DVD stuck in MacBook

Hi all,

I received a DVD with some media on it last night. Popped it in my MacBook to copy it over to the network. It wouldn't appear on the desktop, or in finder. I pressed eject, and nothing happens.

I re-started, holding eject... nothing. I can hear the DVD "spin up" when I start the machine, but it never appears in finder, and will not eject. It's as if OS X doesn't think there is a disk inserted.

I even tried gently inserting another disk, as if to "nudge" it into place, but no go.

The media on this disk is (naturally) on deadline.

Suggestions?

A quick search brings up:
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You can add an eject menu item.

Go to the desktop, find your harddrive icon, double click, then find and double click 'System', then 'Library', then 'CoreServices' and then 'Menu Extras'. Inside you will find an item called Eject.menu.
This puts an eject icon in the menu bar.

An alternative is to use some freeware called Ejector which shows all volumes as ejectable.
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I have the eject.menu installed and I seem to remember it has ejected some troublesome disks in the past.

Also during startup you can...
<<Press Eject, F12, or hold the mouse button Ejects any removable media, such as an optical disc.>>

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Also during startup you can...
<<Press Eject, F12, or hold the mouse button Ejects any removable media, such as an optical disc.>>

Right, tried that, without luck.

I will look for "ejector".

-MW

Just for form, did the disk have a paper label on it?

If all the usual suspects (Mouse Button During Startup) fail, you may be in for a drive replacement. Macs have fairly serious methods of emergency ejection. They knew this was going to happen. I think you're already in doo doo, but if you have a few more options, go for it.

One more from the ridiculous past. Make sure your battery is charged completely. Turn the MacBook off, slip it inside a plastic bag and slide it into the refrigerator. Come back in a half-hour or longer and start it with the "mouse" button held down. Keep holding. If you get the gray apple, it didn't work.

Koz

Saw this on-line:
[www.macusers.org]

Also, I've seen it happen on a couple of occasions that when a DVD won't play, it's warpped. That might be what's holding it on too.

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Reboot while holding down the touchpad bar until the disk pops out.

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

In the older powerbooks you could stick the point of a paperclip in either the left or right side of the slot (about 1" deep or so) and it would pop it out. I don't know if this is true for the macbooks.

Fascinating. As a final resort--

1) remove the optical drive module

2) preheat oven to 750 degrees

3) place in middle rack

4) bake for half an hour or until disc plastic melts out

[Alright , I'm kidding-- you can't sue me. I mean, really, most consumer ovens don't go past 650.]

- Loren
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If you have Toast installed, upon it, and find the "Eject Disk" command. Always works for me...

You can also lauch iTunes and click on the 'Eject' button.

--ken

Hey Mike,

Did you resolve this? How?

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