There are two levers on a slot-loading CD/DVD drive that help center a CD/DVD disc. Let us know what works for you in the comments below! In the rare event that I have a stuck disk in my Mac I opt for the Terminal command mentioned above, it hasn’t failed me yet, though the ‘on boot’ method is also usually a guarantee to work assuming the drive itself isn’t broken. Hold it down until the system boots, again the disk should come out. Sometimes the stuck disk only partially ejects using this trick, so you’ll want to be ready to pull it out either with fingers or whatever else you feel like safely using.Īnother trick is the force-eject on boot: This is done by restarting your Mac and holding down the mouse button (or trackpad button if you have a laptop) as the system boots. If the drive is working, you will hear the eject mechanism. To do this, launch the Terminal and type following command: This often works to forcibly push out a stuck CD or DVD from the drive.

The command line can trigger the disk eject mechanism on Macs that are equipped with SuperDrives and DVD drives.

Click the Eject icon at the top of the Disk Utility screen, it should pop right out.įorcibly Ejecting a Disc with the Command Line

Launch Disk Utility and select the CD/DVD from the sidebar.

These are a bit more advanced, involving applications or the command line to manually trigger the ejection routine of the hardware. The disk should eject with one of those steps, but if it doesn’t you can also try the methods described below.

This should trigger the manual eject mechanism.Ģ) Next, right-click (control-click) on the disks icon on the Desktop and select “Eject” from the contextual menuģ) Drag the disks icon to the Trash bin within the Dock will eject disks as well.Ĥ) Selecting the disk icon upon the desktop, then hit “Command-E” on the keyboard

You may not need to complete all four methods, or you may need to jump ahead to the advanced section below if you’re continuing to have troubles.ġ) Press and hold the Eject key on your keyboard for 5-10 seconds, it looks like the above icon in this post. The first thing to do is try the four easy Mac disk eject methods described in the next few steps, each of these is intended to trigger the ejection mechanism of a superdrive / DVD drive on the Mac computer.

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