Cd is stuck in drive

a cd has jammed in my computer and is not responding to eject, any recommendations on how to remove?

In Finder goto Help... type in Eject CD/DVD...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=mac/10.4/en/mh1750.html

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DVD stuck in drive

How do I eject a dvd stuck in the drive? It does not appear on desktop.

methodios,
See Kappy's recommendation here: CD stuck in drive: Apple Support Communities.

Help! Took mac to store today as DVD stuck in drive- 3 hour round trip!!! Told it was fixed and it now won't even switch on :( I press the on button and all I get is a continuos loading symbol and then it shuts down . Worse state than it was before :( :(

Help! Took mac to store today as DVD stuck in drive- 3 hour round trip!!! Told it was fixed and it now won't even switch on :( I press the on button and all I get is a continuos loading symbol and then it shuts down . Worse state than it was before :( :( not happy at all and not well enough to travel to get it fixed (my mum went today) anyone got any ideas please???

Oh ok - Thankyou for that. I will be ringing them tomorrow and I will not be happy ! And I'm hoping they can suggest what I'm suppose to do about getting it back to them as I can't take it in myself. SO so angry!!! Does people getting it back in a worse state happen often? :| do read these discussion boards? I hope they do!!!

Error message on startup, disc stuck in drive!!!

Okay, long story short, my 17" imac flat panel was stolen, but by miracle, the police recovered it and I got it back. However, scumbag opened it up and messed it up pretty good. I got it back together and fired up, and luckily got my data backed up on an external hard drive. But, I went to update the OS and inserted the DVD, and it told me to restart, but when I did, I'm getting some error messages and nothing else. Can't open the drive, can't restart, or even go back to my old OS, nothing. Some of the words say: "panic, cpu 0, unable to find driver for this platform, powermac 4,5, kernel version, etc. etc.
Is there anyway to bypass this startup, and just power-up the drive to eject so I can remove the DVD?? Seems to power-up and work just fine on the older OS, but now it's stuck. And I don't have an Apple keyboard with the eject button on it. Any thoughts?
Thanks

Hello! Holding down the mouse button at startup will open the drive if it's not mechanically stuck. Tom

HELP! CD stuck in drive. Try to restart brings up blue loading screen. Can't get the disc out and we've tried everything!

Imac Intel totally stuck with this CD in the drive,
Seriously. Every forum tells us to restart - but we can't because SOMEHOW this burned music CD (that we've had forever) has caused it to freeze on a never-ending blue loading screen.
Help please. Nothing's working. Only every now and then will the drive make some sounds to eject and then fails.
What has happened??

Greetings Ruth,
It sounds like the disk has become stuck in the drive and when it attempts to eject it becomes stuck on the inside of the drive housing or the optical drive itself has failed in some fashion.
Follow all the steps under "The drive doesn't eject discs or discs eject slowly".
If the steps don't help then follow the last step which is to take the system in for service / evaluation.
Best of luck to you.

Disc Stuck in Drive

I have a Disc stuck in my macbook's combo drive and it doesn't eject.It also appears that it is not mounted at all. I tried pressing the mouse key at start up but that didn't work.

I have a Disc stuck in my macbook's combo drive and
it doesn't eject.It also appears that it is not
mounted at all. I tried pressing the mouse key at
start up but that didn't work.
Hi. Ejecting a stuck disk in my MacBook has been a bane for me often, and more recently last night. You are probably aware of the many ways to eject a disk, but I'll list them here as well. In desperation I managed to discover another method this morning...!
These methods are listed in order of first use, all the way up to deperate measures:
1. press the eject button on the keyboard
2. drag the disk to the trash
3. if it is a movie I am playing, then I can press eject on the DVD control. But you must have stopped the play of the DVD.
4. click on the disk icon on the desktop and then go to File, select eject disk
5. click on the disk icon and then press the Apple key and "E"
6. go to Disk Utility, click on the disk you want to eject, and eject it
7. reboot MacBook and before the grey screen appears make sure you are holding down the Trackpad Button. This method can be useful for disks not mounted; so can point 8.
8. Resetting the PRAM. Shutdown, and before startup, press the following buttons: P, R, Option, Apple key.
9. if you are technically minded you can open Terminal and type in the following: "hdiutil eject -force /dev/disk1" Replace the word "disk1" with the name of the offending disk
I do each of the above, hoping that one of them will work. However, on this occasion none of them worked. This last method is unorthodox, but hey, it worked!
10. Carefully and slowly tilt the MacBook till the disk drive is pointing down, so that gravity may assist a disk to leave. Then click one on the many eject methods.
It worked for me!
Hope one of the above works for you.
PS.
I should probably still get Apple to have a look at my MacBook though...
MacBook, 2 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Re: Mac Mini cd stuck in drive (Con't.)

Hello All,
I've got quite the same pb with my mini (Intel 1.66, superdrive).
CD desapears from desktop, in the System Profile, the superdrive is non-existent : "no burning device avalaible etc...".
It's the fourth time that happens to my mini, and the only thing to do is to open the cover and remove the blocked CD manually. All tricks (mouse left click during start up etc...) are totally unefficient.
Then when i take off the drive, clean it, replug it and close the mini, the drive is there again, untill it stucks again...
=> hardware problem? => motherboard or the superdrive?
Any advice, idea of the origin of the problem?
Thx!
mugen
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Welcome to Apple Discussions, Mugen!
This is a curious problem, and perhaps there's one piece of information missing that might be useful to know: when the CD disappears from the desktop, is it when you are trying to eject it?
If so, then to me, it sounds like what's happening is that the CD is fouling the inside of the mini's casing instead of sliding out into the slot in the case designed for it. In that situation, the system might sometimes recognize the problem and draw the disk back in, but often it doesn't, leaving a fault condition which it has no way to understand since there's no method by which it can recognize the jam.
In that situation, it's entirely possible for the drive itself to vanish from the system profile, and certainly the system would not recognize the CD such that you'd have a means to eject it by holding the mouse button or using the eject key (or F12 if not using a dedicated Apple keyboard), or even with the eject button in iTunes or Disk Utility etc. As far as the system is concerned at that point, there isn't a drive connected, let alone a disk in it to eject!
When you open the system and remove the drive, remove the disk, then reconnect, the system then sees the drive correctly again and all is well.
In other words, you may not actually have a hardware fault at all. Try operating the system without the top cover on (and thus nothing for the CD to foul against. If in the same circumstances that the problem had occurred previously the system behaves correctly and does not fail, then all you need to do is ensure the drive and the slot are correctly aligned when everything is reassembled. Even a tiny disparity in the alignment of the drive and the slot in the casing could be enough to cause this issue, and if the top has been removed before and the drive removed and reinstalled, that can often leave the two components slightly off-line with each other.

Cd stuck in drive, iMac doesn't even realise disc is there

I have a CD stuck in the drive of my 27" iMac (iMac10,1). Eject button does nothing, there's no disc icon on the desktop. I even tried opening the 'Disk Utility.app' and when I right-click on the CD/DVD drive and bring up the information window it says (amongst other things):
Media is present : No
I'm stumped, not sure what to do.
Thanks for any help.

check out Kappy's user tip:
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. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the left mouse button until the disc ejects.
2. Press the Eject button on your keyboard.
3. Click on the Eject button in the menubar.
4. Press COMMAND-E.
5. If none of the above work try this:
Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following: /usr/bin/drutil eject.
If this fails then try this:
Boot the computer into single-user mode. At the prompt enter the same command as used above.
To restart the computer enter "reboot" at the prompt without quotes.

Small CD Stuck in drive

I had some software on a small CD , which I've inserted in to my Macbook .
I know this was a mistake .
The CD is stuck , but the macbook does not show anything in the drive .
How can I remove the CD ?
Thanks

Try this:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2491933&tstart=3

Cd stuck in drive

A cd is stuck in the drive of my brand new IMAC 2.4 thingie. Impossible to retrieve it, despite all the "useful" tips in the Help section and the 'last resort' solution. Any suggestions?

I think these breakdowns are all a ploy to foster better international relations, after all here am I sitting in my study over in the country of cheese-eating surrender monkeys, I send out a distress call and people from the other side of the world come to the rescue with brilliant, but alas, flawed solutions to a simple problem, which is the THE F...ING DISC WON'T BLOODY-WELL EJECT. I mean, it's hardly rocket science, is it? All I want is my cd back. Please.
I looked at About this MAC, in fact it is on the desktop as I write, and it says (or claims) that it is Mac OS X version 10.4.10 with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo processor and IGB 667 MHZ DDR2 SDRAM. Do I really wish I knew what all that meant? Anyway, despite having hijacked my cd (perhaps the machine was made in Iran and shipped via Libya) it looks great and works quite well. Fortunately I did not throw away my old cherry-red iMac just in case, and any way I need it to print stuff out, as of course (wouldn't you just know it) my ancient 5-year old Lexmark X83 printer isn't recognized by the new machine. After downloads galore off the Lexmark website it still obstinately refuses to print out anything. I knew it wouldn't but again, hope burns eternal and all that stuff. Any ideas on that one? With or without a towel, turban or veil, I don't mind. Just as long as I don't have to insert a cd, ha, ha.
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Cd stuck in drive after superdrive update?

So I have a cd stuck in my optical drive. When I try to eject it comes out about a centimeter then goes back in. Any ideas on how to get this out without damaging the disc?

My old G4 did this once or twice with a movie DVD. Since It came out a little ways I just grabbed it with my fingers (gently) and pulled it out.
It worked well - i was very nervous while i did it, but since I was using my fingers it didn't damage the disk or the drive.
I then restarted and tried a CD (ejected fine), I then tried the DVD again and it ejected just fine.

Cd stuck in drive. How do I get it to release it

I have a cd stuck in my drive how do I get it to release it.

Try these tips: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/23/mac-101-get-that-stuck-disc-out-of-your-mac/
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CD stuck in drive of G4

I have an older G4 iMac that has a CD stuck in the drive. It keeps trying to boot from the disc, and crashes whenever I turn the computer on. I tried holding down C and also tried Shift to start in safe mode, but it keeps crashing and I cannot eject the disc from the drive (it is the older fron-loading tray type of drive). Is there a way to manually eject it?
iMac G4 600MhZ 60G Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi Mahekun,
If the trick from Ali Brown is not working than you always try to stick a paper clip in the little hole form the CD tray. Be sure that the computer is on, insert the paper clip an push a little.
An when this is not working to than unscrew the frond of the tray to get acces to the CD that is stuck.
Good luck ...
Dimaxum

Boot up problems resulting from CD stuck in drive

I own a intel Mac Mini solo which up until now has been fine. The other day I installed Boot Camp/XP successfully and all was ok until I tried to install Hitman 2 on the XP partition.
The drive would not read the CD properly and the drive just seemed to make a lot of noise. I was unable to eject the CD and XP began to slow down to snail pace so I restated the mini hoping I could get the CD out that way. Unfortunately I was wrong, the mini just went to a white screen, with the combo drive again making chunking noises and neither spitting the CD out.
I looked up apple support pages from another pc and tried all sorts of ways to get the cd out, such as holding eject, pressing mouse button, trying the command-option-o-f methods but to no avail. Each time I would have to switch the mini off to try again by holding the power button at the back as neither OS was booting up for me to shut down properly. Then on one occasion I held the power button in whilst it switched on and the unit beeped several times - but I don't know what this related to or if I have done something wrong?
Eventually, I left the machine (drive still chunking away) in the hope that it would boot up - which it did to XP more than 45 mins later, I was able to get into control panel and change start up disk to boot from OSX. So I then restarted, same scenario, OSX took 20 odd minutes to boot up (CD still in drive) however the stuck CD then ejected itself of it's own accord.
What I would like to know is:-
Is the combo drive likely to be damaged?
Will the file system of either OS be damaged?
Will the mini need formatting etc? (don't really want to have to as it's time consuming and so on)
What did the beeping sound on boot up etc relate to?
One I restarted the mini everything seemed to work out, I checked permissions and verified the disk, both which were ok then i did a hardware test from the install cd which didn't find any problems. Is there anything else I need to check in this situation?
Agian, any help would be appreciated as I'm relatively new to macs.

Obviously, like a light switch, is you do it too often the bulb can go although realistically there's nothing to worry about and you should be able to treat just like that light switch. Turn it on and off all you like.
While I would be highly surprised if you got any hardware issues by turning it on and off, you are at risk of damaging your hard drive's data by doing so It is normally not a good idea to turn off a computer during a stratup or shutdown phase.
Beyond that… don't concern yourself. If you're worried then you can always run Disk Utility and verify your drive and repair your disk permissions.

Disc stuck in drive, tried every thing

This isn't a mechanical problem, I can hear the computer trying to read the disc.
When I restart the computer and hold the mouse button it just tries to read the disc for hours...
Even if I restart the computer and don't hold the mouse button, it just sits there, it doesn't even load OS X or display the folder with a question mark.
I'm short of time now, I'll post more details later...
Any help is appreciated
Message was edited by: große geld

OK I have more time now...
I tried to install Vista on my 2.0 Ghz Core Duo 2 Macbook, when I inserted the disc nothing out of the norm' happened. Every thing sounded completely normal.
When I reset the computer, it just hangs, trying to read the disc. I have even let it sit for hours.
Now It's stuck in the drive and the computer won't boot-up. It's not a mechanical problem, because I can hear the disc spinning and the laser moving, as if it's scanning the whole disc. I've tried every thing to get it out of the drive. Even holding down the mouse button, to removing the HDD and installing another OS on it from another computer. It seems to be simply ignoring me when I press the eject button.
Am I gonna have to take it apart or some thing?
'Cause I really don't wanna do that...
Oh and sorry for double posting.
I can't seem to find the edit button again...

Ack, CD Stuck in drive!

I got a new printer for Christmas, an HP Deskjet F380 All in One, I set up the actual printer fine, but when I went to install the software, things got a little funny. First an error window popped up, then there were two installation windows. Anyway, it finished installing ok, but I noticed that I couldn't use the application HP Photosmart Studio. I re-installed everything, but it still wouldn't work, so I pressed eject, and lo and behold, the disk is stuck! Any magic tricks to get the disk out?

You can try to do these things to force the drive to eject:
Shut down your Mac. Start your Mac again while holding down the mouse button, then the CD should be ejected. (So hold down the mouse button, start your Mac and keep the mousebutton down until the CD is ejected)
Shut down your Mac. Start your mac again and hold down the option key (alt). There should appear a boot menu, you can release the option key. Now you can probably eject the disc using the eject button on the right top off your keyboard.
If these bot things doesn't work you can try to trigger the sensors in your optical drive. If those sensor's are touched the drive should eject the disc immediately. You can trigger the sensors by pushing something in the left or right side of the drive, i normally use something like a credit-card to do this.
Hopefully this is helpfull or solved your problem.
(please see the "helpfull" and "solved" button's above this message)

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