How force eject disc

I have had the same issue with my Macbook Pro for months now. Everything I tried did not work. And I tried all of the five steps above, repeatedly. I finally got it out today. It was a combination of the running your thumb along the seal (although I used a greeting card) and turning the computer on its side and shaking it up and down while the ejecting (or non-ejecting) is happening. I got the shaking idea from another thread about this. I did try just clearing the opening as suggested above, but it didn't work that way all by itself. So I added the shaking.

Thank you SO much jnmaloof!!!! Finally, finally, finally, finally.

I had to keep holding down the eject key (after the boot screen came up). It ended up ejecting a little at a time, sliding part way out and then on a bit, and then out further again. Finally it was far enough to pull it out. (At this point I didn't want something to go wrong and so took the risk to pull it.)

This worked like a charm. Thank you.

This = right-clicking on the mouse during Restart

Had the same problem again, but right click didn't work. Put the tapered end of a wooden chopstick between the rubber on the sides of the eject slot and slid it down slowly. This separated the rubber enough and the disc ejected when I hit the eject button. I had the problem with a CD-R, but it does not occur with a store-bought music CD,

Jnmaloof...it worked! Thanks!!

After building my iMac from scratch, the optical drive failed to release my OS disc. I could hear the disc attempting to be read, but, could not proceed from that point. So, I did the right click + thumb in the optical drive maneuver and it worked straight away.

to jnmaloof ...

thanks so much!

after twenty-four hours of panic this method worked for me.

thank you so much jnmaloof! in first try, it failed because I didn't shut down my macbook, just restart it over and over again and continously try the option button and eject button method. I try this method sooo many times, other methods too but failed. so I leave my macbook overnight and try it again in the next morning, and it worked flawlessly! thank you so much. to anybody who has a same trouble, good luck🙂

"I also have a computer with no OS installed.

What worked for me was to 1) hold down the option key on start-up until the disk/boot icons appear. 2) Then press the eject key (or F12) on the keyboard. Pressing eject on its own did not work."

Yes, this is the ticket!

Thanks!

I had tried everything to eject my Windows 8.1 disk and then I read your advice. Brilliant. Now can you tell me how I can stop my Macbook Pro (OS X Mavericks) from booting up in Windows?

Mactopman trick did it for me, thx

I had a DVD that was stuck in my macbook pro and none of the steps listed worked. So I folded a piece of paper, slid it into the DVD slot (on the left side of the opening), and made contact with my DVD (which was still spinning). And once I slowed it down and almost stopped it from spinning. The computer recognized it and spit it out! This was very frustrating, so I wanted to share what worked for me and hopefully it will help someone else in the same jam I was in.

Your very first tip worked! Restart with left mouse button held down (Bluetooth wireless Magic Mouse) - viola! And I was nearly booking the iMac in for repair.

Thank you!