Please Help...CD stuck in drive

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I have a 2003 Powerbook G4 with the 1.33Ghz processor.

I was reinstalling iLife '05 and the DVD is stuck inside the drive, not one program on my entire computer "sees" the disk. Disk Utility doens't even recognize it. My eject button does nothing and there's no process in Act. Monitor that suggests ejecting. I've already tried an Applescript I found called "Ejector Seat" which supposedly ejects anything. It doesn't even recognize the disk. I've tried logging in as a different user, restarting, shutting down, booting from the CD (i know it won't work, b/c it's iLife, but it should still recognize the disk). I've tried everything.

Please help me. :confused:
 
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Restart
At start up hold down
Command Option O F
type 'eject cd'
that should eject it
 
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Thanks for the quick reply, but to no avail. Disk is still in there.

>eject cd
>eject device not found...ok


Anything else I could try?
 
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Shut down computer.
While the computer is off press and hold the mouse button / track-pad button
while you are holding down the mouse button press the power button and continue to hold the mouse button. Doing this should pop the disk right out. If this doesn't work take you PowerBook to you local Genus Bar and get it checked out.
 
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Ah yes, I got it out.

I used "df" in Terminal to get the name of the drive and cd.
Then used "hdiutil eject 'disk'" to eject it successfully.

Thanks for all the suggestions.
 
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surfwax95 said:
Ah yes, I got it out.

I used "df" in Terminal to get the name of the drive and cd.
Then used "hdiutil eject 'disk'" to eject it successfully.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

In Open Firmeware you need to type "eject-cd", not "eject cd".

But good that you found an other workaround. :cool:
 

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