Sorted out. Typed drutil eject into Terminal and Voila! Phew!
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Hi Peter,
Have you tried opening Terminal app and typing drutil
eject (without the quotes).?
See if that will eject the CD.
Cheers,
Ronni
17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard
On 04/10/2009, at 8:06 AM, Peter Curtis wrote:
Hi Daniel
Hi Peter,
The CD may just be getting stuck on the side of the drive - I've
removed a stuck disc like this before with some thin tweezers and I
was able to to push the disc in the correct direction as it was trying
to eject.
In the end, I had to replace the drive as the mechanism was
This is an issue with the original MacBook Pro, particularly with
certain DVDs. Apple choses to ignore this problem.
If you are lucky it might eject if you are holding the computer with
the disc opening pointing downward and let gravity assist in ejecting
the disc. Even encourage it with
Hi again Peter,
If all our suggestions so far have failed to eject the stuck CD.
Disrupt the spin:
If you listen carefully, you can probably hear your optical drive
powering up down over and over again.
As long as the disc spins, it’s not coming out.
1. Find a very thin piece of cardboard
Having just got back online!
Hi Ronda
I did that and nothing happened
I'll go onto the next thing suggested and keep you posted
Thanks
Peter
On 04/10/2009, at 8:31 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Peter,
Have you tried opening Terminal app and typing drutil
eject (without the quotes).?
See if
H Gav
I'm not game to try this
Thanks
Peter
On 04/10/2009, at 8:30 AM, Gavin Criddle wrote:
Hi Peter,
The CD may just be getting stuck on the side of the drive - I've
removed a stuck disc like this before with some thin tweezers and I
was able to to push the disc in the correct
Hi Eugene
Tried this with no success
Thanks
Peter
On 04/10/2009, at 8:38 AM, Eugene wrote:
This is an issue with the original MacBook Pro, particularly with
certain DVDs. Apple choses to ignore this problem.
If you are lucky it might eject if you are holding the computer with
the disc
what you (and they) said
correctly.
Thanks
Peter
p.s.
I've restarted a few times and sometimes, as the person said on
silvermac said, the computer won't start at all.
On 04/10/2009, at 8:51 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi again Peter,
If all our suggestions so far have failed to eject the stuck
H Peter,
Have you tried to attached an external mouse … if not connect an
external mouse and restart the system and hold down the mouse button
during the restart. This method has worked for me on a number of
occasions.
Good luck
Peder
On 04/10/2009, at 9:36 AM, Peter Curtis wrote:
H
:51 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi again Peter,
If all our suggestions so far have failed to eject the stuck CD.
Disrupt the spin:
If you listen carefully, you can probably hear your optical drive
powering up down over and over again.
As long as the disc spins, it’s not coming out.
1. Find
Hi Peder
Tried that too, no success
Thanks
Peter
On 04/10/2009, at 9:57 AM, Peder Kristensen wrote:
H Peter,
Have you tried to attached an external mouse … if not connect an
external mouse and restart the system and hold down the mouse button
during the restart. This method has worked
at all.
On 04/10/2009, at 8:51 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi again Peter,
If all our suggestions so far have failed to eject the stuck CD.
Disrupt the spin:
If you listen carefully, you can probably hear your optical drive
powering up down over and over again.
As long as the disc spins, it’s
.
On 04/10/2009, at 8:51 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi again Peter,
If all our suggestions so far have failed to eject the stuck CD.
Disrupt the spin:
If you listen carefully, you can probably hear your optical drive
powering up down over and over again.
As long as the disc spins, it’s not coming
at all.
On 04/10/2009, at 8:51 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi again Peter,
If all our suggestions so far have failed to eject the stuck CD.
Disrupt the spin:
If you listen carefully, you can probably hear your optical drive
powering up down over and over again.
As long as the disc spins, it’s
again Peter,
If all our suggestions so far have failed to eject the stuck CD.
Disrupt the spin:
If you listen carefully, you can probably hear your optical
drive powering up down over and over again.
As long as the disc spins, it’s not coming out.
1. Find a very thin piece of cardboard or even
, at 8:51 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi again Peter,
If all our suggestions so far have failed to eject the stuck CD.
Disrupt the spin:
If you listen carefully, you can probably hear your optical
drive powering up down over and over again.
As long as the disc spins, it’s not coming out.
1
p.s.
I've restarted a few times and sometimes, as the person said on
silvermac said, the computer won't start at all.
On 04/10/2009, at 8:51 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi again Peter,
If all our suggestions so far have failed to eject the stuck
CD.
Disrupt the spin:
If you listen carefully
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