If something small got stuck in your disk drive what steps do you take to remove it?

if something small got stuck in your disk drive what steps do you take to remove it?

Depending on the model of Mac I would first try to tilt the unit to see if you can get whatever you got stuck in there nearer the edge. Do not shake the Mac to move the object - you could cause damage to internal components.
The next best thing is to use a very fine pair of tweezers or pliers and try to remove the object. Sometimes a credit card or firm business card may also help you move the object nearer to the lip of the optical drive.
Be warned though - you are not supposed to stick anything into the optical drive yourself to try and remove something as you could cause further damage. Your best bet is to take it into an Apple Store and have them remove it. Just as another warning though - this would count as accidental damage and so is not covered under your Applecare if you have it. You'll have to pay out of pocket to get the object removed.
Regards,

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How do you eject a cd stuck in your disk drive??

how do you eject a cd stuck in your disk drive??

Force eject a stuck cd/dvd
First try the normal methods to remove the disc. Drag its icon to the Trash can in the Dock or select 'Eject' from the File menu.
If you are running a virtual machine, e.g. VMFusion, ensure that the CD is disconnected from the virtual machine. This will sometimes allow the CD to now show up in Mac OS X.
Shut down the computer and start up whilst holding down the mouse button. This may take some time, but keep your finger on the mouse button right up until the disc comes out or the log-in screen has appeared.
If you have Toast Titanium installed on your computer, choose EJECT DISC from the menubar.
Sometimes you can successfully use the eject disc button in iTunes even if the disc is not visible to the Finder
Open Disc utility and choose the disc you wish to eject in the left-hand pane, then click on the Eject button.
Some Macintoshes have a paperclip hole that you can insert a straightened paperclip into, manually triggering the eject mechanism.
Open Terminal and type "drutil tray eject" to eject the disc/tray, and "drutil tray close" to close the tray.
If your computer has an eject button on the keyboard, restart the computer holding down the Option key. When the startup disk selection screen appears, let go of the option key and press the keyboard's eject button.
Source: http://guides.macrumors.com/Force_Eject_a_Stuck_CD_or_DVD

There i something stuck in my disk drive

My macbook pro has something stuck in the disk drive
can i fish it out or something?
im scared to open it or void warranty

I would take it to your nearest apple store or AASP as you may accidentally damage something in the process of trying to remove it yourself.

A CD is stuck inside my disk drive!

I CD got pushed into my disk drive and now it won't eject. It also won't read the drive. It keeps making noises when I open the laptop and log on as if it is trying to eject, but it never works. I'm pretty sure my disk drive is dead, but any way to get the disk out?

Five ways to eject a stuck CD or DVD from the optical drive
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
      left mouse button until the disc ejects.
2. Press the Eject button on your keyboard.
3. Click on the Eject button in the menubar.
4. Press COMMAND-E.
5. If none of the above work try this: Open the Terminal application in
      your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following:
        /usr/bin/drutil eject
If this fails then try this:
Boot the computer into Single-user Mode. At the prompt enter the same command as used above. To restart the computer enter "reboot" at the prompt without quotes.

During the last week my Iphone has been switching off/on on its own and now my Iphone got stuck at the apple logo.What should I do?

During the last week my Iphone has been switching off/on on its own and now my Iphone got stuck at the apple logo.What should I do?A month ago it also happened but then everything got back to normal.A person told me to change th display...what should i do?please help!

Hey adinat,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities! I would go through the steps in the iPhone troubleshooting assistant and see if that resolves the issue you're experiencing on your iPhone 5:
Frozen or unresponsive iPhone
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/phone/
Regards,
David

I am not able to delete or write my files to my external hard disk drive what shall i do?

i am teja i brought a new mac book air here i am not able to write or delete the files that are present in a external hard disk drive what shall i do now to enable required permisions................plz reply me i am new to mac

I guess your external drive is Windows (NTFS) formattet.
By default you were only able to read from that drive, as Mac doesent support NTFS write.
If you want to have read/write access to a NTFS volume you have to use add-in tools like MacFuse or Paragon on your Mac.
Not having write or delete permissions on the external drive may also preventyou from changing existing files on that drive.
Right click on the drive in Finder and choose "Information" from the menu will give you more information about the reasons of your problem.
Lupunus

Folder with Question Mark and a useless disk stuck in my disk drive!

Hello,
earlier on today my computer crashed. I have read on a couple of posts that I should try to boot the computer from the install disk. Cool. The only problem is that when my computer crashed I had a CD in the disk drive. When I try to start the computer up I see a question mark and folder, but will not respond to any commands like "eject" or even holding the mouse button.
What do I do? I'm in Korea and going back to Canada in two weeks, but I need my computer!

Hi,
The Question Mark folder implies that your MacBook can't find a System Folder to boot from. It doesn't mean the drive is bad.
Are you holding down the C key while booting? Make sure the MacBook is shut down. Now, press the power button, hold down the C key and insert the restore disk all at the same time. Keep holding down the C key until you see the Apple logo on the screen, then let go. You should see an Installer window, select English. DO not proceed with any installation.. do this. From the Menu Bar, click Utilities/Startup Disk. When that window opens, select MacintoshHD 10.x.x and click the Restart button. That will boot your Mac back up from the hard disk, not the restore disk. If this works, don't forget to eject your restore disk and store it in a safe place.
More help for the question mark: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1440
Carolyn
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I am dual booting my mackbook pro with windows 7 64 bit. Yesterday it started locking up at the disk drive selections screen, when you hold down the "option" butting when powering on. I have been searching all morning, and so far nothing. Thanks. :)

Hey folks,
I have been using bootcamp for months now with windows 7 64 bit, and its been fine, yesterday while I was rebooting to do some gaming, at the hard drive selection screen when you boot holding the "options" butting down, it locks up when I select the windows drive and just sits there for ever. It doesn't throw an error, it boots fine into Lion.
I searched all morning and didn't find anything, was hoping that someone might have an idea.
Thanks in advance

Search again. Microsoft has tips on what to do and Windows has a number of features
system restore points
automatic system repair using the Win7 DVD
system restore image creation
Just like you would with OS X Lion and Lion Recovery and Repair
Use WinClone 3 www.twocanoes.com $20 to make an image just like you would with Disk Utility Restore or Carbon Copy Cloner
rollback to last known good boot check point
rollback a driver or program or any changes
clean out temp files
clean registry
chkdsk
https://discussions.apple.com/people/The%20hatter?view=bookmarks

I'd like to get your opinion: POLL: What font do you use?

People,
I am curious to know what font you guys use for text in your various corporate projects? I'v used Helvetica for years, as it is corporate and clean, but I am looking for others.
POLL: What font do you use - let's say for corporate brochure/annual reports texts?

Jack,
You may also have a look at some of the font talks in the Typography forum, or start a thread there; among the latest was this one: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.ef602ce.59b709a5
Obviously, the wrapping should fit the contents.
When all is said, I still prefer the fairest font.

After downloading Yosemite Installation got stuck as the disk needs repair but is not available.

Now I can't access my Time machine and it has not backed up since 3 months. I am stuck as i don't know how to get back to my old OS and basically ignore the Yosemite download until I figure out what is wrong with my SSD. I successfully replaced the HDD several months ago with a Crucial 240GB SSD and had no issues at all while working on it. However, now I seem to be completely stuck: can't get back to 10.9, can't back up to my Time Machine, can't even erase the disk and lose 3 months of data because of some disc mounting issue. What a mess I have created. Please help.

Ok everyone,
I may have a solution. I too installed Yosemite only to be stuck with nowhere to go because I couldn't repair my disk in the Disk Utility. I would verify over and over and sometimes I could click repair and sometimes it was grayed out. I would get red messages saying you can't unmout the disk, you can't repair it, etc. So, I read on another forum some chick used her CD of snow leopard and reinstalled that OS versus trying to install Mavericks again (which I tried too, but the disk was locked because it wasn't repaired). So I popped in the CD, restarted my computer and pulled up disk utility again. The first time I ran the repair function I actually got a kernel message (which is bad) and had to restart again. The second time, however, I ran the repair and it fixed it! I got a nice green message saying the disk had no issues appeared to be ok. So, I went to reinstall snow leopard and my Macintosh disk was no longer locked because it was repaired! I just installed it and I'm waiting for my computer to reboot so cross your fingers that this works.
I feel like this is good news because it makes me think that I don't actually have a hard drive issue but rather Yosemite was corrupted. I take very good care of my iMac so it would be heartbreaking if I had to put money into it when I've never had issues with my apple products In the past. Hope this helps anyone in the struggle. I'm not smart enough to hook up external hard drives and run programs or type code into the terminal. So consider this the simple man's resolution (I'm a woman). Feel free to ask me any questions, I'll check back when I can.

Need Disk 2 for10.4.2 got stuck asking for disk 2

I purchased a used Imac G5 with 10.5 on it. I need 10.4 for a billing program I use. The Imac G5 install disk 1 came with the G5. I started the install and got 3/4 done, then it asks for disk 2. Bad news? No disk 2. The previous owner said he never used the disk and there is only the one I have.
Whenever I boot the computer, it turns on and asks for Disc 2. Is there any way to get in and take off the 10.4 update I did? That way I can go back to running 10.5 [I have no disk for 10.5 it was just loaded on the machine]. I can boot the computer using my external drive that has 10.4.11 on it. Any help is much appreciated.
I had to purchase this G5 because my Imac G4 15 flat panel was dealt a double power surge on Monday and died. Luckily Mac folks able to make a complete copy of the contents on the hard drive.
Thank you in advance, it has been quite a week.

You can call Apple Customer Relations 800-767-2775 and they will send you the install discs for a small fee.
Do call them and have the serial # handy. But someone a couple of weeks ago, reported that Apple said they didn't have any more. (It was for iMac PPC (2005 I think). So if you get some Post back.
One thing you can try with the one disk, is before the install starts, click on the custom button, and uncheck as much as possible. When it ask for #2, I think its looking for applications to install and maybe X11. Good luck
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My phone froze during a game and when I went to hard boot, it got stuck during shot off. What do I do now?

My phone 4S froze during a game. I went to hard boot to turn off and it did nothing for 15 minutes. Then it froze during the hard boot. It has been stuck now for over two hours. What do I do know?

First open the iPhoto Library package with the Finder as shown in this screenshot:'
Look for the file named iPhotoLock.data and move it to the Trash in the Dock. Launch iPhoto and see if that helped.
If not Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - run Option #4 to rebuild the database.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button and select the library you want to add in the selection window..
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
OT

DVD-R got stuck in my iMac27" Drive

urgent help welcomed!

check out Kappy's user tip:
Five ways to eject a stuck CD or DVD from the optical drive
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 left mouse button until the disc ejects.
2. Press the Eject button on your keyboard.
3. Click on the Eject button in the menubar.
4. Press COMMAND-E.
5. If none of the above work try this:
Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following: /usr/bin/drutil eject.
If this fails then try this:
Boot the computer into single-user mode. At the prompt enter the same command as used above.
To restart the computer enter "reboot" at the prompt without quotes.

How do i remove a small cd stuck in the cd drive

I am failing to remove a mini disc that i inserted in the cd drive. Can anyone tell me how to do it

Hold vertical with MONITOR TOP facing down about 30 degrees, with superdrive slot down.
Holding it perfectly super-drive down the mini disk can get caught on the loader or plastic loading slots.
the TOP inside of the superdrive is SMOOTH, and the disk will slide out easier/quicker.
I just had to fix 2 superdrives last night for another issue, ....memories

Poll: How many users on your apps and what hardware are you using?

I am curious about the collective experience and performance of others APEX applications and how much "horsepower" your hardware has.
I have a need to support 20-30 users and am using a Windows XP machine with 1.99 Gig of RAM and a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 CPU.
Any thoughts on this?

For my personal use, I'm renting a Celeron 2.4ghz with 1Gig RAM running CentOS, Oracle XE and Apex 3.2 at a data center 1200 miles away. Seems to work fine. I find the biggest issue is network bandwidth. I originally had a 10Mb link to the datacenter's backbone, now have a 100Mbit. The difference was night and day.
For work (speaking only of our Apex servers), we've got:
One Dell 2way P4 with 4G RAM and 10,000 RPM drives.
It runs 2 10G instances and several Apex apps and it also runs Enterprise Manager Grid Control for 40+ databases. No issues.
Multiple prod/dev/test servers.
All are VIRTUAL running on VMWare ESX3.5. Each database VM has 2 gig of RAM and 2 "CPUs" running 11g/Apex3.2 on Oracle Linux. They all work fine.
I find that a poorly written app can crush just about any hardware you can throw at it. Luckily we don't have any of those ;).
I suspect that your hardware would be fine, particularly if running Linux. I cannot speak to Oracle/Apex on XP. I suspect you might be disappointed, mostly because it is tuned for interactive use rather than background applications (services). Not trying to be a Windows vs Linux troll here, just saying that if you are running a workstation with Oracle/Apex and you on it and expect to support 20-30 other people, you are all likely to be disappointed. Apex/Oracle should be on dedicated server hardware with a server OS.
You also aren't giving us much info on your hardware; 7200RPM IDE/SATA drives aren't going to be as fast as 15KRPM SCSI or SAS, etc.
It wouldn't surprise me if your well written application was able to support 20-30 users with the hardware you are describing (though I won't vouch for the OS).
Google for "apex.oracle.com" and "poweredge 1950" that will take you to this link:
http://joelkallman.blogspot.com/2009/06/who-says-application-express-cant-scale.html
The whole thing apparently serves up 6 million page hits a week with a 1.5Gig SGA. That's a lot of work on a pretty small box.

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