Hey, I've got a iBook G4 with the classic problem of a CD-ROM stuck inside the Superdrive and it's not even a Mac software title, so I don't know that the original owner was up to! When the iBook is powered on, you can hear the drive spinning intermittently and I suspect, attempting to eject the drive. A couple of times, the CD-ROM actually mounted but it could not be ejected.
So far, I've tried the widely suggested tricks of turning the machine to one side, forcing an eject from Terminal, from boot up with the trackpad button, from Open Firmware, with cardboard but it just won't budge the noise from the drive constantly attempting to read/expel the CD-ROM quickly grates on your ears! Would a pair of long flathead tweezers be able to lock onto the disc and prize it out of the drive? The only other option is to dismantle the iBook and potentially also the optical drive itself.
Could the tweezers work or will I have to do things the hard way?
So far, I've tried the widely suggested tricks of turning the machine to one side, forcing an eject from Terminal, from boot up with the trackpad button, from Open Firmware, with cardboard but it just won't budge the noise from the drive constantly attempting to read/expel the CD-ROM quickly grates on your ears! Would a pair of long flathead tweezers be able to lock onto the disc and prize it out of the drive? The only other option is to dismantle the iBook and potentially also the optical drive itself.
Could the tweezers work or will I have to do things the hard way?