Macbook won't eject CD

[Haarball]

Go here for part 1 of my latest problems.

I've now replaced my broken HD with a new one, but as was the case before I made the change, I can't eject the CD that's in the drive. It's as if the drive doesn't react to my pressing the eject button. Is there any other way of ejecting it? Since the HD is brand new, there's of course no OS on it. Is my only chance of getting it out putting my HD in another Macbook, installing OSX, putting it back into my Macbook and then hoping that ejecting it from within the OS will work?

Cheers.

 

[hanschien]

Go here for part 1 of my latest problems.

I've now replaced my broken HD with a new one, but as was the case before I made the change, I can't eject the CD that's in the drive. It's as if the drive doesn't react to my pressing the eject button. Is there any other way of ejecting it? Since the HD is brand new, there's of course no OS on it. Is my only chance of getting it out putting my HD in another Macbook, installing OSX, putting it back into my Macbook and then hoping that ejecting it from within the OS will work?

Cheers.

Restart the MacBook and hold down the trackpad button.

 

[Killyp]

Hold down the trackpad button as the machine is starting up.

Edit: got there before me hanschien!

Another one you could try relies on another Mac computer, but if you connect both via a Firewire lead, you should be able to boot one machine up in 'target disk mode', and boot the MacBook off the other machine. That would at least allow you to get into OS X, but what you could do from there onwards I'm not sure...