Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

So I stuck my SD card in my Superdrive slot.

dave92029 said:
I was using my 8 gb SD card to transfer photos from my iMac to my PC and I sliped the SD card into the DVD slot which is immediately above the SD slot! :eek:

How can I get the SD card out of the DVD slot?

Do I need to take the iMac to the Apple store and will they charge me to do this or is this under warranty (the iMac is one month old)? :apple:

Thanks
Click to expand...



Have you tried repairing permissions yet?
 
Kar98 said:
Have you tried repairing permissions yet?
Click to expand...

If that doesn't work, you can use Time Machine to go back to before you stuck your SD memory card in the DVD slot and then redo it, this time actually looking at what you're doing and not arbitrarily jamming it into the first hole you find on the side of your computer.
 
someone metioned in another post a repair bill of around £200 for retrieving the sd card out of the superdrive as they have to take apart the whole imac
 
Thanks for all your suggestions and support

Thank you to all that made suggestions and gave me their support.

I placed a towel on my desk, unpluged everything, turned the iMac on it's side, gently placed a thin knife in the DVD drive slot and nudged the SD memory card to show itself. :)

Everything is working again. :D

I admire Apple's design of the iMac, BUT placing the DVD slot and the SD memory slot on the same side is really DUMB! IMHO. Since the slots are on the side , we find ourselves blindly inserting the DVD and SD memory into their respective slots. The danger is that SD memory cards fit into the DVD slot very easily, Therefore that slot should be on the other side of the iMac. :apple::rolleyes::apple:
 
Now for someone mistakingly inserting a DVD into the SD slot, THAT would be something :D
 
dave92029 said:
I admire Apple's design of the iMac, BUT placing the DVD slot and the SD memory slot on the same side is really DUMB! IMHO. Since the slots are on the side , we find ourselves blindly inserting the DVD and SD memory into their respective slots. The danger is that SD memory cards fit into the DVD slot very easily, Therefore that slot should be on the other side of the iMac. :apple::rolleyes::apple:
Click to expand...

agreed. if not on the other side then at least space them out
 
spencers said:
Do people not freaking look before sliding something into a slot nowadays? :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

Have you seen how gigantic these machines are? It's a bad design flaw if the user needs to get up from their chair and walk around the desk to look at the slots on the side just to put an SD card in.
 
slicecom said:
By your logic, a well designed iMac would have all its ports on the front.

No thanks.
Click to expand...

No. By my logic I wouldn't have two ports where you slide things in next to each other and feel the exact same. You wouldn't run into this issue if the ports were on opposite sides, or if the card reader were on the underside of the iMac (where it should be, imho).
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
No. By my logic I wouldn't have two ports where you slide things in next to each other and feel the exact same. You wouldn't run into this issue if the ports were on opposite sides, or if the card reader were on the underside of the iMac (where it should be, imho).
Click to expand...

I agree that the SD slot should be on the underside. I also think a few USB ports would be nice
 
The love of my life has done the same to my i7 last week.

I now have a 4gb SD card deep inside my DVD drive so can't use my DVD drive or camera. Grrr....

I'm going to bite the bullet and do a teardown. Open up the beast and take the DVD drive out. Whilst there will pop in an SSD into it's place and get an Air Superdrive to use when needed.

Grrrr..... still love her though
 
Sir Cecil said:
It's all a bit like complaining a keyboard's "3" key is too close to the "4" key, and that one might be pressed in error.
Click to expand...

LOL! That's just way too funny. :D May I suggest though that it may be way easier to relocate an SD card slot as compared to everyone getting used to a new type of keyboard? So no...I don't think those examples compare at all. But you really did make me laugh. :)
 
Use your brains, guys!

So I did this silly thing too, stucking the card in the wrong slot. I believe so many other people will do it because the slots are easy to confound when you're doing things automatically.

After reading the few posts where people really are trying to help, I created this little instrument shown in the attached picture. It was cut from a soft plastic spatula (for painting), which is as thick as the card. With a little help from my man, the card came out easily, the cd drive is working perfectly and so is the card.

Some of you guys spend such a lot of testosterone in silly disputes and jokes... should do like us women and use your brains instead. Mistakes are done for us to learn from them.

PS: I mixed the toenail colour myself, too.:p
 

Attachments

  • IMG_5621.JPG
    IMG_5621.JPG
    176.8 KB · Views: 344
Although I have never gotten an SD card stuck in my Superdrive slot, I also consider the close proximity of these two slots (less that an inch) to be a design flaw. It would cost Apple little or nothing to simply move the SD card slot to the other side of the iMac.
 
Troy2000 said:
Although I have never gotten an SD card stuck in my Superdrive slot, I also consider the close proximity of these two slots (less that an inch) to be a design flaw. It would cost Apple little or nothing to simply move the SD card slot to the other side of the iMac.
Click to expand...

Are you slow ?

How could it be a design flaw?
Both the SD Slot & SuperDrive seem to function just fine, I seem to have no problem when I use the SD Slot & SuperDrive as directed in my owners manual.

The flaw was the moron between the screen and the chair.
 
First time I stuck an SD card in the iMac it went in the superdrive slot. Easy to do it you are facing the front. Got it out easily enough though.
 
I agree with both sides in this mini-dispute. Apple could've done better... but, for Christ's sake, be alert to the risk and look where you're going.

Feel from the bottom up (that's what she said...! Thought I'd get that in there now), and the first slot you come across is the one you want (that's what she said...! And I'm done).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back