked very well! I also combined that trick with the 45degree angle thing.. I tried all of the eject buttons and forced eject key method, and this was the only thing that worked!

I was starting to get really worried, till i found this page and all your tips! I turned off the macbook, then held down the eject button and turned the power back on. I finally got the damn disk out! It was stopping the CD from going in or going out.

I know this really sounds like a true hardware issue, but once we physically moved the piece out of the way by gently sliding a card underneath it and moving it toward the screen the CD came right out…. I tried most of the suggestions except the cardboard… where do you stick the cardboard…. This page solved it! Keyboard perpendicular to the table.

Pressed the eject button. Thank you so much for the advice! Just held down the trackpad on the new aluminium mb relieved now, and people with the bootcamp problem hold down ctrl and choose macintosh. Thank you guys for the help, Clicking the trackpad on startup ejected my windows disk which hung up in there in an unsuccessful attempt at using bootcamp.

Thanks a million!!! I had this exact problem the other day. The way i did was shut down the macbook. This was an extensive explanation and it helped me get out the nasty DVD through the card method , thanks man. Just wanted to chime in that this worked for me! I have an Intel based Macbook.

Usually if I take a q-tip moistened with a little running alcohol and run it along the opening it will help. Also, I generally do have to tip my laptop on its side to let gravity do its job. Every time I would hit the eject button, the image would flash like it was going to eject then…. No noises, even. The disk was no longer even spinning, there was just no response at all. Anyway, I turned it off, let it sit for about a minute and turned it back on — pressing the trackpad button the entire time.

It tried to eject after about 45 seconds, but was sucked back in. Once OS X was starting to load, I tried just hitting the eject button with laptop on its side and the stupid thing finally spit out. Alternatively you can try ejecting through disk utility. Hold down the C-key upon restart and your Mac will try to run the CD that is in the optical drive.

Next put your Mac to sleep then wake it back up. Now restart your Mac and wait for everything to load up. Upon start-up this time your CD should eject itself. Shut down your Mac and unplug the MagSafe power adaptor from your Mac and from the wall socket. Wait a few seconds then take your battery out of the Mac then re-insert the battery.

Turn your MacBook back on, if your CD does not eject on its own on start-up try to eject using the eject button or by pressing F This method worked rather well for me in a couple of cases but I would try this last.

Restart your MacBook then hold it on its side with the optical drive facing down. If your desktop loads up and still no CD has presented itself then it was unsuccessful. A video is useful but a MacBook is very sensitive and handling it yourself in this manner is highly risky. Honestly there are only two ways to avoid this problem from happening again, get it fixed altogether by taking it to an Apple Store — which none of us want to do — or you can do what I did and buy an external optical drive.

The thing about this issue is that if it happens a lot then there is obviously something wrong and you can ship it off to be fixed and be Macless or you can use the alternative external optical drive.

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