How to force eject a disc from external drive?

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How to force eject a disc from external drive?

Applications>Utilities>Disc Utility>Eject will not eject a DVD from the Apple external disc drive. Is there another route?

Posted on Apr 7, 2016 9:06 AM

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Answer 1

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dominic23

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Apr 7, 2016 9:26 AM in response to Mnkydoc

3. Launch Terminal.

Applications > Utilities > Terminal

Type in drutil eject external

Press enter.

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Rudegar

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Apr 8, 2016 4:29 AM in response to Mnkydoc

How to eject your disc?

how to eject a CD from macbook Pro

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mac eject optical disc

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Answer 3

Apr 11, 2017 8:26 AM in response to Mnkydoc

We had a DVD stuck in the external SuperDrive. Disc mounted and played fine but would not eject.

Finally I turned the drive over and issued the eject command.

That worked!

hth,

Dee Dee

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Anon36

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Dec 2, 2016 1:45 PM in response to Mnkydoc

I have the same problem! The macbook pro does not even recognize the disk drive or the disk itself. How can i get it out? There is no eject button or little hole to poke with a paperclip...

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