Mac os x leopard auto ejects wont stay in

im trying to reformat my hard-drive. but the installation disk wont stay inside laptop. it ejects as soon as i insert it. is there anything else i can do?

1.This may occur if the installation disk is not suitable for the machine, ie, an install DVD that came with another Mac.
2. The disk could be damaged and not readable.
3. The optical drive could be defective.
If the DVD disk is good, you could connect another Mac to it using FireWire target disk mode
and use the other Mac's optical drive to reformat the drive and presumably reinstall the OS from the DVD.
If you don't wish to install the OS but simply reformat the drive, than using the other computer's Disk Utility for that purpose, will be enough to achieve that.
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