It was clearly a mechanical problem, and something inside was blocking the disk from ejecting properly. The Mac software was telling the drive to eject the disk, and I could hear it trying, but the disk would not come out of the drive slot. I have a mid-2010 Mac mini, and a new CD became stuck in the optical drive after importing its tracks to iTunes. It's almost always cheaper to buy a USB external if the internal breaks, so factor that into your calculation if you just want to yank out the stuck drive no matter the long term health of your optical drive. The cases where a light touch won't work is a signal that permanent damage to the device or the media is imminent. If you are gentle and can tickle the eject lever or gently guide the CD out, your chances of success are that much higher.
The mechanism is obviously stuck or obstructed if you hear it trying to eject when the software commands an eject.įorcing things more often causes additional damage rather than somehow inducing the internal eject mechanism to work again. You'll have better luck trying to trigger the eject lever deeper in the right hand side with something thinner than a ruler. If you are curious, iFixit does publish fairly good mac repair guides so you decide to pay someone or DIY. anything < 5 yrs old and not a Mac Pro) no longer have the "paper clip" levers so your best bet is to take it to a technician that is able to open the mac and safely retrieve the stuck media. Select one of the icons, then click on the right-arrow icon.īooting single-user - hold down the “ Command-S” keys (until the Apple logo appears) while powering on the laptop.Īdded : Hold down the mouse button while powering on - eject CD-ROM.Recent Apple portable optical drives (i.e. You’ll see an icon for each bootable device (hard disk, bootable CD, network, etc). hold down the “ T” key (until FW symbool appears) while powering on the laptop.Ĭhoosing boot device - hold down the Option key (until the Apple logo appears) while powering on the laptop. Insert a bootable CD as soon as the power is on.īooting as a FireWire “target” - connect the PowerBook to another FW-equipped system. I found many other keys that might work, but I haven’t verified anything except what’s listed below:īooting from CD - hold down the “ C” key (until the Apple logo appears) while powering on the laptop. I’ve checked all these on my system running Mac OSX 10.3 (Panther). This is a Bad Thing, but at least I learned how to do some cool things with my Mac at boot time. The disk on my PowerBook G4 is going bad.
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