CD stuck in slot-load drive

[Gil]

I burned a CD on my iBook, but when i try to eject it, i only comes out a tiny bit, and goes back into the drive. I can't seem to get it out. What's the safest way to get the CD out of the drive? It's a slot-loading drive.

 

[madmax_2069]

have you tried holding the mouse button when you start the Mac, that is a emergency eject system on a Mac for issues like these.

i have never done it so i don't know if you power on the mac and hold the mouse button when you hear the start sound, or hold the mouse button down before you power it on.

 

[Christopher]

you can also hold the eject key to get the CD out at start up.

 

[~tl]

IIRC the iBooks have a manual eject button hidden in the left hand side of the slot which can be activated with a straightened paperclip. Might be worth trying one of those.

 

[Bolle]

you can also try to hold the ibook with the slot facing down and hitting the eject button then... try to shake it a little bit when the drive tries to eject the disc.

another (more hardcore) way is to stick a credit card into the drive when the cd is spinning and try to stop the disc by pressing down on it with the credit card... that should trigger the emergency eject.

@madmax: holding the mouse button on startup only is good when you have software sided problems taht prevent the disc from coming out - like an unreadable disc but the OS tries to read it and crashes while doing so - this wont trigger the emergency eject - its only a normal eject...

 

[Bolle]

does the disc come out far enough so that you cans ee it? if so you can try to grab it with your fingers or a tool of your choice :evil: and force it out by pulling on the disc... id take this only as a last resort if nothing else works... meh - maybe try this before doing the credit card trick (which worked for me once)

 

[Gil]

I was fortunate to be able to grab about 2 millimeters of it to get it out. Thanks!

 

[madmax_2069]

you can also try to hold the ibook with the slot facing down and hitting the eject button then... try to shake it a little bit when the drive tries to eject the disc.
another (more hardcore) way is to stick a credit card into the drive when the cd is spinning and try to stop the disc by pressing down on it with the credit card... that should trigger the emergency eject.

@madmax: holding the mouse button on startup only is good when you have software sided problems taht prevent the disc from coming out - like an unreadable disc but the OS tries to read it and crashes while doing so - this wont trigger the emergency eject - its only a normal eject...

and you don't call a software issue that is keeping the drive from ejecting the CD a emergency. that is why that feature is there. that is not a normal way to eject a disk.

on a QS G4 ( i know his isn't but its a example), there is no accessible eject button, if you have a KB that has no eject button, the other way is by holding F12 when booted in a OS (that is if you can boot into the OS) that is a normal way to eject the disk from the drive. i don't think you can even get to the eject hole in the drive on a QS. the hole hold the mouse button on boot is a backup emergency eject system.

 

[Bolle]

it is indeed an emergency eject when you look at it that way.

i just meant that the drive only gets told by software taht it should eject the disc, when you do the mouse at startup thingy

when sticking a credit card into the drive the drive should trigger its hardware emergency eject.