Disk stuck in optical drive - MBP

[Bigsy]

Hi,

This is pretty urgent. I've got a late 2008 15 inch MBP (the one with the express card reader) and I put in a DVD and it wouldn't read it. As it didn't read it, I can't eject it, and this is pretty bad so if anyone could help me ASAP it would be much appreciated! thanks

Bigsy

 

[jdechko]

Have you tried restarting the computer and holding down the mouse button? Also, you didn't specify, but it was a full-sized (12 cm) disc, correct?

 

[electroshock]

Couple things to try:

Hold down the mouse button at power-on (if you've got a two or three button mouse, use the left mouse button, I think)

Press and hold down the eject button on the keyboard and see if it's persuaded to spit out the DVD

In Terminal.app, type: drutil eject

 

[Bigsy]

Thanks!!

I tried drutil eject and it worked, but what's more worrying is my MBP now wont read any dvds... this has only happened since I upgraded to 10.6.1 ( I upgraded straight away after the install.) I don;t know whats causing this problem, and these are dvds that worked with 10.5.8...

Anyone out there had the same problem/have a solution?

Cheers


EDIT: yes, it was a normal disk. I just put in a CD and it read that fine, I will try another DVD in a second.