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I need to open the SuperDrive flap on a dead MacPro

I am having trouble starting up (grey screen, gear wheel, etc) and I think I have a failed drive. I need to start up from Utility but I cannot insert the disc as the drive door will not open until the startup procedure is complete. How do I open the drive flap manually? If anyone has any other tips i'spd be grateful to hear them. Thank you

Posted on Dec 6, 2012 8:15 AM

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Posted on Dec 6, 2012 9:02 AM

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Start up while holding the Alt/Option key. This should run the All-in-ROM Startup Manager, which needs nothing from any drive to paint a gray screen and draw an Icon for each potentially bootable Volume. Once it has drawn them all, the Eject key on the keyboard goes "live" and will open the drawer. After you insert a DVD it will re-scan, and if the new DVD is potentially bootable, it will be shown a s a boot option.


If a drive that it sees has a corrupted Driver, it can fail, but that is RARE.

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Dec 6, 2012 9:02 AM in response to Wynn Roberts

Semi-automatically:


Start up while holding the Alt/Option key. This should run the All-in-ROM Startup Manager, which needs nothing from any drive to paint a gray screen and draw an Icon for each potentially bootable Volume. Once it has drawn them all, the Eject key on the keyboard goes "live" and will open the drawer. After you insert a DVD it will re-scan, and if the new DVD is potentially bootable, it will be shown a s a boot option.


If a drive that it sees has a corrupted Driver, it can fail, but that is RARE.

I need to open the SuperDrive flap on a dead MacPro

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