Minidisc stuck in MacBook Pro

haha...hah... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... I'm sorry it's just HAHAHAHHAHA

dude. I'm actually impressed you could get that into the 3mm opening of the superdrive.

Now. To get it out? Try getting two very small, long, and sturdy pieces of metal and try to pull it out from both sides at the same time. If you take a paperclip and make it into a long L shape, you may be able to pull the minidisc out by getting the bent part of the paperclip behind it. I had luck doing this to get a miniCD out of the slot loading drive once.

I really doubt he got a Sony MiniDisc in the slot since a MiniDisk is about 1/4" think and nobody is going to think a CD/DVD drive sudenly takes MiniDiscs.

It is a "mini" disc and he can try using tools but I am not a big advocate of sticking long sturdy pieces of metal in the case as he may damage the drive and other components.

Applecare/Apple Store, pay for them to open it and take your lumps is a far better idea.

Try holding your MBP upside down (keyboard facing down), and hit the eject key. This has worked for others. And you are NOT the first one to make this mistake.

You can also try holding your MBP to either side (tilted) and hitting the eject button as well.

Hmm...

You have few choices.

1. Take the machine into a Apple Store and get charged for having the CD disc removed.

2. Play around with the machine, shake it, stick things into the slot etc and pray!

or

3. Take the top of yourself. There are guides online for users to upgrade the parts that apple suggest you don't.

(e.g. http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/)

Now.. if your careful with a precision screw driver and torx, you could remove all the screws and sort your machine out. But damaging the screws or anything inside will ultimately void your warranty and possibly kill your machine.


Personally I'd take option 2 first... then find out how much it might cost.. and at a last resort, DIY.


Keep us posted.

Easy solution. Saw this a few times at my old college.

Get a business card, put tape on one side.. stick it in with the tape down... press eject.. grab your disk.. enjoy.

Just wanted to report another case of successful minidisc extraction. Unaware that the MacBook can't accommodate the 8 mm minidisc from our camcorder, my daughter pushed one in the slot. After reading this post, I put some double-sided tape on a business card and gently pushed it into the slot. After fishing around in there -- carefully! -- for about 20 seconds, the minidisc came out! Give it a try!

I got a mini disc stuck in there today (let's just say I learned my lesson). I couldn't even feel it in there. I thought I would have to bring it in to be repaired, but nope, I got it out. I put it the Macbook on its side and shook it out :P

And no, not a mini disc, but a mini-cd rather.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I have only had my new MacBook for a few days. I had visions of destroying the inner-workings with a "sharp object". I put some tape on a card and out it came!

me too..
I stupidly inserted a 2.5" cd into my macbook pro drive.. I learned too late that that's a no-no..
(why oh why is there no cautions about not doing this ??) anyway..
So I found this thread and tried taping a super sticky postit note (sticky side out) to a plastic target gift card.. Inserted the card, wiggled it a bit and pulled it out.. w/ the dumb cd on it !! first go.. Thanks to the previous writers.. !!
and to 3M for yet another use for postits.. Everything works fine and no trips to the mac store.. ..
signed.. "Too soon olt.. too late schmart" !!

Somewhere, buried in tons of dos and don'ts is the warning that the drive only works with standard sized disks, but you are correct in that it is not obvious that the small CD would be taboo. Fortunately they "fall" out quite easily, but I would hate to think what would happen to a "thick" small CD, knowing that even the "thick" normal CDs and DVDs occasionally get stuck in the apple drive.

Man this is incredibly ingenious. Thanks for the help, I got my minidisc out with in two tries. Went to the applestore and I was at the verge of Paying $130/hr in order to get it fixed. You saved me plenty of money and time, thank you very much.

Great Idea! Apple really needs to provide a better notification about this issue. I used a Kroger card instead of a business card...didn't even need to push eject.