superdrive won't eject CD

Your post was the only one that helped me. I tried everything option that was mentioned and finally, the turning it upside down helped. I am not sure why that worked but it did. Thank you!!

Thanks jhawkmatt, almost 3 years later and your solution still works. Saved my butt! Sad that this is still an issue with SuperDrives.

Open Disk Utility and select the CD/DVD. Hit eject from the top of the window

This just saved me a trip to best buy. it worked!

This just happened to me. IT IS NOT YOUR SUPERDRIVE!!! I just copied data to 30 DVD's perfectly, and ran in to a bad disk that wouldn't eject. After spending 1/2 a day trying to figure it out I finally did!!! (command E, power down, turn superdrive upside down, almost used the screwdriver suggestion (LOL)) Hope this helps someone and will save you lot of time!!! On Macbook Air...Open up FINDER - on the top menu bar go to GO - Scroll down to UTILITIES - double click - DISK UTILITY - wait for Superdrive to respond - HIGHLIGHT on the left of the scree the CD - Click EJECT - Good luck! 😁

Hi, never to late to help other.

i tried and it work. thanks again for sharing.

I'm so glad I stumbled upon this. I was just trying to burn a CD and then when it came to ejecting it, nothing was happening. I tried everything and then I found this comment. I was a bit sceptical at first thinking why was the volume key going to eject my disk but it really did work!!!

This happened to me and NONE of the answers here helped. I finally called Apple and was told to turn the laptop off, leave the superdrive plugged into it, turn the laptop back on and - at the same time - left click on the finger pad. Voila! it popped out.

I just had this happen to me and thought I was going to have to make a trip to the Apple store. If you open iTunes and hold down the command button an the E key, the DVD will eject.

Ok I figured it out. If you have a stuck cd, get the external cd drive and plug it into a pc. Let it download, then eject the cd

Thank you! This worked like magic!

thank you so much for this info. I have spent hours trying to eject this $%^%$ disc. Your instructions ejected it in seconds. Well done.

Similar issue. I have iMac 21 inch with Apple external CD drive plugged into USB. CD wouldn't eject. UPSIDE down didn't work. Function and F12 while turning off and Function and F12 turning back on worked.

THANK YOU! It wouldn't eject upside, right side up or sideways! BUT your code worked! Thank you, thank you , thank you!

Thank you so much! This worked perfectly! 🙂