How can I remove a mini-disc from DVD drive?

Hi
I know how to fix it my friend had he same experience i just hope you don't care to ruin your mini DVD (maybe i don't know if it will happen ) what my friend made was to disconnect the macbook take off batterie and with a clip grab the mini DVD he took it out and it all worked perfectly or just call apple or even best buy who made you that

I think you would better take your macbook to the apple shop. To fix it yourself is too ...... dangerous.

Not that this helps now... but for future reference:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88275

Do a search on the forum here... you are not the first person to do this. Most people have been able to successfully get the disk out without much work.

The other option is to let Best Buy get it out for you if they told you that you could use it in your MacBook.

Hello,
Here is a way to get the disk out without ruining the disk drive, or the disk.
Restart the Mac, when the grey screen comes, hold down the mouse button, this may take a while, but the disk should come out.

Hopefully this helps.
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-Joe Pourier

+*Here is a way to get the disk out without ruining the disk drive, or the disk.*+
+*Restart the Mac, when the grey screen comes, hold down the mouse button, this may take a while, but the disk should come out.*+

While this works fine for standard discs that won't eject, the problem here is with a mini-disc. The internal hardware of the drive simply does not support the smaller disc... so it basically "falls" into the drive. The eject mechanism can't eject it.

I have a solution.
disclaimer: This will only work IF you did not shove the mini dvd all the way inside of your imac which I doubt unless you shoved it in trying to get it out.

1. take something thin but linear, like a long match stick, incense stick toothpick, etc....
2. wrap double sided tape around it. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure it is double-sided as you want it to stick to the stick and the disc only. No need getting two things stuck in there. As a matter of fact just to be safe spindle the tape along the ENTIRE length of the stick... ok? whew ok lets move on to the scary part.
3. slowly and CAREFULLY press the taped stick through. Best to try sticking it at the TOP of where you guestimate the disc to be. Pull back out until the disc starts to peak and hopefully it will. DO NOT wiggle the toothpick around. Do not shove it violently or "fish around" like your reaching in a barrel. Use finesse.

Hopefully this will work for you as it worked for me. (My younger bro stuck a dmn mini disc in my imac not to long ago. With my woman's touch I got it out safe and secure without damaging my brand new $2900 machine. YAYYYY!!!

Buena Suerte!
~Fighter

This is what worked for me, my Macbook Pro, and a similarly ill-advised mini-disc insert:

Since pressing the eject button did nothing, mostly because the drive didn't recognize the disc as being inserted/present, I held my laptop up so that the disc drive opening faced the couch/floor & lightly shook (more of a shimmy) it side-to-side. The mini-disc just slid out, since nothing was really holding it in there other than gravity (while on a desk).

If that doesn't work, I would highly advise NOT doing anything invasive... just take it to the apple store & have them do take it out. Do you have warranty/service plan?

Best of luck