CD stuck in PowerBook, Help!

[snooziums]

Okay, so I inserted a brand new blank CD into my new 12" PowerBook (with the combo drive), and the CD icon does not show up. The CD drive does spin up for a short while, however nothing happens.

Worse yet, I cannot eject it. I have tried pressing the "eject" button, pressing and holding down the trackpad button at startup, and none of those work!

I cannot get this darn CD out of the PowerBook for the life of me! Help!

[cluthz]

Originally Posted by snooziums

Okay, so I inserted a brand new blank CD into my new 12" PowerBook (with the combo drive), and the CD icon does not show up. The CD drive does spin up for a short while, however nothing happens.

Worse yet, I cannot eject it. I have tried pressing the "eject" button, pressing and holding down the trackpad button at startup, and none of those work!

I cannot get this darn CD out of the PowerBook for the life of me! Help!

Can you see the CD in Disk Utility? ( /Applications/Utilities/)
Try to mount it there or eject it from there..

[slughead]

try holding down the mouse button on startup

[Counterfit]

Originally Posted by slughead

try holding down the mouse button on startup

Yay for reading!

Originally Posted by snooziums

Worse yet, I cannot eject it. I have tried pressing the "eject" button, pressing and holding down the trackpad button at startup, and none of those work!

There might be a little hole to one side of the drive's slot (that sounds so dirty... ) for you to insert an Almighty Paperclip. I'm not sure if it's actually there on the new PB's though, as I haven't found it yet on mine

[Timelessblur]

Originally Posted by Counterfit

Yay for reading!

There might be a little hole to one side of the drive's slot (that sounds so dirty... ) for you to insert an Almighty Paperclip. I'm not sure if it's actually there on the new PB's though, as I haven't found it yet on mine

If it not there I would say it was an extermly stupid move on apple's part and a very dumb idea. It is always a very good idea to have a mechincal and manual fail safe for things like CD drives. Sometimes they just get stuck and the only way to get them out is with the almighty paperclip. That and it comes in handy when the power is dead and you want the disk out of the computer

[Kingsnapped]

Try pushing iTunes' eject button?


btw, no paperclip hole on the powerbook. Maybe it's on the edge, inside the drive slot.

[knome]

Originally Posted by Counterfit

Yay for reading!

There might be a little hole to one side of the drive's slot (that sounds so dirty... ) for you to insert an Almighty Paperclip. I'm not sure if it's actually there on the new PB's though, as I haven't found it yet on mine

In fact there is one of those. It should be on the left edge of the where you insert the cd. Just stick a paper clip in there and fish around but don't press to hard.

[reykjavik]

Originally Posted by snooziums

Okay, so I inserted a brand new blank CD into my new 12" PowerBook (with the combo drive), and the CD icon does not show up. The CD drive does spin up for a short while, however nothing happens.

Worse yet, I cannot eject it. I have tried pressing the "eject" button, pressing and holding down the trackpad button at startup, and none of those work!

I cannot get this darn CD out of the PowerBook for the life of me! Help!

This happened to me once when I put in a warped bootleg dvd. I went to a tech support guy in Singapore (I was there at the time) and he told me to reboot into some type of terminal unix thing, I cant remember what he told me to do (i do remember i held down a couple of letters on reboot) and once in there I typed "eject" and it did a forcefull eject. That right off the bat didnt work, but when I did it again along with a thrust downwards of my laptop (why not have gravity help out a bit) the disc came out. So my point is, try rebooting while holding down the eject button, since im sure this does the same thing as that guy did for me, but while holding it down make a couple of thursting motions with the laptop to try to make the disc fly out. Believe it or not it works...

[OldManJimbo]

Same thing happened to me about a week into ownership of a new Rev2. I can't rememeber how (or if) I got the CD out, but I did get a new drive. Take it back your retailer ASAP - and call AppleCare before you take it in.

[Abstract]

Put your laptop to sleep, close the lid, and drop it on your bed from a good height a few times.

Yeah, maybe the CD placement in the drive has to get sorted.

[PBGPowerbook]

I have a disc (best of the velvet underground) stuck in my rev a 12 in Pbook for about 3 months now. These do not help: itunes eject, eject button, mousedown on startup, dragging cd to trash, telling eject in open firmware, disk utility eject. I am waiting for a break in school where i can afford to be without my computer for a bit...it sucks.

[FuzzyBallz]

Take the PB apart, take the optical drive out, take that apart, take disc out. If you broke the drive during the process, bring it to the Apple Store and utilize the Apple warranty. If you lose a couple screws or forgot which part goes where during reassembly of optical drive, use superglue.

[OldManJimbo]

Snooziums - what ever became of this issue? Did yoiu ever get your CD to eject? Have they replaced the optical drive?

[snooziums]

I tried everything. Open firmware, iTunes eject, sleep and eject, and nothing worked. I tried everything.

Then I tried something risky. I inserted a non-sharp butter knife into the drive, pressed up on the handle, thus pressing down on the CD. The CD was forced to stop spinning. When I let up on the knife and the CD started to spin once again, the computer ejected it.

[Phat_Pat]

Originally Posted by snooziums

I tried everything. Open firmware, iTunes eject, sleep and eject, and nothing worked. I tried everything.

Then I tried something risky. I inserted a non-sharp butter knife into the drive, pressed up on the handle, thus pressing down on the CD. The CD was forced to stop spinning. When I let up on the knife and the CD started to spin once again, the computer ejected it.

now thats the american way! shoving a metal object into an electric appliance while its in use! Brilliant!

no but seriously nice job... i would of never done that.... that took guts my friend....

let's just hope it doesn't happen again.....

[grmyers]

OK, I had the same thing happen. NOTHING WORKED. I mean, I dropped it from a high height, and nothing happened.

However...

I am a training to be a surgeon, so I got out some Adson pickups (tweezers) and a small needle driver (not-sharp scissor-like holdy things). Open the felt with by holding the needle driver open (as in a fascial dissection) and then grab the CD with the Adsons. Yank.

Worked for me!

[Vasky]

Is it just me or do slot drives represent the epitome of Apple placing style over functionality? How ugly would a tray be? Not very.

[nice marmot.]

To get a disk out that isn't read by the finder without rebooting:

1. Go to your applications > utilities folder and open the terminal app

2. In a terminal window type:

drutil tray eject

that should eject the disk.

3. xtra credit: type in the terminal:

man drutil

to find other uses of the utility