Unable to eject/insert CD....Final outcome !

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 3 May 2008 8:38:35 PM To: "WAMUG Mailing List" Subject: Re: Unable to eject/insert CD Hi Ronda, not able to click CD/DVD drive, only thing on the left side is my Hard drive. Did the Terminal advice, but still nothing happened. Thanks for all your input..

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Hi Bill, So you are telling us that the Superdrive (CD/DVD Drive) is not showing in Disk Utility or System Profiler. The iMac is not recognising the drive. We are not sure if a Disc is in the drive. I think it might be time to get a Technician to have a look at it for you. You could try a

Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

On 03/05/2008, at 8:38 PM, Bill Cole wrote: Hi Ronda, not able to click CD/DVD drive, only thing on the left side is my Hard drive. Did the Terminal advice, but still nothing happened. Thanks for all your input.. Bill I'm starting to doubt that there is a disk in there. Try inserting ano

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On 04/05/2008, at 5:00 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I am still hopeful that someone on the list will be able to assist rectifying my problem ie. 1. rectifying the CD problem. & 2. getting rid of the Menu bar "eject "icon To get rid of the eject icon, Hold down the command (app

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Hi Ronda, not able to click CD/DVD drive, only thing on the left side is my Hard drive. Did the Terminal advice, but still nothing happened. Thanks for all your input.. Bill On 03/05/2008, at 5:48 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, In Disk Utility, click the CD/DVD drive on the left side, an

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Hi Bill, In Disk Utility, click the CD/DVD drive on the left side, and you should be able to click the Eject button in the top part of the window. If that's not possible try this: Start Terminal (in Applications/Utilities) In Terminal, enter "drutil tray eject" (without the " ") The CD shoul

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Thanks Jane for your input, just been trying your suggestion- negative I'm afraid Thanks Ronda, tried that, all disk utility shows is my Hard drive & " New Image " & " Info " the rest are greyed out. There is no Disk Icon showing on the desktop or anywhere else that I can see. I've had a

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Hi Bill, Have you tried using Disk Utility to see if you can Mount then Eject the CD/DVD? Cheers, Ronni On 03/05/2008, at 1:31 PM, Bill Cole wrote: Thanks Kyle, have tried 51008 & 106752, still no effect Thanks Bob for your offer, I am certainly concidering your offer , I've a few more

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Thanks Kyle, have tried 51008 & 106752, still no effect Thanks Bob for your offer, I am certainly concidering your offer , I've a few more ideas to try out from others, and it is a Imac G5, 20" screen, 1.8ghz. bought 29 Oct 2004...been a perfect machine other than this ! I'm thinkin

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Hi Bill Just quickly make sure you've tried everything written here And if you have tried everything written here move onto this is Try this more than once if it doesn't work the first

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Hi Bill > 2. getting rid of the Menu bar "eject "icon This is easy to accomplish Just hold down the command key and drag it out of the menu bar > 1. rectifying the CD problem. I know there's a bunch of terminal commands That you can do to eject the CD As I am not sure how to do this I will h

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From: Reg Whitely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 1 May 2008 10:19:46 PM To: "WAMUG Mailing List" Subject: Re: Unable to eject/insert CD Dear Bill and WAMUGgers Not pretty but it's advice that has worked for me, from the techie of a 1:1 laptop for kids program (MacBooks). If

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Dear Bill and WAMUGgers Not pretty but it's advice that has worked for me, from the techie of a 1:1 laptop for kids program (MacBooks). If the computer goes through the actions of attempting to eject, then reloading the disk again, it is possible that the case is bent at the CD slot. Use

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Hi Bill, I think it is possible for a slot load drive to end up half way open, half way closed. I think this happened to me once, and I used a skewer to nudge a plastic lever that prompted the drive complete either its insert action or its eject action (at which point it figured out there was no d

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..or hold the eject button for ~5sec that causes an emergency eject James On 01/05/2008, at 16:41, Bill Cole wrote: Hi everyone, Have G5, 10.4.11, 1.8Ghz, 768 mb Ram, I am unable to insert a CD into the side slot, There is no indication on the desk top that one is inserted, ( I am not ab

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Hi Bill Hold the mouse button in on start-up Kyle On 5/1/08, Bill Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > Have G5, 10.4.11, 1.8Ghz, 768 mb Ram, I am unable to > insert a CD into the side slot, There is no indication on the desk top that > one is inserted, ( I a

Unable to eject/insert CD

Hi everyone, Have G5, 10.4.11, 1.8Ghz, 768 mb Ram, I am unable to insert a CD into the side slot, There is no indication on the desk top that one is inserted, ( I am not absolutley convinced that there is a disk in there! ) but I guess there must be one in ! ) I have done all the sug