The CD in drive is not showing up on desktop or in finder

Some blank CDs may simply be unrecognized and the optical drive does not know anything is there.
I had that happen once. Usually a bad blank is auto-ejected, but it's possible that an occasional one is "invisible" which seems to be your case.
After you get it out, try a different brand of blank CDs.

To eject the CD, reboot and hold down the trackpad bar or the left mouse button during the boot. That usually ejects the CD.

Hi tanv

Click on your desktop or open a Finder window, then first go to: *Finder > Preferences > General* and make sure that all the boxes for *Show these items on the Desktop:* are checked. Then next go to: *Finder > Preferences > Sidebar* and make sure that the box for *CD's DVD's and iPods* is checked.

In both case's if the preferences boxes are already checked, uncheck and recheck then to rewrite the saved preferences settings.

Dennis

another tip:

open the application "DVD Player"

in preferences UNcheck "When disk is inserted...start playing disk"


also, disk utility will usually be able to find/mount and eject hidden dvd/cd's

Welcome to Apple Discussions:
Check the settings in CDs & DVDs in System Preferences about what to do when you insert a blank CDs and DVDs. You may have it set to Ignore.

Try restarting and holding down the mouse button (or trackpad button if it's a MacBook) throughout the startup process. This will usually eject a disk.

Bob N.

Try running the command from the Terminal

drutil eject

Glad to help. Thanks for the "Solved" star.

Bob N.

Hi den.thed - Your tip re: finder preferences, sidebar items was a HUGE help today. IT helped me find a USB flash drive that mysteeriously disappeared from Finder even though it showed up in "About this Mac" and in Disk Utility. Thanks!

I am also suffering from this. It is happening with every account (four) on the computer. I can't get the CD out, either. I've tried re-setting the Finder prefs re: CDs and DVDs, and the Sys Prefs re: what to do with a blank disk. The disk does not come out upon restart and holding the mouse button.

This is relatively recent, past four months or so, and it seems to be it's been since I installed 10.5.7.

Any ideas above and beyond what is in this thread? I'd love it to be a software problem and not have to take this thing in for replacing a drive.

Thanks tons,
Carlos Alden

Hi there,

I have just had the mysteriously not ejecting CD hapen to me also. In reading the threads I see that you were able to provide the solution below.

Would you be able to expand on it a little for me though as I am not sure how to 'run the command from the terminal'....I am not an experienced user.

Thanks