Hello everyone,
I'm having fairly major problems with the superdrive on my Macbook Pro I bought in Feb '06. Here's the story:
I burnt off a CD of work (all fine) and removed it. I had to do another CD, so I went to put a new blank CD in there. The Superdrive didn't grab and pull it however, and after pushing it all the way in
rolleyes it's now stuck. The eject button flashes up the eject symbol on the screen, however there's absolutely no mechanical noises as if the drive is trying to push a disc out. It almost feels like there's no CD in there.
System Profiler and Disk Utility also report that the drive is there and working fine, but they say there is no media inserted. Unfortunately I know there is (thanks to my own idiocy) and I'm wondering how best to proceed? I have tried doing all the old tricks of starting up holding the mouse button etc, but I'm nervous about jamming things in the slot to try and yank it out as some websites have suggested.
I do have AppleCare, so I can go into a store and get it looked at, but I have an essay to write on it this weekend, and losing my computer for a few days would be a disaster.
Any thoughts? Thanks for reading
I'm having fairly major problems with the superdrive on my Macbook Pro I bought in Feb '06. Here's the story:
I burnt off a CD of work (all fine) and removed it. I had to do another CD, so I went to put a new blank CD in there. The Superdrive didn't grab and pull it however, and after pushing it all the way in
rolleyes it's now stuck. The eject button flashes up the eject symbol on the screen, however there's absolutely no mechanical noises as if the drive is trying to push a disc out. It almost feels like there's no CD in there.System Profiler and Disk Utility also report that the drive is there and working fine, but they say there is no media inserted. Unfortunately I know there is (thanks to my own idiocy) and I'm wondering how best to proceed? I have tried doing all the old tricks of starting up holding the mouse button etc, but I'm nervous about jamming things in the slot to try and yank it out as some websites have suggested.
I do have AppleCare, so I can go into a store and get it looked at, but I have an essay to write on it this weekend, and losing my computer for a few days would be a disaster.
Any thoughts? Thanks for reading