How force eject disc

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 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.

GOOD CALL....just bought an i7 macbook pro used, it had a romance advice cd that would not eject. I ran a business card back and forth the slot, ejected fine next try....thank you very much..

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Been through this a couple of times now.. cause by my kids putting CD's in with paper labels stuck on them... they kind of get 'stuck' due to the tolerances of the MAC drive...

the ONLY way i have found to get this to eject - eject buttons / right mouse clicks etc all fail ..is to let the MAC 'cool' down by pulling the power to it ..leaving t for 10/15 minutes then let it start up..when it gets to the login screen I just leave it ... it keeps trying every few minutes to eject the disk ..after what might seem like an eternity it will eventually force it out.... since it clearly recognises it needs to eject it..it neither loads nor unloads cleanly enough for the mac so it keeps trying to spit it out..

may be of help to some others...

A DVD stuck in my SD didn’t mount and, hence, couldn’t be ejected software-wise.

None of the above helped since I have an external Superdrive on a MacBook Pro with neither mouse nor eject button or key. And the Terminal command suggested wouldn’t work either.

So I figured out the following procedure:

I disconnected the SD (unplugged the USB connection)

started a disc burning application (in my case Toast)

gave it a disc burning task (dropped a random picture file)

pressed the BURN button

when prompted to connect a disc burner, I connected the SD

WHILE the SD with the DVD stuck inside was spinning up I repeatedly pressed the EJECT button on the Toast interface...

and the DVD ejected!

I hope this helps you as much as it did help me.

Cheers

I had a corrupted DVD that would not eject via ANY of the standard methods listed here. What did work was to boot into Open Firmware (cmd + option + o + f) and enter the command:

eject-cd

CD ejected... then enter:

reboot

Throw evil DVD across room onto brick wall... soooo satisfying.

I was just going to post this solution until seeing the most recent comment "here", by Brandon. This is exactly what I finally discovered, after trying all sorts of keyboard tricks short of re-booting. On an rMBP with no eject key and the SuperDrive icon not showing in Finder, nor any emergency eject pin - I thought to try one last thing, which was to use the old trusty disk utility. Just as described, and pleasantly surprised by seeing this, the Superdrive was listed as a volume even though stuck and invisible in finder. The DVD itself had options to change things around, but I went with right clicking on the top volume level (the drive itself) and then "eject". Worked like a charm. Following an apparently bad/corrupt large file transfer from an external drive via Mac (clearing space). So, this seems like a handy fix.

This worked like a charm!!! Nothing else worked. Thank you jnmaloof!

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.

Thank you. Nothing else worked for me (including the slightly odd tip I've seen elsewhere to turn the drive upside down - which seemed to work for many others) but restarting with rt mouse button click solved it. and saved me trying to open the drive with a screwdriver....

Is it a USB mouse, or Wireless?

I just had this same issue. I restarted the Macbook 2007 in target mode from another mac, and ejected the installation disk from there.

Hold down the right mouse (not the left) key after you hear the chime at startup. That worked for me!

I've tried everything but this, this really work. Thanks 🙂