Minidisc stuck in MacBook Pro

Wow! Thanks to everybody for their posts! The following method just worked for me:

Shake the MCP (slot side down), insert a business card with @ 1/2" of scotch tape hanging over the edge (sticky side down).

Viola - The disc emerged!

Hi, I also put a mini cd into my macbook and eventually got it out. However, my drive now has great difficulty reading most dvds. I hear it scanning the disc continuously until it just gives up. It didn't work at all until I put a cd in and ejected it repeatedly about 10 times hoping it would "align" itself and it seemed to have partially as it now reads and writes most cds but dvds seem to cause it extra trouble. Does anyone have any ideas on how to address this other than to buy a new drive? Thanks

Hola!

I just did the same mistake with my new mac. I got really angry, read the discussion, but the case was that I didn't have tape, so I decided that it is too much work to buy it right now.. I decided just to open the small "gates" of the CD drive with a normal-sized CD. You stick it just enough to stay there on its own. Then you turn the mac with the slot loading device pointing down and shake it once or twice. The big CD should fall out and the small one should appear also.

Just tried the tape (scotch, in my case, looped to make it double sided) on a business card routine. Worked for me. Thanks!

I also tried to use a install software via a mini disc... and now know that does not make a MacBook Pro happy. However, all I had to do was tip the MacBook so the loading slot was down and shake it fairly vigorously a few times... and out the nasty little disc peeked... enough for me to grab it. So how do we install software for some gizmo that provides drivers on these Lilliputian disks?

Thankyou thankyou thank you s so Kaneva!

Your trick worked for me too. I didn't have tape either and it was way too early to go buy some. While tipping the macbook so that the drive faces down, I inserted the CD, in my second try itself, both of them came out.

Thanks so much for the internet. Thank you guys for posting this up too.

You Know, You Gotta Be Careful When You Stick Things Into The SuperDrive Slot So That You Don't Break The LOADING Mechanism. Trying To Clean The Felt Dust Cover After Someone Spilled Sweet Coffee On My MacBook Left Me With A SuperDrive That Ejects And Plays DVD's Fine, But Its A Bugger Trying To Get The Disc To Actually Settle Into The Right Position - It Keeps Wanting To Eject The Disc . The Drive Just No Longer "*****" The Disc In Like It Used To....

Anyway, Here's Some Food For Thought - How Come The Slot Loader On The Nintendo Wii Can Take Full Size Discs Just As Easily As It Can Accept The Smaller Size Discs ? ( PLEASE!!! They Are NOT MINIDISCS!!!! )

Barney

Oh, thank you! I got a photo keychain that had software on one of those tiny discs, and stupid, stupid--I stuck it in. I panicked, then googled and found this thread. Had it out in 10 seconds!

Reading all of this stuff about people having issues with minidisks, Apple needs to talk with Nintendo about slot-loading disk drives. The Wii's Slot-Loading disk drive accepts both the full sized disks and the GameCube's mini disks without any adapter, you just put the disk in and in and it moves it around for a couple of seconds and then reads it.

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mdpeterman ... glad someone mentioned this.
I find it amazing that Nintendo can pull this off but Apple can't 😟

I wondered about that myself. The Wii uses a different loading mechanism. The Wii's drive accepts and pulls in the discs much sooner then the MacBook Pro drive. The Wii also pushes the discs out a lot further then the MacBook Pro. It was designed to work with the Game Cube games so it needed to make sure it could use the smaller discs.

now how to use them with out them getting stuck= http://www.amazon.com/Memorex-3-Inch-DVD-Adapter-3-Pak/dp/B000M52EW0

-matt

Thanks so much. The double-sided tape worked. I would not have thought of it.
Brook

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm surprised there are so few warnings about this. It seems it actually has to happen to you before you're even aware that such a problem exists. It also comes to me as a surprise that when you pay close to $2000(au) for a computer that doesn't support mini discs that are clearly still in circulation, the irreparable damage that is done to your drive isn't covered in the warranty.

it says not to use mini disks in the computers manual and the disks normally say on them or on their packaging not to use them in any drive but the tray style, what more warnings do you want (i dont mean that to sound rude at all). but seriously the drive and the disk have warnings for them each so that covers it on both sides of the hard ware.

-matt