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Ultimate CC
7th of January 2009 (Wed), 19:57
I just stuck in a rescuepro disc (the small one) from my sandisk so I can use the recovery software and guess what, the macbook pro will not read it and will not pop it back out...what in the world do i do now...I am in St Kitts for school and won't be back stateside till aug or dec so this blows if there isn't a simple fix...
Andrushka
7th of January 2009 (Wed), 20:03
I just stuck in a rescuepro disc

Dang that is ironic!! What now?? It is simple - get a PC!! hahaha :lol:
Ultimate CC
7th of January 2009 (Wed), 20:05
haha...i had pc and still have one but man is this an annoying problem...
Andrushka
7th of January 2009 (Wed), 20:08
no kidding... i know what its like to be away from the states and not be near to all the technological goodness - tough!!
Ultimate CC
7th of January 2009 (Wed), 20:15
yea its a real pain...Its like xmas though when I get back stateside :)...but yea I finally got the disc out, I used another cd and kept pressing it in and had the comp on a slight tilt and it finally poked out enough for me to grab it...
martines34
7th of January 2009 (Wed), 20:22
There may be a small hole in which you can put a straightened paper clip in which forced the disc out.

Another was is using a very thin flat metal blade to slide along the disc, which is probably warped, so that the disc will come out. You can try the top of the disc first and then try the bottom of the disc. Don't force anything.
TheHoff
7th of January 2009 (Wed), 20:22
Dear Mac,

Stop cheaping out on the Superdrives.

Signed,

An unhappy MBP owner who's superdrive died after 2 months
Andrushka
8th of January 2009 (Thu), 03:15
glad to hear you got it out! that would be a bummer... so is it the drive or your disc?
Ultimate CC
8th of January 2009 (Thu), 06:14
i think it was the disc...
Andrushka
8th of January 2009 (Thu), 06:35
oh well that isn't so bad then... better than your drive going out like Hoff's!
René Damkot
8th of January 2009 (Thu), 18:50
Force eject a CD in OSX: Hold mouse button while booting the Mac....

Click (http://www.tuaw.com/2006/03/27/tuaw-tip-keyboard-shortcuts-during-mac-os-x-startup/)

I'm guessing the CD being a mini CD is the problem here. I can imagine a slot loading drive wouldn't like that...
Andrushka
8th of January 2009 (Thu), 19:30
I'm guessing the CD being a mini CD is the problem here. I can imagine a slot loading drive wouldn't like that...

good call on the mini cd in the slot drive - i would think it would be easy to miss-align