DVD will not eject?

zekestone · Nov 21, 2009

Put a DVD in the side disk drive and it will not eject...can anyone help?

vansmith · Nov 21, 2009

Open up Terminal (/Applications/Utilities) and type in the following:

Code:

drutil eject

Hit enter. Did it eject? If that doesn't work, hold down the mouse button as you restart your Mac.

zekestone · Nov 21, 2009

Didn't work...either option.

Any other ideas?

vansmith · Nov 21, 2009

There is a list here of options for you. You can give some of these a try. If those don't work, there is likely a larger issue.

Mitcherooney · Nov 21, 2009

Or you could go to disk utility and eject from there

Sawday · Nov 21, 2009

Were you using a windows emulator (Parallels or Fusion for example) when you inserted the disk. I've been caught out by this several times. If you are in Windows when you insert the disk it won't eject from the mac and visa versa.

vansmith · Nov 21, 2009

Sawday said:
Were you using a windows emulator (Parallels or Fusion for example) when you inserted the disk. I've been caught out by this several times. If you are in Windows when you insert the disk it won't eject from the mac and visa versa.

I'm going to assume this isn't the issue since, if he tried both of my original ideas, he would have restarted his machine. Good thinking though.

dserban · Nov 21, 2009

I had the same. Reboot in safe mode and eject from there. It should work.

Dysfunction · Nov 21, 2009

If your problem is a file in use this should eject it.

Code:

for i in $(mount | grep read-only | awk '{print $3}')
	do
	j=$(lsof | grep $i | awk '{print $2}')
	kill -9 $j
	drutil eject
done

DVD will not eject?

zekestone

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zekestone

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