My mac will not eject a cd

Tried to burn a cd after a while got an error message and dick came out. I reinserted the disk and tried again. Said to insert blank cd. But the old one was still int there. So will not burn one and acts like there is not one in the dirve. How do I get it out.

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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
      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
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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.

Mac will not eject a disk. What do I do?

I inserted a CD-R to see what was on it- pictures, music, etc. First , the mac takes forever to load the disk onto the screen in the upper right hand corner. Once it pops up, it will not load, I get the beachball of death and it has not ejected it. I have tried re-booting and hold the mouse button, I have opened the terminal and typed 'drutril eject', I have drug the icon to the trash can to get it to pop the disk out all to no avail. To my knowledge, I am out of options. What do I do now? Please help.
I am new to mac and have only had the machine for about two weeks.....just my luck.
Thanks ahead of time to anyone who responds.

I had the exact same problem and was doing the exact same thing as you, looking for what was on a particular disk and got the spinning ball, etc. The drive just seemed slow and quite often, like yours, would not kick the disc out and often it sounded as if the disc was warped because I would get a rubbing sound, etc. But when I inserted the same disc in my wife's iMac (one year older than mine) it ran fine and was very fast. I looked up both drives in system profiler... hers was a Matshita, mine was a Pioneer. I was having so many problems with mine I brought it in under my AppleCare and they replaced the drive with a new Pioneer drive. Got it home and the same thing was happening. Brought it back the very same day and they used my disc in their laptop and it worked fine. They tried it in an identical iMac as mine and it showed the same symptoms as mine. Turns out that machine had a Pioneer drive. Anyway, when I got it back the second time (today), I noticed they replaced my original Pioneer SuperDrive with a Matshita (because I kept saying the Pioneers just didn't seem very good). So now it works great. No problems. No grinding sounds. No spinning balls. If you have AppleCare, ask if you can have your Pioneer (I'm assuming that's what yours is) replaced with a Matshita. It's very anecdotal but the folks at the Genius Bar apparently agreed with me that a Matshita would take care of my issue... which it did.

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you cannot reset or shut down the machine properly unless you hold down the power button.
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After I have import sa CD into iTunes, the CD will not eject from iTunes. If I use the eject keyboard key, or move the CD to trash, I receive a message THE DISK WASN'T EJECTED BECAUSE ONE OR MORE PROGRAMS MAY BE USING IT.
So I FORCE EJECT and that does it (only after a message stating I may damage the contents of the CD).
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For some reason (Firewall / Internet security programs?) the Apple iTunes installation program doesn't install all the necessary components.
There is a way to manually unpack the installation program to it's 6 different components and install each component one by one.
(Advantage: you don't need to uninstall or deactivate your security programs)
Best thing to do is:
1) Download the iTunes installation program (directly from the Apple website
http://www.apple.com )to your desktop,
WITHOUT INSTALLING the iTunes application.
2) Download he WinRAR decompression/unpack utility (for example from:
http://download.cnet.com/WinRAR-32-bit/3000-2250_4-10007677.html?tag=recommended Downloads )
and install it on your desktop for easy use.
3) Unpack the iTunes installation program, using WinRAR by rightclicking the
iTunes installation program and choose 'Open with WinRAR'.
Don't bother with the message from WinRAR about files beïng corrupt
(these are probably the unreadable 'Apple Mac' files).
4) You'l see that the original iTunes installation program consists of 6
different installation programs.
4 utility programs (necessary for iTunes to work correctly)
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- Apple Software Update (Version: 2.1.2.120)
- Apple Mobile Device Support (Version: 3.2.0.47)
- Bonjour (Version: 2.0.3.0)
and 2 main programs
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Copy these 6 programs to your desktop with WinRAR,
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5) Install each program one by one IN CORRECT ORDER:
- First the 4 utility programs, one by one.
- Following this, install QuickTime.
- Install iTunes as last.
6) Check the Windows installed programs list to see if they're all installed.
You can check the versions of te programs by clicking the information toolbar
for each program.
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The Mac will not shut down except by removing the power plug. Does anybody have any suggestions before I call in the "Big Guns"??

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My Satellite A205-S5814 optical drive will not eject when I press the eject button.
Before this problem started, the drive would eject, but sometimes a blank screen would immediately appear after the tray ejected and then the computer would restart itself and give me the option of restarting in safe mode.
Please let me know what may be wrong.
Thanks.

Your machine is booting into a Windows partition.
Apple does not support Windows. They do provide "Boot camp" which allows a knowledgeable person to install XP in a drive partition on a Mac.
However "boot camp" still in "beta" status and some of the keyboard mapping is not the same as a Windows PC, because it's a Mac, not a PC.
Mac's come with Mac OS X standard, not Windows. The copy of Windows you got on the machine was likely put there for demonstration purposes, not for sale. If you know how to hack Windows, I'm sure you could bypass the admin password, that's a "store trick" to sell a product with a illegal copy of Windows.
All Mac's will open the c.d. tray if you reboot holding the mouse button down with a wired keyboard.
You can also reboot again holding "option key" to select a drive partition to boot from, there should be a Mac OS X and a Windows partition, however it's possible the Mac OS X partition was erased.
You can stick the Mac OS X installer disk in the c.d. tray, close it and reboot holding "c". It will boot off the disk. There you can select Disk Utility from the Installer menu and Erase w/Zero the internal hard drive. When finished Quit and install Mac OS X Tiger. Your "store copy" of Windows will be gone of course.
If your unfamiliar with Mac's, Mac OS X, "Boot Camp" with Windows, I suggest you have someone help you. Your in very deep too early in your learning curve.
You'll really need to learn Mac OS X first, then you can play around with "Boot-Camp" and a legal copy of XP in a drive partition.
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