How to eject stuck disc

my disc drive does not eject a dvd. any way to mechanically eject the disc?

I had the same problem: a DVD that was inserted by my teenager (who knows how to insert a DVD) would not read and also not eject the normal way. I found that I had to log out of my user id and completely shut down, then restart while holding down the eject key the whole time. Just holding down the roller ball on the mouse while I did a restart from within my user id did not do it.

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http://guides.macrumors.com/Force_Eject_a_Stuck_CD_or_DVD
http://www.mactrast.com/2012/10/how-to-force-eject-a-stuck-cd-or-dvd/
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Or another option is there is an arrow with a line under it in the upper right on the Keypad press it and it will eject the disc in the Superdrive or Optical Drive.
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Hello stewmail,
Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with the disk that will not eject. I recommend the following steps:
If you can’t eject a CD or DVD
Choose Apple menu > Log Out, and then log in again. Try to eject the disc again.
If you still can’t eject the CD or DVD, choose Apple menu > Restart. While your computer restarts, hold down the mouse button or trackpad button until the disc is ejected.
You can find the full article here (the article title refers to Mountain Lion, but these steps will work for Mavericks too):
OS X Mountain Lion: If you can’t eject a disk
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10685
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
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Measurements of stuck disc as promised:
When I replied to TWG on Nov 18 2007 I said if I ever get this sucker out I promised to measure it in all dimensions down to a thousandth of a millimeter and post it here.
I got it out. I measured all the other Sony discs in the ten pack and they are remarkably the same notably the center hole and thickness; of coarse they vary some but all are within the same tolerance range disc to disc. Perhaps the stuck disc is singular in one or more dimensions.
The discs are Sony CD-R 700MB "supremas" GB0318C73C131A80
ambient temp 17 c (63 F) when I measured the discs.
Measured with Mitutoyo digital mic and inside telescoping gage.
For comparison I used a disc from same batch that has been burned and played without getting stuck in the drive.
The only significant difference I see is the stuck disc is thicker:
The thickness of the stuck disc is 1.199mm, 1.187 and 1.183 The thickness of the usable disc is 1.166mm, 1.151 and 1.147. These were taken at three places along the outer rim within one centimeter of the outer rim. (interesting to note the discs thickness tends to get thinner as you move toward the center).
id 15.059mm on stuck disc and on usable disc.
There appears to be a more pronounced bur on the disc that stuck than the others. the bur is on the same side as the manufacture's brand label. I don't have a good way to measure the bur. The bur may or may not have a bearing on the disc sticking but there is enough bur it could conceivably have folded over and wedged the hole to the center cone of the drive.
I note a bur around the whole of the outside diameter of the stuck disc that is missing from the usable disc. This could be a result of my fishing expedition to get the disc out but the bur is notably consistent all the way around.
od of the stuck disc at largest diameter 119.85mm
od of the usable disc at largest diameter 119.84mm this is a much rougher measurement than the id due to my equipment
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I don't recommend this method. When the disc was stuck in the drive it would open iTunes and then cycle through several attempts to eject and and then would, for the most part, give up and be silent. Now that I have the disc out the drive apparently is completely baffled and continuously cycles as if I had just put in a disc but there is never an icon. In addition the sheet metal thing is across two centimeters of the slot and prevents putting in another disc.
Please if any one knows how to enter a command to put the metal thing out of the way and or disable the drive so it doesn't cycle I would appreciate it if you would tell me. Disc utility does not list the optical drive now that I have the disc out.
Also if any one knows of a drive I can put in that is a better quality drive to replace the MATSHITADVD-R UJ-85J original turkey equipment from Mac. My computer is intel duo 17" iMac early 2007
My advice to anyone with one of these computers (and it is a magical machine in every other way) is to just use an external optical drive connected to a fire wire port and never bother with the slot mount internal drive; unless you don't need the discs you put in it or you have a lot of free time to go back and forth to the mac store, repeatedly, for new warranted computers.
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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
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