I've gone and got a CD stuck in my superdrive, it was an XP pro disk so I could partition my hard drive and use ye olde Boot camp to use both OS' when ever I needed to. It was a copy as I lost my old one and I think the disk could have been a bit thick, perhaps.
Now I left the CD in my mac and went to lunch, the mac was in my padded bag, but unbeknown to me the section designated for a laptop wasn't padded so any time that I put my bag down it was potentially hitting the floor.
A friend had a similar problem in the way that he had a disk in his super drive and dropped his mac as he fell asleep and it slipped off his lap and clunked to the floor, apparently it miss aligned the heads inside the optical drive and therefore could not get a hold of the CD, this is not the case in my situation, I believe, but sounds similar due to the stuck disk.
At the minute I have a small tab that I can get items over, credit/debit cards and such but it then hits a very firm piece of metal, I assume to stop numpties putting in 2 disks at once. This bit of metal won't go back down and this is why my disk won't eject.... I think.
The disk still reads every time it comes out of sleep so I'm assuming the heads aren't messed up as I'm sure I didn't put it down that hard, and I have dropped my bag harder than this before, I don't want to be taking this back to Apple as I have no warranty left and not sure weather to get the Apple care and then claim.
Does anyone know the internals of these super drives? is it worth me taking the beaut apart? Any info would be greatly appreciated as I want my beast back, I'm yet to try the power management reset yet I doubt that will do anything for me.
Cheers and sorry for the lengthy post
Loonie
Now I left the CD in my mac and went to lunch, the mac was in my padded bag, but unbeknown to me the section designated for a laptop wasn't padded so any time that I put my bag down it was potentially hitting the floor.
A friend had a similar problem in the way that he had a disk in his super drive and dropped his mac as he fell asleep and it slipped off his lap and clunked to the floor, apparently it miss aligned the heads inside the optical drive and therefore could not get a hold of the CD, this is not the case in my situation, I believe, but sounds similar due to the stuck disk.
At the minute I have a small tab that I can get items over, credit/debit cards and such but it then hits a very firm piece of metal, I assume to stop numpties putting in 2 disks at once. This bit of metal won't go back down and this is why my disk won't eject.... I think.
The disk still reads every time it comes out of sleep so I'm assuming the heads aren't messed up as I'm sure I didn't put it down that hard, and I have dropped my bag harder than this before, I don't want to be taking this back to Apple as I have no warranty left and not sure weather to get the Apple care and then claim.
Does anyone know the internals of these super drives? is it worth me taking the beaut apart? Any info would be greatly appreciated as I want my beast back, I'm yet to try the power management reset yet I doubt that will do anything for me.
Cheers and sorry for the lengthy post
Loonie