I believe that a smaller-than-normal CD disk is jammed in my iMac disk slot. It does not show up on my desktop, so I cannot do a normal eject. Any thoughts on how to force an eject? Thanks.
Jammed CD drive on iMac
Good idea about looking on YouTube for information on how to assault the internals of an iMac.
Fortunately, I won't need to do so. Got the disk out using a kludge. I turned off the machine, inserted a slender metal ruler into the disk slot and powered up. As hoped, the ruler triggered the regurgitate-the-disk function of the drive and the (full size) disk slid out.
Why take such a chance? Because the drive was useless with a jammed disk in it, and I figured there was a reasonable chance that my kludge would work. Probable worse case was that it would not and I'd be no worse off. There was the possibility I'd ruin the drive, but that did not seem probable, and it did not happen. I'm using it right now for a program installation.
If I did ruin the drive, I'd just continue using my $39 USB plug-in drive, as I had been doing while trying to figure out how to solve the problem. If I ever upgrade to a new iMac, I will have to use this or similar drive in any case, since the new iMac's come sans an internal superdrive. (I dislike that Apple decided to do away with the drive, but they didn't ask me.)
Anyhow, thanks for the response, and happy computing.
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