CD stuck in drive of G4

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CD stuck in drive of G4

I have an older G4 iMac that has a CD stuck in the drive. It keeps trying to boot from the disc, and crashes whenever I turn the computer on. I tried holding down C and also tried Shift to start in safe mode, but it keeps crashing and I cannot eject the disc from the drive (it is the older fron-loading tray type of drive). Is there a way to manually eject it?

iMac G4 600MhZ 60G Mac OS X (10.4.7)

iMac G4 600MhZ 60G Jaguar, Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Posted on Oct 15, 2006 11:42 AM

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Answer 1

ali brown

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Oct 15, 2006 12:10 PM in response to Mahekun

Hi Mahekun!

Have you tried restarting while depressing the mouse?

ali b

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Dimaxum

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Oct 17, 2006 12:46 AM in response to Mahekun

Hi Mahekun,

If the trick from Ali Brown is not working than you always try to stick a paper clip in the little hole form the CD tray. Be sure that the computer is on, insert the paper clip an push a little.

An when this is not working to than unscrew the frond of the tray to get acces to the CD that is stuck.

Good luck ...

Dimaxum

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Answer 3

ali brown

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Oct 17, 2006 6:05 AM in response to Mahekun

Hi Again Mahekun!

Have you gotten the CD out yet?

Before you start dismantling you Mac, post if you are still unsuccessful, at ejecting the CD.
There may be other methods.

ali b

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