Too Small CD Stuck in Disc Drive!

I have a small CD disk in the slot for the optical disc drive. Probably too small, and it is non-conventional shape, straight-sided. Computer does not recognize that the disc is there, and none of the usual techniques to eject work. Is this now a mechanical repair job?
I have a MacBook Pro, 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running 10.5.5.
Armando

I strongly recommend that you take the computer to an Apple repair shop. Depending on how far you've managed to get the disc inserted (and stuck) you may not have done any damage to the drive. However, given the nature of the slot loading drive, an amateur's attempts to dislodge it by mucking about with various instruments could result in a hefty repair fee.

Similar Messages

2 cd's are stuck in disc drive

i have 2 cds stuck in disc drive an do not have phone service for apple care help nor can i get to a service center

Then you'll have to either wait until you can get the machine to a service provider or remove the drive, take the cover off it, and remove the discs manually. You can find good illustrated instructions for removing the drive here:
http://www.ifixit.com/Browse/MacBook_Pro
Be careful to pick the right instruction set for your particular MBP model, and don't try the do-it yourself procedure unless you have the necessary tools.

DVD stuck in disc drive

Hi everybody,
I currently have a DVD stuck in my disc drive. I fell asleep yesterday night watching the DVD using the "DVD Player" application that is the default for playing a DVD. When I woke up, DVD Player wouldn't quit and I had to force quit the program. I didn't use the DVD Player for the rest of the day, but in the evening, I tried to reopen DVD Player to finish the DVD. It said: "There was an initialization error. A valid DVD drive could not be found. [-70012]" I tried to eject the disc by pressing the "eject" button on the keyboard, but that did absolutely nothing. Now the DVD is stuck in the drive, not showing up on my computer, and I am not able to eject it. What can I do to get it out?
Thanks
-Marsha

Apart from the fact that you would need to use the mouse button, rather than the MBP's trackpad button, no, it shouldn't make any difference. Try shutting down the Mac (rather than restarting), then booting it up again while holding down the primary mouse button.
Another trick is to start up Disk Utility and , if the disc is visible, eject it from there.
Sometimes, if the problem is actually due to the drive itself not being recognised as present, a "PRAM reset" will make it appear again.
On PowerPc Macs you can achieve the same result using "open firmware" commands, but unfortunately these don't work with the Intel models.
Cheers
Rod

3 inch disc stuck in disc drive

I accidently put a 3 inch disc in my mac book disc drive and now it's stuck. Does anyone know how to get it out? Thanks.

You can try to shake it out, but if you aren't successful you need to take it in for service in order to have the disc removed.

Small dvd stuck in dvd drive

My son stuck a small dvd into the dvd drive in my MacBook Pro and now I can't get it out. The size of the dvd is much smaller than standard... it came with a watch I bought my husband for Christmas. Any ideas on how to eject? I tried going to Launchpad and Terminal and typing in drutil eject when prompted. Unfortunately that didn't work.

You may have to take the computer to the Apple store or an Apple Authorized Service Provider
to get the cd removed.
Best.

Disc stuck in disc drive but computer doesn't detect disc

I put it in and it's stuck, and I tried a bunch of methods, but the computer doesn't detect the disc and I can't get it out. Help please!!!!

   If you have not tried any of these steps, try it.
   1. Restart the computer and hold the trackpad down.
   2. Launch iTunes and eject from there.
   3. Launch Terminal.
    Applications > Utilities > Terminal
    Type in   drutil eject internal
   Press enter.

My Macbook won't go to the login screen and the Lion OS-X is stuck in disc drive

I can't get my mac in safe mode I just circle slash screens or question folder. How can at least get to safe mode

Well first off there is no Lion 10.7 disk, did you make one from these instructions?
http://eggfreckles.net/notes/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/
To boot form this disk (or a 10.6 disk) you need to hold the c or option key down.
Gizmo9 wrote:
I can't get my mac in safe mode...
Hold the shift key down while booting enters Safe Mode.
I just circle slash screens...
That's a no-good disk sign
or question folder.
That says it can't find your OS X boot partition, try holding the Option Key down while booting and select either the Lion Recovery Partition or the OS X partition then set OS X partiton in your System Preferences> Starup Disk.

CD is stuck in disc drive!

I have a MacBook Pro and I have a CD stuck.
I have tried ...
Restarting the MacBook while pressing the left mouse on the trackpad and it sounds like the cd is trying to eject but it does not.
I have tried ...
Going to the Utilities Folder then Terminal then typing Trutil Eject and it sounds like the cd is alsontrying to eject but it does not.
I have tried ...
Dragging the cd icon to the trash icon and same thing!
PLEASE HELP ANYONE!

http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1015
Note MacBooks run neither Mac OS 9, nor Classic. Please find a better place to post for future questions, as there are far more people in the other forums who can answer the questions:
http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2463

Disc Drive Noise in my new Penryn MacBook Pro

I just received my new MBP yesterday and the first time I inserted a disc it made a very obvious clicking sound when loading. I recently worked with a previous generation Santa Rosa 2.2 GHz MBP and its disc drive was very smooth and virtually silent. The clicking from my new MBP is too loud to not be concerned when considering that my previous MBP's drive was so smooth. I'll be going by the apple store to compare how the display models act when I insert a disc. Has anyone had or not had this experience with their MacBook Pro?

This article might shed some light: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305478
I too found my MBP's disc drive disturbingly noisy when inserting a disc, but it matches completely with Sample 1 under Inserting a disc. My older 2.16GHz MBP made less sound, similar to Sample 2. Pretty disappointing.

Small Disc into the disc drive problem due to it now being stuck!

My little sister borrowed my Macbook this morning and was uploading software onto it and it came on a small disc - she didn't realise but said disc wouldn't work on my laptop and just shoved it in. Now it's stuck.
I'm sure other people may have had this problem, anyone know now how to get said disc out of my disc drive without damanging it....

Most reports are that you can take it to an Apple Retail Store and they'll extract it as a courtesy. There are several in your reported area. They could conceivably charge for it though. It might be helpful to get an appointment, but you might not need one. You could just call ahead and ask if you should get an appointment or just walk in.
http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/storelist/

Disc stuck in optical drive.

My problem is pretty lame. A friend of mine gave me this mini-cd-thingy asking me to check the content of it on my macbook, but once I inserted it I realized that it probably is too small to even be noticed by my optical drive, and so it was, and so it's stuck inside there now.
How on earth am I going to get it out? I tried ejecting, poking and shaking it out, but nothing works. Gezez, how stupid.

This is why your user manual says not to insert any nonstandard-sized discs into the drive.
You might have some success by inserting a thin, flexible plastic card or postcard-weight piece of paper into the drive slot and using it to try to guide the disc to the slot while someone else holds the machine up on edge for you. If not, then having a technician remove the drive, take the cover off it and extract the disc is going to be all you can do. Your warranty won't cover that, nor any damage you or the disc may have done to the drive by then.
Note: It's probably not a good idea to use the machine while the disc remains inside, since starting up, waking, and perhaps other actions cause the drive to spin up and move mechanical parts around. If the disc gets wedged in the wrong place and that happens, you could have worse problems.
Message was edited by: eww

Backup disc too small?

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro and used a Time Machine backup to transfer all the files from my old MacBook Pro to the new one. Now, I am trying to set up Time Machine on the new laptop with the same external hard drive I was using a Time Machine backup disc with my old computer. The backup fails and tells me the backup disc is too small.
Now, the backup disc has 58.43 GB available out of 499.97. The data on my internal harddrive is 141 GB, with about 607 GB free.
So, yes, 141 is more than 58. But why doesn't it just overwrite the old data? It is supposed to delete the oldest backup and replace it with the newest one, right?
Do I need to reformat the backup disc? Do I need a backup disc that's larger than my internal HD even if I'm not using all that space?

sarahbuck wrote:
I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro and used a Time Machine backup to transfer all the files from my old MacBook Pro to the new one.
If you used Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant to do that, when the first backup started, you should have gotten the prompt in #B5 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting. If you selected "Reuse Backup," Time Machine shouldn't be doing a full backup.
If you used some other method, you won't get that message, and TM wants to do a full backup. But since it won't ever delete your last remaining backup, there isn't enough room.
Your best bet is to erase the TM drive and start over.
Do I need to reformat the backup disc? Do I need a backup disc that's larger than my internal HD even if I'm not using all that space?
The drive needs to be much larger than the amount of data it's backing-up. Usually 2-3 times is best, but it varies greatly depending on how you use your Mac.

Library folder missing after removing a small disc from the disc drive.

Recently, one of my relatives accidentally put a disc inside our iMac disc drive that was too small. We didn't know what to do, so we called one of our neighbors. He read instructions online and was able to remove the disc without harm done to anything in and on the iMac. The system rebooted, and everything had looked back to normal. Once I used the iMac again, I saw that I had no ability to change desktop images. Everything was a grey rectangle with a question mark in it. I had no idea why. On to another subject. One of my sons loves to play a game called Minecraft. After the reboot, he noticed that wouldn't work either. He figured out the the main .jar file was located in Library>Application Support>Minecraft. We then figured out our Library folder was missing. I have no idea how to get it back, or what to do. Please help me ASAP. Also, this happened BEFORE the OS X Lion update, which we now have.
Thanks,
Karen.

sorry it's 2:30am and I just lost 2-3 days work.crashing after this note.
I had backups and reloaded from 3-days back on a seperate drive _ 'files'
this was created after the crash when I tried to restart lightroom..this is in root of OS disk I was using a seperate drive. named 'photos2'
this drive filled up on import and lightroom crashed on rendering previews 666gi of usable space
should be 45+ gigs available trying to delete files..something went wrong..when lightroom crashed!
I will not try and build a single catalog master system for 250000 plus photos, I lost the 60000 new images added to catelog..and last few days cleaning, filing and rating..harsh way to loose a weekend!
the program possibly filled the drive and corrupted a sector of disk some how??..my best synopsis at this time.
I'm at a loss and just wanted to report my experiance, I know finalcut had a preffence to not fill a disk past a certin point in this case 4.5 gigs seems to be the last sector..I'll check LR
Check back tomorrow.. I'm going down a looser..thanks for your help!..let you know if cocktail fixes anything.
cheers
Darrin

How do I eject a disc stuck in my drive?

How do I eject a disc stuck in my disc drive? I have tried all the normal eject methods.

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,
Sheila M.

Drive view in landscape mode still too small even ...

Sorry but I downgrade my maps version to 3.06. the new drive layout is still leaving the actual maps viewing area way too small.I am using an N8 with belle FP1. The car symbol on the street/road should be re-aling to the center of the main screen and the L/H side buttons/information zone could stay bigger for ease of use but could also become semi-transparent instead of plain black to let see the remaining of the map to have a full view. At least with ver 3.06 when ''just drive'' was selected all the unnecessary informations is remove to give ''close to'' full screen view apart from the bottom menu keys.to have a close to 4 inch screen and only get a 2 1/2 view of the mas while driving is very sad.
For the maps portion now the favorites are white square with a yellow star in it, the blue square with the white star was better looking on maps 3.06 and also the rendering of the main roads where ranging from yellow to red depending of the speed zone. This also was better looking than the drab gray of the new version either on maps mode or on drive mode.
All the rest of the improvement are great in term of better ease of use while driving but defenitely some element from the previous 3.06 version should have been kepted from my point of view.

Is Orientation Lock on?
<http://applelife.tv/2010/07/iphone-orientation-lock/>

Too Small CD Stuck in Disc Drive!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for