Eject button on mac not working

Do not type: Tried it all. I think the double stick taped cardboard pulled it closer to coming out. Then, after I nearly gave up, I inserted two butter knives in the drive and was able to sandwich the disc in between and yank it out. Thanks so much! Many thanks! Just did method 10, the cardboard trick. Worked like a charm! Thank you! I had been browsing solutions for awhile stressed about the repairs for this stupid CD and after trying everything I came upon number 8 and it slid out like magic!!!

I honestly cant thank you enough!!!!!!! Once it got into the loop, nothing would work and Disk Utility kept saying the DVD was in use so would not eject. The Paper trick worked. I pushed a sticky note into the slot, this made the DVD stop turning. I was then able to use the eject button. Came across your info. Number one worked right off the bat!

Sooooooooo Happy!!!!!!! So nice! For me worked way Nr 2. Before I was getting mad with this piece of junk. I have tried many options before but nothing. So with A Nr 2 works fine. Huge thanks for author for all those tips…. Hi guys Force Eject Tool did it straight off this is apple stuff when it work ok when it does not then just ask thank you for the tip. It worked with the ForcEject app, while holding it sideways and pressing my finger on the bottom of it!!

Still cannot get my system to re-boot but that is a different story. I can always get the discs out by restarting and press the ejection button…. Of course I wonder why. It worked!!! I turned my Mac upside down, tilted in a 45 degree angle, pressed the eject button and shoke it a little…. Thanks for the tip! Greatly appreciate it: Option 8 worked. I tried it intermittently and one day it worked! But this is cheaper than taking the macbook pro to a service centre. Number 9 worked! Turned MacBook Pro upside down and shook it excessively while it did the whirring ejection and disc came out.

Thank you for the tips! What finally worked was a birthday card inserted so that the one disc that was showing just a wee bit was between the two parts of the card, making a disc sandwich between two cardstock pieces of bread. No damage to the discs! Tilting my Macbook to a 45 degree angle after hitting the eject button on my keyboard worked on the first try! Thanks for the tip: After many attempts and after having given up and put everything away, I decided one more try! So, I held it, opening facing downward, pressed Eject from file menu and it popped right out.

Thanks for your suggestion to TILT it! I had a mini cd stuck in my MacBook…my son tilted the laptop so the side with the dvd writer was facing downward and then he shook it. Voila, the mini cd fell right out: Thanks a bunch! Number 10 worked. I used a index card pushing it all the way to the back. Not only did one CD come out but two!!!

Thanks, nothing worked until the last one — credit card was too small, but I used a folded commercial letter, pushed it gently right in as far as it would go, heard a click and when I pulled it out the disk came too. Now I just have to try again so see if a cd actually works! The method of holding the trackpad button down while booting got my CD out. Any help? Well …after two hours of reading how to problem solve with NO results, I found this article and Duh!

It was stuck under my thin computer and the fan it sits on!!! I feel like such a duffus! It was the clearest one out there and you could say, even though my stuck CD was under the computer not in it, that indeed it solved my problem so Thank You! I used methods 8, 9 and 10 combined. My computer kept on making loud sounds when the disc was inside.

And now, it finally came out! Thanks again! Thanks I used no7, my stuck disk had not been recognised by the mac, it was one of those small disks, so on eject on upturned machine less than 1mm protruded from the drive, a metal tooth pic was needed to pull it from the drive as the space was too fat for tweezers.

Wont be putting this sized disk in the machine again! None of these options worked for me, the only thing that saved me was going into Disk Utility and unmounting the dvd first and then ejecting it through Disk Utility.

Thank You Thank You!!!!! For anyone who tried everything to no end, I found what works EVERY TIME for me now is to hold the macbook at a 45 degree angle while spamming the terminal eject command as fast as possible by using the up arrow key and enter, then eventually the edge of the disc will pop out but be quick and grab it because it will go back in. I have been trying for three hours to get this disk out. I could hear it trying to eject, but it would never come out. As soon as I turned it over and ejected, it popped right out!

Thank you so much! Tried almost all of them without any luck until Then, it worked and the CD came out. Thanks so much. I independently came upon 9 on my own; using the force of gravity along with the defective ejection motor worked and the disk did pop out for removal. That was so easy. Used the OS X and it worked, no sweat. Love YOU. The Force Eject tool software was easy to download and effectively removed the CD!!!

Carefully slid card stock corner with tape in drive so that it was on top of the disc and pushed the eject key. Real smooth… Powered up Mac Book Pro and held finger on mouse— disc came right out. Thank you!!!!

Use the Mac's Boot Manager to Eject a Stuck CD/DVD

Thanks so much for this thread, because of you and the collaborative effort of comments I got my installation CD back: The mouse button held down on boot up worked for me. I tried many of these options to no avail; however, I eventually flipped my Macbook upside down and simultaneously pressed the eject button and presto…out it popped!!!!

Maybe it was a combination of the attempts? Just happy to finally have the disc ejected! Thanks — I tried several different things but eventually the disc drive ejected the DVD on its own. The computer had to be up and running for about five minutes before it took the action on its own. I was just getting ready to try the tilt method….

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It worked! Half a Hallmark card in the slot with the disk, turn it off, wait a minute, turn back on and the disk automatically ejects without a command to do so! Muchas gracias con todos! Thanks man! Inspired by 3 , I just inserted credit card into the slot and moved it for a while inside. Thanks for this. I just tipped it forward, as suggested, and it slid out. Might have saved a timewasting trip to the Mac Shop.

Saved me true hell Raymond. Mad Respect. Thanks for all the tips for future referance. I got mine out by pressing the F12 key while booting. Thank you I used costa caffee reward card: You have to stick it pretty deep though. It worked Thank you!!!!! Saved my day. Thank you thank you thank you for saving my night! Thank you so much!! I tried to do the duo thing of both mac and windows, and while doing windows it got stuck and i could not stop it from constantly trying to setup windows….

Suggestion 4 worked just as described above. I turned on my Macbook and let the DVD spin for about 10 minutes.

Use the Mac's Boot Manager to Eject a Stuck CD/DVD

After that, the disc automatically ejected and the OS booted normally. Thanks for saving me a trip to the repair shop Raymond! I inserted it into the slot and squeezed the upper and lower surfaces together by hand when it was most of the way in, grabbing the mini disc from above and below and pinching it between the two surfaces. After about three quick tries I pulled the CD right out. Inserting cardboard while holding down eject popped the DVD right out.

Thanks again for your help! This worked.. Thank YOU!!!!!!! Thanks you so much. I was about to cry, its my dads laptop, if I had broken it man I would have been busted. So thanks. I tried for over 2 hours to eject a disc and after reading this I restarted computer and held down touch pad. Thank you so much, prob saved me hundreds in unneeded repairs! Hey, I took it to the apple store and the guy got it out in literally 60 seconds.

What the guy did is he took two business cards made of cardboard, not plastic and put one on the upper brim of the cd slot and one on the lower. He did it about twice gently and bam, cd was out. Good thing I scrolled down to read enough comments to reach yours, because the other methods do NOT work for those of us with a metal casing that is bent down over the drive! Thanks for saving me a trip to Apple store!

It seems like many found this useful. Thank you, holding the track pad worked for me! I tried everything and finally that worked!

Mac OS X - Force Ejecting a CD

I was so close to throwing it out the window and having an even bigger problem! The tilting one work a charm for me. I used an index card and followed your instructions. CD came out and it booted right up after that! Thanks so much!! I just saved my self a hundred dollars!! You are a God send!! I used one of my kids flash cards and tried what you said to do and it worked!

Thanks for the help. Restarting the computer while holding down the eject button finally got mine to come out! Wow, I was freaking out. Disc stuck but my MBP booted fine, no issue there. The master had a label printed with a printer very thick i suspect that as culprit. No genius bar visit for me!!! THAT worked, after many other unsuccessful attempts. Anything worked with mine to eject the dvd and I had to TURN the macbook pro OFF not just restarting it and then press the touchpad button and the button eject at the same time.

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They were really helpful. Vielen Dank. Thank you so much for your advice. I looked all over the help systems and discussions and nothing worked. By holding the track bar down and simultaneously putting an envelope in the hard drive to stop the disk from spinning it ejected ending a 6 hour ordeal. We had the exact problem that you described which was that it kept trying to boot from the CD. Now we get to fix a corrupt kernel, but at least we have a fighting chance.

Dismiss Join GitHub today GitHub is home to over 31 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together. Sign up. New issue. Copy link Quote reply. Hey there, It seems that Karabiner-Elements is messing with the Eject key on the external apple keyboard, rendering it pretty unusable.

Any solutions for that? This comment has been minimized. Sign in to view. This is like the most useful feature and it's missing! The boot manager may not be able to find any device that could be used to boot from, so it never appears on the screen. After waiting a reasonable amount of time, you can go ahead and hit the eject key on an Apple wired keyboard, and the eject command will be sent to all removable drives, including your optical drive.

This last tip may work on some non-Apple keyboards as well, but it seems to be dependent on the specific keyboard design. Share Pin Email. Tom Nelson has written hundreds of articles, tutorials, and reviews for Other World Computing and About. He is the president of Coyote Moon, Inc. Shut down your Mac.

Power on your Mac while holding down the option key. When the Boot Manager appears, it will display all bootable drives. Press and hold the eject key. Once the CD or DVD is ejected, you can use your mouse to click on the drive you want to boot from, and then finish booting.