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#1
October 14th, 2006, 06:31 PM
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| My CD won't eject from my iMac. I just joined (to ask this I regretfully say). If this is the wrong page to post then I'm sorry. I have a burnt copy of Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction in my iMac right now. It (as in the computer) was working perfectly for about 2 hours until an error message came up saying the CD wasn't ejected correctly and data may of been lost. Now, the CD is still stuck in my iMac and I can't get it out. Ive tried holding the mouse button on restart, Ive tried the manual eject button near the right of the disc drive, and I've tried pressing the eject button at the top right of the keyboard. None seem to help. Can anyone solve my problem? I have an iMac with a slot-loading disc drive. I'm running 10.3.9.  |
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#2
October 14th, 2006, 06:33 PM
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| You have to hold down the mouse button right after you hear the Macintosh startup chime and keep it down until the disc ejects. It might take about 30 seconds or so depending on the time of the boot process.
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#3
October 14th, 2006, 06:39 PM
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| I did. The disc drive (gotta be an easier way to type that) makes the noise that its supposed to make when its pushing the disc out. But, the disc sounds like its pushing against something. |
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#4
October 14th, 2006, 06:50 PM
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| OK, see if there's a small hole somewhere near the slot drive. If there is, that's where you can use a paper clip to manually push out the disc from the drive. While this diagram isn't that of the iMac you own, it's a picture of a slot loading PowerBook that will give you an idea of where it might be and what it might look like. http://www.macusersforum.com/index.p...e=post&id=1949
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#5
October 14th, 2006, 06:53 PM
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| Tried. Failed. My dad (hey, im in the ninth grade) says I should turn off the computer and unscrew it to take the CD out the "old fasion way". |
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#7
October 14th, 2006, 07:12 PM
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| Well, looks like your father might be right. Just make sure you guys are careful in there.
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#8
October 14th, 2006, 07:17 PM
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| Alright. Ill try it tomorrow. Maybe the computer just needs to cool down or something. EDIT: I didn't have to "operate". But now my disc drive won't let me put in any CDs. It only takes the CD half way in, then the CD hits something hard. Help? Last edited by Super Pollo; October 17th, 2006 at 11:23 PM. |
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