How force eject disc

this option worked for me when the DVD had disappeared from the Finder menu and all other Eject functions were not working - thanks

best answer so far by jnmaloof

i have tried everything else, but this helped me.

Kappy, thank you! I was going crazy. The Utilities application worked wonderfully but would not eject until I used both the command AND tilted the computer on its side. Marvelous!

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.

Thanks! #5 was the only option that worked for me!

This solved my problem, thank you!

THank you for simple and working answer!

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.

Thank you very very much!!!!!!

perfect!!! thanks jnmaloof it did work!!!

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.

After trying everything, made a decision to open the computre open the drive and remove

the cd , somehow the cd was stuck in the grove...l want to thank you all for your ***

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....

It may be a long time since this was posted - but it worked fine on my 2008 MacBook!

I tried all of those things and wasted a lot of time. The only thing that fixed it was a complete shut down. From now on, I'm going to cut to the chase, without trying the above suggestions.