Force eject a CD in a MacBook

The only other thing I can think for you to try after Kappy's advice would be to hold the MacBook upside down while pressing the eject button.....it might help postion the offending CD to be ejected........

Five ways to eject a stuck CD or DVD from the optical drive

Ejecting the stuck disc can usually be done in one of the following ways:

1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the left mouse button until the disc ejects.

2. Press the Eject button on your keyboard.

3. Click on the Eject button in the menubar.

4. Press COMMAND-E.

5. If none of the above work try this: Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following:

/usr/bin/drutil eject

If this fails then try this:

Boot the computer into Single-user Mode. At the prompt enter the same command as used above. To restart the computer enter "reboot" at the prompt without quotes.

I tried all these post and the only thing that worked was force quiet by holding down the power button and on reboot, held down the eject botton. I am sure these are not the best options, but I did not realize that I put a Karaoke disk in.

This same thing is happening to my Macbook. Whatever you do don't bother taking it to an Apple Store for help.

I dropped mine off for repair for this reason and the back battery eject lever is broken. I was their for 1 hr and the tech had my computer out back for 45 minutes before they let me go.

They said it would take 1 wk to replace the optic driver and repair switch. I bought a back up drive so they could back it up because they could not promise data would not be lost. They said this would add 1 day to the repair.

They called me yesterday to say they found RUST inside my computer (which has never been wet). So they would need to send it out and have ALL OF THE COMPONENTS of my computer tested. And anything they deemed not working would need to be replaced. Now the ONLY thing not working in my computer is the eject on the CD/DVD player. I asked them to email the pictures of this as I was at work. They refused. They said legally they could not email me pictures of what is going on in my computer. They had my computer for 4 days and now wanted to send it somewhere to an "Apple repair center". They know this is a work computer that I use daily at work.

I went to pick it up because the whole thing seems fishy to me. They said somewhere else may be able to just replace the Optic Driver without sending it out,etc. They again refused to give me pictures about what they were talking about. We will show you on our Ipad only. The manager tried to give me her business card and when I did not want it got irritated and annoyed. I'm not sure what her business card was going to do for the situation.

DO NOT TAKE YOU REPAIRS TO THE APPLE STORE. They will try everything they can to complicate anything going on! To top it off they opened the computer and were trying to start the repair.

The back up drive I bought in their store was NEVER opened. They opened it up without backing up my data! And there was dirt all over my screen when I opened it in the store. It was clean when I dropped it off.

Good luck with your eject issue.

Applications>Disk Utility

If you can see the title of CD or DVD that is stuck in the drive, highlight it, then click the eject button in the top toolbar.

If you can't see the title of the CD or DVD, close the lid of your macbook and reopen it. Sometimes this forces it to load so you can use the on-screen eject button.

I have this problem with my macbook pro. I have to shake the **** out of it to get it to eject. I am not kidding, hold it on it's side, and press eject (or terminal -> /usr/bin/drutil eject) and then shake it up and down. Disc comes out pretty fast then, so be ready.

command+F5

Then you will need to take it in for service.

open terminal and type:

drutil tray eject

if it doesn't work, restart your mac and when appearing apple's logo,press eject button times

option 5 worked like a charm.. Thank you...

THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!

Option 5 was excellent, thank you.

Nothing was working for me. I must have a faulty motor to eject, but Dave Stowe's suggestion to hold it on it's side and let gravity help did the trick!