So I stuck my SD card in my Superdrive slot.

wangkom · May 31, 2011

blakediamond said:
Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.

After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).

I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.

Thanks

Ever heard of tweezers? Just kidding. Kinda funny though that you'd come here to announce your shameful act, hehe.

Meever · Jun 1, 2011

Yeah, drunken stupidity aside those two holes are awfully close to each other.....

But ascetically there's no other place to really put it.

bushman4 · Jun 1, 2011

Meever said:
Yeah, drunken stupidity aside those two holes are awfully close to each other.....

But ascetically there's no other place to really put it.

That may be true, However Apple could have put a safety flap on the DVD drive.

ravenvii · Jun 1, 2011

Wow, a year-old thread of SD-cards-in-Superdrive-slots...

Maybe Apple should put the SD slot on the *other* side of the iMac?

shotts56 · Jun 2, 2011

Meever said:
Yeah, drunken stupidity aside those two holes are awfully close to each other.....

Being drunk is no excuse for putting something in the wrong hole, even although they are awfully close to each other.

So says my wife.

Roheryn · Jun 12, 2011

thesquish said:
Easy solution- Fold a piece of paper in half
Slide the folded edge into the upper part of the CD slot
Gently slide the paper down to the bottom of the slot
Gently pull out the paper
Your SD card should now be inside the paper! And a smile of relief on your face!
It worked for me first attempt.
Good luck silly

I did this yesterday and immediately searched the forums here. Your solution worked perfectly and I had my SD card back 90 seconds later. Many thanks !
I'm a 22 year Mac user and have never done this before. Just carelessness, I guess...

manook · Jun 12, 2011

what i usually do is use a paper 3d glasses

Herdfan · Jun 12, 2011

Jiten said:
I guess its basically like the "Uh oh I spilled my coke on my Macbook" in the portable forums. It happens.

On any keyboard for that matter. We had one girl at work that was so bad about it, we got Pepsi to replace the "can" machine with a "bottle" machine.

I just want to know what was on the pics that having to see them immediately while intoxicated was necessary.

williamli · Jun 13, 2011

for anyone with this problem, here is how I fixed mine.. just cut a useless CD twice and boom... you got the tool!

alaistair · Jul 1, 2011

So I stuck my SD card in my Superdrive slot.

I honestly thought doing this sort of thing was reserved for idiots.... until this morning when putting SD card in myself whilst just checking that Adobe lightroom was loading and managed to slot SD card straight in Superdrive slot.

Feeling of complete stupidity then came over me as I realised what i'd done.

My method of extracting said SD card was as follows:

1. Unplug everything
2. Turn iMac on side and give it a light shake to get SD card as close to entrance as possible
3. Get internal part of biro and ferret around in Superdrive slot carefully to determine location of SD card.
4. Eek SD card so it is just sticking back out of Superdrive
5. Get creditcard to then slide behind SD card to remove it fully.
6. Turn machine back on
7. Logon to this forum and share with world how stupid i've been.

Alaistair

noodles187 · Aug 29, 2011

alaistair said:
I honestly thought doing this sort of thing was reserved for idiots.... until this morning when putting SD card in myself whilst just checking that Adobe lightroom was loading and managed to slot SD card straight in Superdrive slot.

Feeling of complete stupidity then came over me as I realised what i'd done.

My method of extracting said SD card was as follows:

1. Unplug everything
2. Turn iMac on side and give it a light shake to get SD card as close to entrance as possible
3. Get internal part of biro and ferret around in Superdrive slot carefully to determine location of SD card.
4. Eek SD card so it is just sticking back out of Superdrive
5. Get creditcard to then slide behind SD card to remove it fully.
6. Turn machine back on
7. Logon to this forum and share with world how stupid i've been.

Alaistair

Had to confess that i also fell in the ranks of STUPIDS this morning and followed your step and the cut CD step and finally got my SD card out.

Montymitch · Aug 29, 2011

Done it. I too thought that I was above all this foolishness, butin it went. Fortunately for me I caught myself and didn't slam it all the way in, so I was able to fish it out with relative ease.

err404 · Aug 30, 2011

As a note, don't put mini cd's in there either. I had a printer that came with Mac software on a 3" cd a few years ago. The motor pulled it in but the drive didn't actually sense the disc, so it wouldn't read or eject the disc.

Spike88 · Aug 30, 2011

alaistair said:
....

My method of extracting said SD card was as follows:

1. Unplug everything
2. Turn iMac on side and give it a light shake to get SD card as close to entrance as possible
3. Get internal part of biro and ferret around in Superdrive slot carefully to determine location of SD card.
4. Eek SD card so it is just sticking back out of Superdrive
5. Get creditcard to then slide behind SD card to remove it fully.
6. Turn machine back on
7. Don't do it again!!!!!

Alaistair

Approx 5 weeks ago, my 14 year old daughter did the same thing. She pushed the SD card "all the way in" and to her surprise, it didn't stop. It did go "all the way in". Then, she realized that she accidentally pushed it into the CD/DVD slot - instead of the SD slot (which is slightly lower). For me, the above steps worked. I also used tweezers - to grab is one corner and pull back out.

And yes, it can happen to anyone. Especially when they have their mind on something else....

Note to iMac box designers.... One should have the CD/DVD drive on one side and the SD slot on the opposite side. Or as a minimum, put more distance between both slots. re: Much more then its current distance.

Sankersizzle · Aug 30, 2011

daxomni said:
Every intoxicated person I ever knew first had to make a decision to drink when they were still sober, which would seem to imply that you're not good at thinking straight with or without alcohol in your system.

Uptight 60 year old man who's never had any fun in his life detected.

Acorn · Aug 31, 2011

I have read of alot of people trying to put mini disks in the dvd slot and having them fall inside. i never realized how close the sd slot was to the dvd slot though.

88 King · Aug 31, 2011

I've done this as well, late night, tired, was not looking, lucky got it out by doing a 90 degree turn and shake.

Here is my solution to stop this happen again. I've some micro SD to SD card adapters, so i simply have one of them in the SD slot all the time. This way, I'll have to remove it before insert a another SD card, which stop the habit of inset the card without looking and end up slot it into the DVD drive.

lc25 · Aug 31, 2011

Brilliant

shotts56 said:
Being drunk is no excuse for putting something in the wrong hole, even although they are awfully close to each other.

So says my wife.

reputationZed · Aug 31, 2011

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Party on Garth. As far as bone head intoxicated moves go sticking a SD card in the SuperDrive ain't that bad. Deciding it would be a good idea to take your iMac apart while intoxicated, "I can fix it", would be a different story. Good to hear you got everything sorted out.

reputationZed · Aug 31, 2011