I have a cd stuck in my MacBook Pro. How can I get it out?

I know you already had your problem answered, but this other trick worked when all the others failed. When ejecting the CD, I would tilt my macbook sideways so the CD drive was angled down at a slant while pressing my fingers up against the bottom of my mac and into the CD drive, which would push the CD out. Hopefully this works as an alternative method and it helps somebody out.

Reboot the computer holding the option key down, wait for the boot drive options to appear, then press the eject key on the keyboard.

When it's out, then select your boot drive and click the arrow key to boot up.

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.

Hi Kappy,

thanks to your support to Kristin, I managed to get my stuck disc out with the 5th option you gave. It spit the disc out in a split of a second!

Really thanks a lot!

Charlotte

help kristin wrote:

I have a CD stuck in my MacBook Pro. How can I get it out?

Had the problem too.

What I did is:

1. Press the eject button.
2. Using terminal.
3. Followed jacksonbrookssharpe's idea.
4. Then, a "Force eject" screen appeared. I clicked the "Force eject" button... then tilted the mac sideways.

The disc was then ejected.

If these do not work, the guys at the genius Bar see and fix this problem all day, every day. They have developed some tools and techniques that work well for them. If they can fix it in under a quarter hour without requiring parts, they will do it free of charge -- in warranty or out. Be sure to make an appointment.

This was so helpful! Every other page I found, people were just like "use the eject button or drag the icon to the trash". Umm, duh. If those worked, it wouldn't be stuck! I tried all of those before googling... Anyway, I found your post & I used the Terminal trick. The disk finally popped out! Thank you =-)

GRam 1s, greetings: I assume that you have a disk in your Optical Drive. Look at the first response from Kappy. If you have exhausted those methods, then you will have to open the MBP and the Optical Drive and extract the disk. If that is not to your liking, then the Apple store genius bar should be your next destination.

Ciao.

I work on Apple's products all day long for my profession. For the very time since I received my 15" MacBook Pro about a year ago, a disc got stuck in my laptop today and would not eject.

After trying all of the "soft" tricks mentioned in this post, I opted to remove the ten screws from the bottom case to see what was up. With the bottom case removed, I started the MBPro up and allowed it to fully boot. Once booted, I hit the "Eject" key, and the disc came out with ease.

This leads me to believe that there may have been just a bit of pressure on the SuperDrive with the bottom case attached. Very strange...and I've never run into this in the many years of working on laptops. I suppose it's possible that this particular disc was defective in some manner.

Once assembled, I inserted and ejected several new CDs and had not further problems with discs getting stuck inside my MBPro. However, I did not try the culprit disc a second time. It was promptly recycled. 🙂

Gramps.

P.S.- Need I say that if you're not comfortable with opening up a laptop, you should then have someone with training do this for you. Preferrably someone certified with repairs like this. That is if your stuck disc escalates to this level of troubleshooting.

You can quickly turn a $2500.00 laptop into a paper weight if you don't know what you're doing, not to mention void any warranty. 🙂

Gramps.

What worked for me was to take a blank CD and angle it in such a way that the edge was underneath the stuck CD. The stuck CD just popped out. Nothing was wrong with my drive as I put other CDs and DVDs in with no issues. The problem was with that particular CD. Hope it helps someone.

tried all of the other solutions in here first, but it was the vacuumcleaner that did the trick for me

it didn`t shoot out at once, but after trying to focusing the sucktion it gave back

not the pretiest solution i guess, but it worked for me, so thanks for the advice!

The slot was a little narrowed towards the middle due to the case warping a bit.

I inserted a screw driver into the slot just a millimeter, and twisted it to open the slot wider just a bit.

Kept it in place while ejecting the DVD.

That worked.

Theres a simple Utility I created to remove discs that are stuck inside a SuperDrive. Try taking a look:

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/49129/forceject-too

It sits in the menu bar. If you're still having issues, then it could be a hardware fault. Anyway, I hope this works.

Jackson,

My CD was stuck and the computer attempted ejecting unsuccessfuly. I tried your method and it worked. Thanks a bunch. Definitely lowered my stress level and fear of cost for repairs for this issue!!!

Doug