Comments on: Eject a stuck disk from your Mac DVD super drive

By: Deanna

Deanna — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 04:21:54 +0000

To force eject a disc on an iMac, turn off computer and as computer is restarting hold down left mouse button. Do not go to re start in menu. Use button on iMac and hold it down for 10 seconds. Better still turn it off at the wall. If you just restart you may experience problems like losing your date and time and wireless info.
Hope this helps someone.

By: Manas

Manas — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:04:16 +0000

My situation is similar to yours – the VCD does not show up in Finder and none of the ‘normal methods’ work. How do I find if my iMac superdrive is also mounted inside a virtual machine? I have a partition using Bootcamp for Windows XP, if that has any bearing. How do I unmount the drive from the virtual host?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

By: Mory

Mory — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:55:44 +0000

Thanks for your help

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:29:22 +0000

*iMac

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:28:40 +0000

I have a 2008 Intel Imac with Lion OS and latest Safari and other software. The Terminal option worked great the first time. Thank you!

By: Vince

Vince — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:35:57 +0000

The terminal option is a good one, but it might be worth knowing that if you have external optical drives connected, the command “drutil eject” might actually eject one of these instead of your internal optical drive. This has happened to me just today. However, if you are not sure which number is assigned to your internal optical drive (in my case “0″) (Zero), you can find this if you have Disk Utility open, and then go to terminal app again and type in “drutil eject 0″ (or what ever your DVD drive number is), then press enter, and it will eject the disc in the internal CD/DVD.

By: Donald

Donald — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:06:24 +0000

Thanks!
The terminal command worked for me.

By: Amar

Amar — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:00:29 +0000

My iMac keeps hanging on to the “Apple” Logo and shutting down. I inserted Hardware Check DVD and it got stuck after 2min. So I reboot. Now I cant seem to eject the dvd.

Help!

By: Alan Inglis

Alan Inglis — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:02:20 +0000

Disk Utility worked a treat. Many thanks. AI

By: jrodes

jrodes — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:24:25 +0000

Thank you sooooooo much for posting. It’s the only method that worked after my wonderful daughter put TWO DVDs in the drive.

By: JU.C.Adendorff

JU.C.Adendorff — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:54:57 +0000

I Have tried everything thing possible and will have to replace the cd drive. Probably broken Please advise HOW?

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:00:04 +0000

Great guidance. The disk utility (superdrive EJECT) trick worked beautifully. My CD has been in for over a week, thanks so much

By: Evan Bench

Evan Bench — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:56:28 +0000

I had this problem and none of the steps shown fixed it until I realized that the iMac super drive was also mounted inside a virtual machine running on parallels desktop. This caused the DVD to not show up on Finder and would not eject with any ‘normal method’. After unmounting the drive in the virtual host, the drive became visible (and ejectable) in finder!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:25:37 +0000

I have an IMAC. I tried restarting and it tried to access the disc (looking to boot from drive I think) in any event, the computer would not reboot so did not have a chance to use some of the methods described in this thread. I stuck a paperclip in the slot kept the disc from spinning when I rebooted. The disc was ejected!

By: zipkin162

zipkin162 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:36:29 +0000

If nothing works try this:
Take two credit cards. First put one of the into the slut while tilting outer end upward. This helps you tilt the inner edge downward. Then slide in maybe quarter or half of it. Take second card and do above actions inverse. The idea is to get the stuck disc by means of two cards used as if a tweezers. Last but not the least while pressing the credit cards pull out the DVD. It would come out very easily. I have tried everything above the took out two Dvds out of my superdrive. The second one forced into while the first one still in there most probably by my lovely daughter