cd stuck and will NOT eject

Not even if you restart while holding mouse button down?.

Restart the computer and as soon as it powers up, hold the eject key on the keyboard. If this doesnt work then:

Go to Appliactions, Utilities, then Disk Utility. The CD should be displayed in the panel on the left hadn side, Select it and click the 'Eject' button at the top (or right click the CD and click eject)

Reece

Here is a compilation of suggestions that I have found for what to do when the CD won't eject (most didn't work for me).

1) If it is mounted, open Disk Utility (in Applications --> Utilities) and eject from there

2) Restart holding the eject button

3) Restart holding down mouse button

4) Restart holding down Command-Option-O-F to open Open Firmware. When it opens, type "eject CD" without quotes and then "mac-boot".

5) Open Terminal and type "drutil eject".

The only thing that worked for me was #5 with the computer physically laying screen down on my desk. It turned out that the paper label on my CD was peeled off at the corner and couldn't physical eject. It seems that positioning the computer differently must have enabled the ejection mechanism to work more effectively.

I have an Intel based iMac.

Yes! The finder does not open either. So, I can't go to applications/utilities and eject from there.

Why not do a hard reboot by holding down the power button or pulling the plug.

Never put a paper label CD in a slot loading drive. You were lucky you got it back out this time.

Yeah, that is something I learned the hard way. I didn't even look at the label until I took it out.

RJ I think you will have to take the machine to the Apple Store if steps 1-5 above do not work. Sorry.

Here are some other ideas i found:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2285

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2801

Reece

Same problem, here.

drutil eject

holding down at setup

ejecting from anywhere

paper clips

credit cards

F12

holding at angles

...all useless!

I have tried EVERYTHING posted on youtube and on here about getting the disk out short of taking off the actual shell and, very frustratingly, nothing works. I am loathe to take my heavy imac on public transport twice and paying just to get a cd out.

A lot of people seem to have this problem.

Thank you! I had this problem and the Disk Utilities eject worked.

I turned my macbook pro upside down when I restarted and held the eject key and it worked. I had the problem with my imac and fussed with it for an hour. Finally shut it down and started it the next day and it popped right out. It's worth fussing and even waiting a bit before heading to Apple repair .

had the same problem. probably still have the same problem. internal disc drive stopped ejecting discs recently; i can hear the whirring and nothing happens. thanks to areticles and comments in apple support, have been thru all the steps described above, including "terminal" which was new to me. nothing worked.

today had itunes open and tried "eject disc" from the pull down "controls" menu. the disc popped out, just as if i hadn't spent more than an hour trying the same things over and over (yes, irrational to try over and over) a few days ago.

i don't know why it worked today. am out of warranty and don't want to spend $220 to have drive replaced, even tho that now seems like a reasonable amount after looking at the DYI instructions on ifixit.com - it looks like a delicate operation and like you could easily mess up the computer innards.

found a clamshell design (made by lite on and sold by amazon) which appealed to me bc there's no eject mechanism to break, and from reading lots of comments it seems like that mechanical eject mechanism is what breaks, rather than software. contacted mft to verify that it's mac compatible. drive works to play dvds, which is all i've attempted so far, but isn't recognized/mounted/whatever bc it doesn't show up in finder. now need to to post a question about that.