CD/DVD Stuck in SuperDrive – MacBook Pro
Major panic and excitement today, when for some strange reason a freshly burnt CD decided to get stuck in my “SuperDrive”. I’m not sure how this happened, but it just refused to come out. Not only that, the system did not even recognise it so it never showed up as mounted or available. I was in a bit of panic and almost immediately sent a help request to my Apple helpline. In fact, I even setup an appointment for Monday.
But before I did all that, I did a few searches and found that the problem seems to be quite common and there were lots of tips out there.
Click the mouse button as you power on the machine and it is supposed to eject the disc, tried that, did not work. Similarly, I came across many suggestions.
The one that finally worked, was a really odd one. Hold up the machine at a 45 degrees angle and then turn it on while pressing the eject key or the mouse click but with a difference, use a stiff card and slip it into the drive slot that it sort of goes over the CD. Somehow, it seems to make the disc spin and on the next boot it came out happily, saving me the trip to Apple care.
This site seems to have helped a lot of people. Interestingly, enough the original post is from some time in 2006, so two years later this tip still works! Absolutely fantastic. Many thanks to Mike.
For now its back to work.
Cheers…Kishore
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Oh man, you aren’t exactly having the time of your life switching, are you?
Did you finally get a stable Linux distro into the machine?
Pressing the C key when the machine boots up also ejects the cdrom.
@Atul: An extremely fun time for sure! I installed Fedora twice, then gave up and installed Ubuntu. Now I do have things more or less stabilised. So much for becoming a Mac weenie, I’ve done more R&D on this machine in the last weeks than I have done in the last two years
Cheers…Kishore
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@Shres, some of the links I followed had all kinds of combinations, the C at boot up did not work, what finally worked was inserting the “battery card” that finally dislodged the CD or pushed it into place.
Cheers…Kishore
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