On your Mac, choose Apple menu Log Out, then log in again. Try to eject the disc again. If you still can’t eject the CD or DVD, choose Apple menu Restart. While your computer restarts, press and hold the mouse or trackpad button until the disc is ejected. Your first stop will be Disk Utility, located at /Applications/Utilites/Disk Utility.app. Find your disc in the left sidebar and click the eject button up top, or right-click on the disc and select the eject command. You can also eject using OS X's Disk Utility. ForcEject is a tiny little tool of about 100KB that simply does what is intended and tries to force your Superdrive to eject its stuck optical disc. To use the ForcEject Tool, download and run it and an icon will appear on your menu bar. Click on the icon to popup a menu and either select to eject an internal or external SuperDrive. BootCamp CD Eject. Back in 2009, I wrote this little application, because at the time there was no quick and easy way to eject a CD or DVD from one of those slot-loading CD/DVD-ROMs that one would find in Mac’s and MacBook’s. It’s basically a substitute for the missing Eject button on CD/DVD-ROM drives in Mac.
While optical discs are swiftly falling out of fashion, especially within Apple products, many Apple users still own products with optical drives – and at some point a disc will probably get stuck in that drive. So, what can you do when a disc won’t eject? Here’s are some troubleshooting tips that might help!
First courses of action:
- Press and hold the eject key.
- Right click on the disc icon in Finder, or on your desktop, and select the “eject” option from the menu.
- Drag the disk icon to the Trash.
If you’re disc is truly stuck, it’s likely that these won’t fix your problem. Fortunately, we have not yet begun to fight! There are many other tricks to try before giving up and taking it to the Apple Store!
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Round Two
- Launch Disk Utility, select the problem disc in the sidebar, and hit the Eject button at the top of the window. If your disk is still stuck:
- Launch the Terminal app (found in the Utilities folder within Applications), and enter the following command: drutil eject
By now, if the issue is software related (and it usually is), one of these tricks will have worked by now. Personally, I’ve never had the Terminal command fail to eject a disk. If you happen to be unlucky, however, and the disk still wo’t eject, there are still a few more things you can do!
Round Three
- Restart your Mac, while holding down your trackpad button (or your left mouse button if you are using a mouse). Keep holding that button down until the desktop appears. This triggers the system to eject your disk before OS X begins loading.
Open Cd Tray From Keyboard
- Shut down your Mac, then turn it back on and let it rest for 10 minutes. Don’t login to your Mac yet. After a few minutes have past, the disk may eject itself (that’s the default if you insert a disk before login). If not, try pressing the Eject key once more.
If your disk is still stuck, you almost certainly have a mechanical problem rather than a software problem. If your Mac is in warrantee, bring it to the Apple Store, or an Apple Authorized Service Provider. If it’s out of warrantee, an Apple Store still might help you without charging – although it’s equally possible you’ll get charged a service fee, or the optical drive may need to be replaced.
Hopefully you found this tip useful and were able to eject your disk!