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Comment on Ejecting a Stuck CD or DVD from Mac Mini by Chronos

Chronos — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:18:44 +0000

Here is a solution for a stuck disc in the CD drive of a Mac Mini when all other posted procedures seem to fail and before you grab a screwdriver, butterknife or spatula …

(This applies to Mac Mini OS X 10.6.2, 2.26 GHz Intel Core Duo)

1. Shut down the Mac Mini
2. Connect a corded USB keyboard to the Mini
3. On the keyboard, press and hold the D key, then press the button to start the Mini (keep pressing the D key until hell freezes over)
4. Eventually, a window appears that says Apple Hardware Test Version 3A150 (you might be asked to select English as your language of choice before you see the test version)
5. Click on the Test button to start the hardware test (the option for the lengthier test is not necessary)
6. Once the test is over, the results will likely say that everything is okay. Choose the option to SHUT DOWN the Mini.
7. Suddenly, the CD will be ejected from the Mini.

This worked for me when all other methods failed. I must give thanks to Kris for helping me find this solution.

Chronos

Comment on Ejecting a Stuck CD or DVD from Mac Mini by wickedlush

wickedlush — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:46:51 +0000

If you have VMWare running (maybe the same with parallels??), and cannot eject a disk, or if you have a Mac Pro and cannot open the CD tray, then it may be because VMWare is controlling the superdrive. Recently, I had this issue – the eject button would not open the superddrive, and the menu-bar eject button showed the superdrive grayed out. In the end, I looked at the VMWare settings, and unchecked “connected” under “CDs & DVDs”, and I was able to open the drive…

Comment on “Unknown Hard Error” Pop-Up Dialogs After Crash in Windows XP by Boss

Boss — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:13:32 +0000

Thanks for this. Solved my issue straight away

Comment on “Unknown Hard Error” Pop-Up Dialogs After Crash in Windows XP by Thorsten

Thorsten — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:49:37 +0000

And you solved with your post my problems. Thanks alot for that.
Best regards Thorsten

Comment on Crontab Under Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) by Setting up cron / launchd on OS X 10.5? | Wulf

Setting up cron / launchd on OS X 10.5? | Wulf — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:54:00 +0000

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Comment on Ejecting a Stuck CD or DVD from Mac Mini by MrMaDSeN

MrMaDSeN — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:31:48 +0000

DVD of mine is stuck in a mac mini core duo 1.83. Nothing of the above seems to help. Drive spins up and down constantly and freezes when I try to use disk utility. It can see the drive but I can not get to point on the EJECT button.

I am really stuck here…. whats my options.. Return it to the Apple store?

Comment on Ejecting a Stuck CD or DVD from Mac Mini by Super Dave Osbourne

Super Dave Osbourne — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:42:20 +0000

Have MacMini 1.83 core 2 duo. OS X 10.4.10 with VMWare installed. Have GNUstep Live 1.0 CD and booting. No problem until I force quit during a reinstall of GNUstep attempt while trying to save time between reboots of the VM. Now CD is stuck in drive, and both the above drutil tray eject and drutil tray eject 1 do not work. Disk util does not see the device, or the CD media in said device. Time to reboot (shame on apple) to eject a CD. I thought times had advanced to the point where software was tested and the OS wouldn’t get confused like this… I guess not.

Comment on Ejecting a Stuck CD or DVD from Mac Mini by william

william — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:42:04 +0000

yeah my wife stuck a dvd cleaner disc into our mac mini, it would not mount, it kept trying to force it out but due to the “little brushes” on the cleaning disk, it was jammed.
i googled some advice and turning the mini upside down and, re-booting, and for good measure holding the mouse button Worked!

Comment on “Unknown Hard Error” Pop-Up Dialogs After Crash in Windows XP by Björn

Björn — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:09:12 +0000

Thanks a million^^

Comment on Ejecting a Stuck CD or DVD from Mac Mini by wickedlush

wickedlush — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:21:22 +0000

Unfortunately, Disk Utility didn’t work for me in this instance – which is why I was happy to find a lower-level way of doing it. Worth trying though – thanks for the comment