Hi Dona, First of all, you can count on it coming from a true novice:
I don't really yet know what I am talking about, but, if the MBP is turned on, try pressing Cmd+Eject and see if that ejects the disk. Johnny On Sep 16, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Doug Lawlor wrote: > Hi Donna, > Try the following: > 1. make sure the machine is powered off. > 2. Hold down the eject button, that is the key to the right of the F12 key > and press the power button while keeping the eject button held down. You > should hear the cd start to spin and then the mac chime. After the chime the > cd should eject. Just keep the eject button held until the cd pops out. > > Doug > > On 2011-09-16, at 9:33 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> thanks for the suggestion Keith. right Now, though, I don't have an OS, so >> can't go into the utilities area to open Terminal. >> Best, >> Donna >> >> On Sep 16, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Keith Watson wrote: >> >>> Donna, >>> >>> I am not sure exactly what is wrong or why you cannot get out your >>> dvd. If you can boot the system I would open terminal from the >>> utilities area and run the following >>> >>> sudo eject /dev/cdrom >>> >>> and see if that doesn't help. >>> >>> >>> Keith Watson >>> 813-760-1381 >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Sep 16, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Donna Goodin <goodi...@msu.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> Because I can neither install from my SL disk, nor get the Mac to >>>> reinstall Lion. I don't know what else to do, and I'm unable to eject the >>>> SL disk at all. >>>> >>>> On Sep 16, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Donna, >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, there's no way to physically eject the disc without having >>>>> the machine turned on, since the only way you can do it is with the eject >>>>> button. Also, why would you need Apple to reinstall the OS? >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >>>>> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 6:39 AM >>>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>> Subject: Is there a manual eject button anywhere on the MBP? >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> OK, since I seem to be out of options here, I don't know what to do except >>>>> take the MBP into the Apple Store and have them reinstall the OS. But I >>>>> don't want to travel with a DVD in the drive. Is there a manual eject >>>>> button anywhere on this thing? >>>>> thanks, >>>>> Donna >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Johnny Angel! beefca...@neo.rr.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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