Comments on: Video: How To Remove Stuck CD From iMac / Slot Loading Optical Drive

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:45 +0000

A friend tried the card technique but it didn’t work, cards kept sliding off the disc.

I made the following suggestions;

Make sure the machine is turned off so that the drive hub is not engaged, put double sided thin film tape on the ends of the cards that will come in contact with the disc so that the cards stick to the disc, retry and glory be it popped right out with no damage to drive or disc. Thanks for the vid it was very helpful.

By: John

John — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:15:54 +0000

Thanks! Made mistake of setting CD as startup disk in system prefs bc it wouldn’t restart with CD using hold the C method. Then it wouldn’t start up using the Mac HD and it wouldn’t eject the CD! Your method worked not by ejecting the CD but by preventing it from reading the CD, then it went to the MacHD system as a secondary, and I was to change the system prefs startup disk back! Thanks so much!

By: Roger Dodger

Roger Dodger — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:01:50 +0000

Looks like a good method, but my stuck CD would retract as soon as it hit something in its ejection path.

Have an old MacBook Pro which had a cheap music CD with a paper label that would not slide out far enough to escape the intake sensor (or whatever it is called). When we tried to eject the disk, the disk would obviously hit something on the way out and then immediately get drawn back into the drive. Figured the CD probably warped as it warmed up in use, but I didn’t have time to wait for the computer to cool off. Put the MBP to sleep and stuck it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes and then hit the eject key. The CD popped right out!

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:59:53 +0000

i have a: dell studio xps 16 (1640)
one of my dvd’s is stuck and it dont’t work with the cards, please help?

By: Arnab Mukherjee

Arnab Mukherjee — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:00:52 +0000

Thanks. It worked for me great (within just 1 min)

By: stadybug

stadybug — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:59:06 +0000

This just worked on my PS3 – I had 3 disks stuck from my toddler shoving them inside! THANK YOU!!!!!

By: chris the mac techie

chris the mac techie — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:22:58 +0000

Worked awesome

By: Brian Cometa

Brian Cometa — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:22:49 +0000

glad it helped lukechip!

By: lukechip

lukechip — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:01:02 +0000

You saved me !

Thanks – worked just as you said.