Remove CD drive from old MacBook Pro

jjthom wrote:

Hi, I want to remove the CD drive from my old MacBook Pro. There's a disk in there that causes the laptop to continually attempt to eject it. Is there an easy way to just remove it and not replace it? Thanks!

There are many ways to try and eject without removing the super drive...have you tried them all

-dragging and dropping the icon for the CD into your trashcan

- Restart the computer and after the chime (older computers) press and hold down the left mouse button until the disc ejects.

- Press the Eject/Esc button on your keyboard.

- Click on the Eject button in the menubar, Finder>File>Eject

- Press Command E

- Open the Terminal application in your Applications/Utilities folder. copy & paste the following:

/usr/bin/drutil eject

If all this fails then try this:

- Boot the computer into single user mode—hold down Command S through the boot process— at the prompt copy & paste:

/usr/bin/drutil eject 

Restart the computer enter reboot at the prompt or shutdown

- restarting hold down the trackpad button