DVD stuck in optical drive

I have my Leopard installation DVD stuck in my optical drive. I can't seem to get it out. I tried all hte usual ejecting methods (dragging it to the trash can, CTRL-clicking and eject). Nothing works.

okey ill tell you my story dude...
i didnt knew that mini discs werent supported by my macbook so i decided to force one in... to my surpise... IT GOT STUCK!! i pushed the eject button did everything i could, the first time i tried eject it made the noise but nothing came out.. i read here in the forums that shaking your macbook could get the cd out.. surprisingly for me it worked... i turned my macbook off, shook it a little and vouala my mini disc came out and i got no damage on my hard drive
this advice is on your discretion only.. im just saying... it did work for me

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when i insert the DVD into the optical drive or press the eject button , the mac book hanged....
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Well there is Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck witch includes step by step instructions to run disk repair without the install disk.
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My grandson apparently tried to insert his game DVD by himself. I can see/feel the edge of the disc in the optical drive. The disc isn't being recognized by Disk Utility, and none of the usual tricks (eject while holding upside down, restart while holding buttons down, etc.) are working.
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+Well, I realize that I'm talking myself here but would really like to give Michael credit.+
Thanks for trying but it's been broken for a while and Apple have no ETA on a fix
http://discussions.apple.com/ann.jspa?annID=469
Some suspect it's (getting rid of points) an experiment to see if it alters who posts/how much ...

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I currently have a DVD stuck in my disc drive. I fell asleep yesterday night watching the DVD using the "DVD Player" application that is the default for playing a DVD. When I woke up, DVD Player wouldn't quit and I had to force quit the program. I didn't use the DVD Player for the rest of the day, but in the evening, I tried to reopen DVD Player to finish the DVD. It said: "There was an initialization error. A valid DVD drive could not be found. [-70012]" I tried to eject the disc by pressing the "eject" button on the keyboard, but that did absolutely nothing. Now the DVD is stuck in the drive, not showing up on my computer, and I am not able to eject it. What can I do to get it out?
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I don't know what the salesperson at the store was thinking. The MBA SuperDrive doesn't work with anything but the MBA, unless you dismantle it (voiding the warranty) and perform a hardware modification which will not be described here. And because it's a USB device, it couldn't boot a Powerbook at all, even if it could be used with one after booting. So someone at the Apple Store needs to be enrolled in a reeducation program ASAP.
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Welcome to the Boards
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I have a collection of about 475 Region-2 DVDs (i.e., playable in the UK, not in the US)
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Hello, i am trying to install the Snow Leopard OS to my MBA (10.5.2) using the optical drive of my iMac (Lion). The moment i power up the MBA (with the option button being pressed) after i log into the wi-fi network, the only boot device i see is the Macintoxcv hard drive. Which is the MBA's hard drive.
I dont see the Optical drive of my iMac with the installation dvd inside. They are both in the same wi-fi network and the sharing is on.
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Apple has restricted booting from optical drives to only internal ones, also I hear you can't install Windows from a external optical drive neither.
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http://www.maciverse.com/reinstalling-os-x-on-macbook-air.html
http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html
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erase the 10.5 install completely from the 10.6 USB and install 10.6.3 (no free iLife)
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Disc stuck in optical drive.

My problem is pretty lame. A friend of mine gave me this mini-cd-thingy asking me to check the content of it on my macbook, but once I inserted it I realized that it probably is too small to even be noticed by my optical drive, and so it was, and so it's stuck inside there now.
How on earth am I going to get it out? I tried ejecting, poking and shaking it out, but nothing works. Gezez, how stupid.

This is why your user manual says not to insert any nonstandard-sized discs into the drive.
You might have some success by inserting a thin, flexible plastic card or postcard-weight piece of paper into the drive slot and using it to try to guide the disc to the slot while someone else holds the machine up on edge for you. If not, then having a technician remove the drive, take the cover off it and extract the disc is going to be all you can do. Your warranty won't cover that, nor any damage you or the disc may have done to the drive by then.
Note: It's probably not a good idea to use the machine while the disc remains inside, since starting up, waking, and perhaps other actions cause the drive to spin up and move mechanical parts around. If the disc gets wedged in the wrong place and that happens, you could have worse problems.
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Mac mini dead, system disc stuck in optical drive

My mini has died:
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I've been using macs for more than 16 years, I've taken many apart to replace RAM, processors, PCI cards and hard disks. I'd like to think I know what I'm doing...
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CD stuck in optical drive

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