#APPLE CD DRIVE JAMMED MAC#

I then pulled the L down slowly and not too hard. The part thatвЂ™s not so elegant is when a stubborn CD or DVD gets stuck Over the years, a ton of different methods for ejecting stuck discs have been passed around the Apple community.

#APPLE CD DRIVE JAMMED MAC#

I did gently shake the imac on my leg a little bit, and also made sure that the iMac screen was perpendicular to the floor - not leaning one way or the other. The slot-loading optical disc drives in MacBooks, iMacs, and Mac Minis are definitely more elegant than those flimsy trays on most computers. I then fished the L shaped manila folder piece into the slot (with the leg of the 'L' facing the bottom of the iMac). I left the iMac stand on the desk and then rested the side of the iMac on my legs, but there could be other ways to turn it sideways that leaves the slot accessible.

Insert the pin into the hole and push until the disc or tray pops out. Grab a pin, needle or uncoiled paper clip that fits into the pinhole. Locate the pinhole on the front of the disc drive. I then turned the iMac on it's side so the dvd was facing down. Some external disc drives have an emergency pinhole used to force eject a disc stuck inside. My method from the other responses was to take a manila folder and cut it into an 'L' shape about 4' high and 3' wide. Buy: 19.99 Apple iBook G3 M6497 12.1 Laptop CD-ROM DVD Drive with. I could have easily wasted three hours taking this to apple store or calling apple care. Buy: 24.99 Apple USB Superdrive CD DVD DRIVE Model A1379. Wow - I have a 21' imac and did this based on everyone's advice and it worked! Thanks for the scoop.

Apple cd drive jammed