Mini mac cd wont eject

This usually happens when: Press the 'Eject' key on your keyboard. Quit all open applications, and restart the Finder Apple menu, Force quit, then restart Finder , and try again. Open Terminal, and enter in the following command: Basically, you use a credit card and some tape to try to grip the CD hard enough and use that friction to pull it out of your Mac: Stick a small patch of sticky tape onto a corner of the credit card it's a good idea to NOT do this over the magnetic strip Put the credit card just into the drive through the little dust flap so you can see a little bit inside the drive.

There's a lever that lets the disc eject. You'll need to hold the card over that lever, and try to get the sticky tape onto the disc, then pull out the disc with the card.

It's a little tricky; you just have to be brave I sometimes use a mini screwdriver to see inside, as well. I'll never know unless one of the kids rips the duct tape off the drive slot and jams another in. So, nearly seven years between posts, two optical drive-related iMac issues are resolved. The next one I buy apparently won't have an optical drive, so don't expect to check in around for a continuation on this theme. Not the tools I usually keep in my computer repair kit, but sometimes you just have to improvise.

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Dennett Daniel C. Megan Molteni Dun Dun. Now I'm not sure if this would work in your case but wouldn't be that difficult to try without damaging the CD disk. I have a mid Mac mini, and a new CD became stuck in the optical drive after importing its tracks to iTunes.

The Mac software was telling the drive to eject the disk, and I could hear it trying, but the disk would not come out of the drive slot. Something was blocking it. It was clearly a mechanical problem, and something inside was blocking the disk from ejecting properly. With computer shutdown and the power cord disconnected, I finally tried a smooth plastic membership card like a credit card with no raised lettering on top.

I gently slipped the short edge of the card straight into the right side of the slot about a third of the length of the card. I could feel it slide over the obstruction, and felt and heard the obstruction move a little then I could hear it "click" up and down again, as I slid the card in and out very gently, so it apparently it had become stuck in the "up" position and wasn't retracting down properly. Then I plugged in the power cord and booted. After I logged in, I selected the optical drive, and did a normal Eject operation.

The disk popped right out, as it should. I seldom use the optical drive, and this Mac mini has been running almost continuously for 3 years now as a media hub in my home network. This is the first mechanical issue I've had with this Mac mini. By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service , privacy policy and cookie policy , and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies.

Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. How to get out a stuck cd out of my mac mini not the actual model the one from ? Then I tried using the terminal but this didn't work either.

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Mayby with a tweezer? Any ideas? The fact the mechanism wants to eject but can't points to hardware failure. Can you access the CD? If you make a Genius Bar appointment at an Apple Store, they will normally eject the disc for you free of charge. If there is an underlying mechanical failure, though, then that will cost money if you're out of warranty. But at least you'll get your disc back.