Disk stuck again!!!!

Please tell me why I cant eject a disk from the maC ON MY DESK? The number of times I have seen this problem and there's no solid way to be sure of ejecting a disk! these designers cant puit a EJECT option into the side of the drive???
I need to eject a boot disk but can't use the Disk utility vecause that's using the DRIVE!
press eject = no
shaking = no
press left mouse on boot = no
Leaving it alone = no
using a business card (what a fuicking stupid idea) = NO!!!!
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Hold the option/alt and the trackpad button key down while booting the computer, when the row of bootable icons appears, press the eject key.
Select the OS X boot arrow and click.
It's rare to have a stuck disk in the machine and the reason software is used to eject is because it incorporates the necessary step of unmounting the medium in the operating system.
On Windows one is supposed to use the "safely eject" on the Taskbar before ejecting, but people don't do that and then have problems and cleanup/end operations are not performed leading to drive problems.
So Apple incorporated the function to "safely remove media" and it's only upon a problem that you get a issue with a stuck disk, 99% of the time it works perfectly.
For many years a hole used to be there to stick a wire in to manually engage the mechanism to eject a stuck disk, why it was removed is unclear.

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I have an iMac mid 2010. After Disk utilities said the drive was corrupt, I ran the hardware test (extended) 3 times. No problems. I than ran Disk utility again and got 2 messages in red…keys out of order, and ……Volume corrupt, can't be repaired.
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There's hardware and software.
Your drive could physically be in good condition but something has caused the file structure to be messed up (it just happens sometimes). The directory that keep track of files is corrupt. Disk Utility can help determine if that is the issue. In some cases it can repair the problem but it cannot do it to a drive that is being used to boot the system while you are doing that. You have to boot from another drive. Some things DU cannot repair and you need to try a stronger utility such as Diskwarrior.
A failing hard drive (one with mechanical issues) can be a cause of file structure issues but this is by no means always the case. Apart from looking at the SMART diagnosis feature of Disk Utility (and smart isn't totally reliable) there often isn't a way to tell if a drive is failing until it suddenly happens, which is why you need to maintain backups.
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Dear John,
thank you for your prompt reply. After I sent the email, I left the wheel spinning to see if it would eventually stop. It didn't, but after a while the screen turned blue, so I decided to switch everything off with a forced shut-down. I could not restart with the OS DVDs because I am currently away from home, but fortunately everything was more or less fine after restarting. It then got stuck again, I forced it shut again, restarted again, and now it seem to work but I won't overdo it and will switch off smoothly after writing this (unless it gets stuck again). Last April I have replaced the HD, so it's now just under 6 months old. And, of course, since the crash occurred when I was abroad and had backed up just before I left, I have lost only a few days' work. Still, and I know this will make me hugely unpopular here, with my 5 previous laptops running on MS Windows I never had a problem. Which does not mean I loved the OS, or I would not have switched to Mac.
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Is this the same computer you ask about in your other thread here?
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Dear applescript genius,
I have had help, came a long way, but got stuck again.
I am still facing a lot of problems, but this one is now top 1 prio for me.
I am trying to automate creating a new event in facebook.
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And then the last lines of code
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What happens s that when yu run this code the form elements seem te have taken over the data. However when you click on create non of the info is "taken over" (except for the first element where the Keystroke command is used)
Can someone please help me to make a next step in this code?
Thanks
jschaafsma
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global when_Pointer
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