Force eject a cd

a CD is stuck in my macbook pro, it keeps running and there is no reaction when I press the eject key.....
How can I force/eject the CD?

This is the only thing that worked for me while my Macbook is stuck in restart/won't-restart-after-software-update mode. Thanks, Apple, for messing up my laptop. Again.

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How do I force-eject a CD when I cannot even get to the start-up screen?

Friends, Let me first apologize for getting myself into this mess, in the first place.
I bought a second-hand iBook G4 in the U.S., for a friend of mine, and brought it to South America, where I am living for one year, but far from any Mac Repair Center. I am getting the computer ready, to give to my friend, as a gift.
The computer was working perfectly here for the few weeks that I have had it. It has OS 10.3.9 installed, but no OS9. I wanted to install OS9, so that I could give my friend some older software to use with it.
(In fact, I inserted the software CDROM that I was going to give to my friend, into the second computer, to install the program before giving him the disk also. This was an important mistake.)
Moreover, the OS9 disk that came with this second "new" computer does not appear to be the same one that shipped with the computer originally. Consequently, when I tried to install OS9 Classic, it would not install correctly from this disk (although it was indeed made for installing OS9 to another iBookG4, but not this one, apparently.)
Consequently, as a short-cut, I simply copied my own Classic "system folder" from my own (completely) identical iBookG4, transferred it to a pen drive, and was going to move it to the second computer. Not all of the files copied successfully, however (some printer descriptions, for example), but most of them did.
So, I transferred what I could, in the meantime, and now I had a new Classic "system folder" on the second computer.
When starting up the Mac Classic environment there, however, the Classic environment would crash, and in that case I would just close the Classic environment altogether and continue normally in OSX mode, trying to solve the problem. I realized that my "copy" was not good enough.
Then I got the idea to make an "archive" of the original classic folder on my own computer, and then transfer the archive, to see if it would make a more perfect copy this way. It archived perfectly indeed, and at half the size, so I assumed that I would now have all the necessary documents, once it was transferred and decompressed onto the second computer.
Meanwhile, I decided to erase the incomplete corrupt copy of the (classic) system folder on the second computer, to avoid confusion when the new copy was transferred. As I moved it to the trash, the computer told me that it was being used by the system, and that it therefore could not be deleted. Since the classic environment was not running, I assumed that this was some sort of error, meant to protect the folder from accidental deletion regardless of the circumstances. Consequently I re-named the folder, and then deleted it successfully, and received no error message.
I went back to the first computer, to copy the new, archived classic folder to my pen drive. When I did, and returned to the second computer, I noticed that the screen was black there, but the disk, still spinning.
I checked to see if it was the display, or the connection, or if the computer was sleeping, or the screen saver activated, but none was the case.
I re-booted, but there was no start-up chime. The disk spun normally (or perhaps more loudly than normal).
I re-booted, holding down P and R, but no results. The display was completely black (i.e., no ilumination whatsoever, not merely a dark screen, but rather black).
I concluded that the source of the problem was what I had done with the classic folder (renaming it or deleting it).
I got the idea of inserting the system disk, to reboot from the CDROM, but the problem was that there was already a software disk inside, and it would not eject when the eject button was pushed.
I found some suggestions online. I rebooted holding down the track-pad button, for example. No results.
I rebooted holding down CMD OPT SHIFT O F, (or whatever the combinations were that were suggested). No results. I cannot even get a terminal screen to appear, much less a gray screen.
If I close the lid while the computer is running, the computer will NOT go into sleep mode. (So much for the suggestion about forcing an eject from sleep mode).
I noticed a comment online that there might be a force-eject hole inside the felt, but I do not know how to move the felt back well enough to see, nor do I know where to look, or whether there is even such a hole on this model. (if you know of a diagram or photograph online, please direct me)
(Incidentally, if it is any help regarding the model, it is of serial no. UV445CLX_ _ _ , assembled in Taiwan)
How can I force eject the CDROM inside?
Is the solution to reboot from the system software disk, once I succeed in ejecting the CDROM?

You cannot boot an iBook from an external USB drive--only a firewire drive. Actually, the drive is just a drive--it is the enclosure that determines USB vs. FireWire. If you could find an appropriate firewire enclosure, you could remove the drive from the USB enclosure and place it in a firewire enclosure and then be able to boot from that. Or you could just purchase an external firewire drive if those are available where you are.
FireWire external drives are quite useful. One option would be to mount the external drive on the good iBook, format it properly for OS X with Disk Utility, and then use a program like Super Duper to make an exact clone of your internal hard drive. This is a popular way of backing up your stuff. You can boot from either the internal or the external. This means that if your internal hard drive were to die, you would have all your stuff on the external, and could run off of that. Since you are already using the USB for backup, it would probably be best to acquire a new firewire drive for troubleshooting and testing if you decide to go this route, since you really don't want to lose your existing backup.
If you did have a bootable clone, you could see if the sick iBook would boot from it or not. However, it may be more productive to pursue your other thread about the boot problem. I see that Richard has joined the thread as I had hoped he would. He actually works on iBooks and is very knowledgeable.
Also, if you do get the second ibook working and want to install OS9, you might want to post a question in the "Mac OS X v 10.3 Panther and earlier" forum. I'm not up on this myself, but I believe there is something about installing OS 9 drivers while formating or something like that. I believe the smart guys on that forum could give you some guidance so that you can avoid the problems you encountered earlier.
Good luck!

What is the best way to shut down an iMac that has frozen during a data transfer? The disk I was writing to will not eject. Stopping "copy items to" doesn't work either_ it is frozen as well. Is there a way to force eject the disk so I can shut down?

Some more information on the above: OS: 7.2
1. None of the shutdown commands would work so I held the power button down and received a prompt that asked if I wished to force eject the drive, I selected
the force eject and then shut down.
2. Just recently I installed an eSATA _ Thunderbolt_ port multiplier compliant PCIe card (Seritek Q6G) into a thunderbolt external chassis (OWC Helios) (seritek Q6G).
This freeze data transfer also happened when I connected a Firmtek 5PM external tower to the iMac via thunderbolt cable.
The driver for the seritek Q6G was installed in the iMac previous to connection of any of the devices.
Both external towers mount ok on the iMac but have frozen during data transfer.
The initial freeze was with the Firmtek 5PM which is (JBOD)_ I thought that might have had something to do with the freeze_ it being JBOD_ so next I tried the Mercury Elite AL Pro Q2- which is formated in RAID 5. But then froze too.
Anybody have any experience with this?
Maybe I need another driver?
Or maybe some update to my OS?
Any suggestions welcomed.
Thank you

Hello BDAqua, thanx for the suggestions. Before I saw this reply I tried to first quit the finder and then to relaunch the Finder but that resulted was a blank gray screen.
In the end I ended up having to power down the iMac.
Fortunately the RAID array that was "active" seems to be fine and also has a firewire 800 connection so I can use it_ just not with thunderbolt until this issue is solved.
I'm going to check in the Applications>Utilities>system log to see if any clues are evident_ thank you for the suggestion.
PS: Nothing of note was obvious as a root cause in the Activity Monitor though.
hmmm....I was told that the Helios and seritek card were compatable and that the Helios didn't require any drivers..it will be a drag if there isn't an easy fix for this since this new PCIe card from seritek is the first to offer port multiplier compatibility for eSATA to thunderbolt...since they are both new I'm hoping that an OS upgrade will be the fix (presently7.2)...we shall see.

Read only permissions as an Admin & force ejection of osx disk; Other disk?

I have had problems with permissions on my computer for about 2 years now. In the past two years, I've reinstalled my OS about 10 times. In the past month, though, the problems have escalated. I can no longer burn my files to disk successfully because the disk is always ejected before the process can complete. This happened on occasion in the past, but now it happens every time.
I had an external biometric hard drive which I used to back up my files, but after about 10 months of use, it stopped working. I ordered a new one and sent the old one in for repair, but all of my backups were gone.
When I got the new one - it is smaller and more portable, which is a plus, it had already been formatted. I tried to reformat, but within minutes I had no control over my settings and even though I am listed as the only user, I had read only permission for the new drive and had no ability to change any system preferences.
Time to start from the Snow Leopard disk and try to repair permissions, etc. Did repair permissions and reset the permissions under the "Change Password" window in Utilities. When I tried to startup again, I only got a blue screen.
I have a firmware password, so when my drive wouldn't start, I tried again with the option key down and the startup disk in the optical drive - only to find it force ejected over an over. Then I noticed that not only were my two volumes visible, but another Network Server was fading in and out. Currently, my network was unplugged and I have never connected to an external server. Again, I should be the only user on my system.
I have returned the newest hard drive in exchange for a new one, but am uncertain of what to do now if I am unable to reinstall the OS. I have posted the photos I took with my iPhone to show the screen with the three volumes visible and will post the link shortly. Please help!

Image of the screen can be seen here: http://gallery.me.com/iphone/asrodrig1/100033#0

External Hard driver not recognized after force eject while Mac was asleep

So my Samsung hard driver had force ejected itself when my Macbook pro was asleep, it cant be recognized anymore. It doesn't show up under utilities, however it does show up under System report.
I've tried to plug it onto my desktop, however the system had failed to install the software to run the hard drive, yet again it does show up under properties.
Help please???!!!

No. It may just require a 00 Phillips driver depending upon the enclosure. Do the swap on a towel so that the little screws don't bounce away from you. You will have to pull the HDD out from the connecting plug. Do it in a straight line,don't bend it, and you may have to slowly increase pressure to get it out of the connecting plug.
It's not rocket science.
Ciao.

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Restart the computer and hold down the trackpad down.
It will take a while.

Mounting Shuffle causes my external hard drive to be forcefully ejected

Hi,
When I plug in my 2nd gen Ipod shuffle, it mounts in Itunes OK, and then I have a few seconds before I get a message that 'The device was not properly removed', and my external hard drive, which was mounted prior to my mounting the shuffle, and also connects via USB, is no longer on the desktop. All the references to music in Itunes that refer to the external hard drive don't work.
This has been happening repeatedly, to the point where I can't move music from the external HDD to the shuffle, because they can't be mounted at the same time.
Can you help?

I don't have the answer to your problem, but I wanted to let you know you're not alone. Whenever I try to drag and drop a smart playlist (an audiobook - The Great Influenza - eight parts totaling about 264MB) onto my iPod Shuffle 2G icon in the Devices list on the left side of the iTunes window, it will transfer about 5 or 6 of the 8 files that make up the audiobook before the external drive holding my iTunes library gets forcefully ejected and I get a message that it was not properly removed. I also get an error message that I can't copy the disk IPOD because I don't have the proper permissions (or some such).
This is going to get irritating if I have to transfer each song or audiobook part individually.

My external drive won't eject. should I shut down my computer? It says if I force eject, I might lose info stored!

My exernal drive will not eject. Should I shut down my computer? It says if I force eject I might lose info!

Hey I typically have this problem as well. For starters what steps have you went to to eject the drive? Have you just done it from finder or have you gone to the Disk Utility and tried to eject from there as well? If not then I would recommend this first. I would also recommend before doing anything to save any neccessary information that was placed on the drive locally if possible.

Is it safe to force eject a Time Machine disk that is being encrypted?

The Time Machine encryption process is taking over 8 hours, is it okay to force eject it (using Finder's force eject command, not by unplugging the cable) so I can finish the encryption later?

From what many experts say, u should not encrypt TM. I agree, and I am nobody. But think about it. U are entrusting your backup to a new encryption scheme in a .0 release of what people are calling Mac Vista. A safer way to do this would be to put the enclosure in a tamperproof lock box where only you and your trusted other have the key, and if someone tries to take your data the entire enclosure bursts into flames ala Get Smart. That's what I would do, if I were bothered.
Ps. Pulling plugs on harddrives when they are writing is never a good idea. A better way to destroy the drive is to press the big red self destruct button on the before mentioned enclosure.
Message was edited by: coocooforcocoapuffs: added sound advice on destroying hard drives.

HT204384 Force Eject for iMac SD Card Slot?

I put my SD Card I use in my Canon Powershot into the slot on my iMac. There was no resistance as I put it in and nothing happened. Now I can't remove it. Is there a force eject for this slot / reader?

According the pictures I've seen, I don't think so, but most problems are user error. I obviously did something wrong. I am new to macs. Come from the pc world.

10.7.5 Have to Force Eject Ext USB Drive After Sleep

Macbook Pro, Late 2011 (USB 2)
I'm finding that I always have to force eject two different 1TB ext USB HDD's after the computer sleeps. Sometimes I think it's even only after the drive spins down for a while.
Most often it's after I let Time Machine backup my laptop overnight.
I thought it was just this drive, until I got a new drive and it has the same problem, though it's not used for backups.
I've been unsuccessful trying to determine what may be using the drive as the eject error states is happening, but maybe that would help me understand if this is a legitimate problem or a bug. Force ejecting has had no noticeable effects, though it makes me extremely nervous on a backup volume. The other disk is a huge sample library that's not written to unless I add samples, so I don't force ejecting that one as much.
In searches for this problem I have only turned up drives that eject spontaneously.
Thanks for any help.

OK, so a new search in here, not via google, found this:
sudo lsof /Volumes/{volume name}
result:
COMMAND PID   USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
mds      67   root   21r   DIR   14,6      544    2 /Volumes/Backup_1TB
Finder 152 andrew   55r   DIR   14,6      204   88 /Volumes/Backup_1TB/Backups.backupdb
So it looks like spotlight or finder. I'm not browsing the backup volume, but it looks like it thinks I am. I know there are lots of spotlight issues, too, but I;m not sure if that's the case here.
I did try:
mdutil -V /Volumes/Backup_1TB/ -s
/Volumes/Backup_1TB:
    No index.
/Volumes/Backup_1TB/Backups.backupdb:
    No index.
So it would appear that spotlight isn't doing anything...

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I'm trying to make a bootable flash drive for OS X Mavericks but I try to partition my flash drive and it won't let me. It comes up with an error that says this:
Can anyone help me? I try to eject the disk but every time i have to force eject because it says that one or more processes are using the flash drive. Thanks.

Have you tried unchecking the "automatically check for newly published albums" checkbox in prefs / web. Do this for each online account. This worked for me. The source to this solution was on Flickr.

How to force eject cd?

Is it possible to force eject a CD?
Thanks

Here's a few possibilities - there are others if these don't work.
Launch Disk Utility (Utilties folder), select the CD and click on the eject button.
Restart holding down the mouse until it ejects.
Click the icon on the Desktop and click on the Eject button on the keyboard (top right) or drag it to the trash.

Disc in drive that Mini will not recognize, will not eject. Is there any way to force eject? The computer says it's empty, but it's not.

I have a disc in the super drive but cannot eject it because the Mini does not recognize that it's there. I've tried the eject button on top of the screen and in the dvd player controls. I wish there was an eject button on the machine. Is there any way to force eject?
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RGA,
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How to boot from DVD & how to force eject DVD

Hi,
Just installed a new HD on my MBP. I inserted the leopard DVD and it was spinning for about 2 minutes and then nothing happned. Just black screen. Now I tried starting holding the C key down. Nothing. I tried starting holding the eject button down, no eject of the DVD. I tried holding the button below the tracklpad down, no eject of the DVD.
How to boot from a DVD?
How to force eject DVD?
What am I doing wrong?

I hope you get an answer to this as I'm sturggling to
A) start my computer as it just goes to a grey screen
B) Force Eject a DVD
Someone suggested the below on another thread, it didn't work for me but maybe it will work for you.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5869652#5869652
Re: Stuck on Grey Screen.. Won't Boot
Posted: Nov 16, 2007 1:34 PM in response to: aliray10 Reply Email
(I don't have my (no-longer booting) iBook in front of me to check this, but I think this is what I did last night....)
Boot single user -- hold down "cmd-S" immediately after you turn the computer on.
"diskutil list" will give you a list of your disks. My CD drive was disk1.
"diskutil eject disk" should eject the target disk.

Force eject a cd

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