Cd not reading and cannot eject

I put a cd in my imac. It did not read and does not show up on my desktop.
I have tried placing the computer in sleep mode and pressing the eject key, holding the mouse button down as I restart, restarting and holding command-opt-o-f (nothing happens, the computer starts as normal every time and I never get the firmware prompt) and opening the terminal application and pasting in /usr/bin/drutil eject.
I cannot get this CD to eject no matter what I try. Are there any other options I should explore? Or am I doing something wrong? I really need to get this CD out so I can continue my work.
Edited to Add: I also tried holding the option ket down during start up. I got the hard drive to show up, but no disk ejection.
Message was edited by: Samala

Solved it myself! Disk Utility and then the eject button in the disk utility popped it right out!
Message was edited by: Samala

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