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Can't eject DVD when drive does not recognise it.
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<blockquote data-quote="charliegriffin" data-source="post: 1638412" data-attributes="member: 209371"><p><strong>DVD drive</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi bobtomay</p><p></p><p>Yes you're right! Silly me….What I meant is that I had tried all the methods <u>I could think of</u>, i.e. the eject button, COMMAND - E, the eject button in the DVD player application.</p><p></p><p>The only thing that works is various methods of rebooting, which I am hoping can be avoided, in favour of a quicker, simpler method.</p><p></p><p>Some free-standing DVD players have a pinhole to manually force the disk drive to eject.</p><p></p><p>My Mac DOES eventually offer the chance to eject, saying, "You have inserted a blank disk", and it does eject, but not before multiple failed attempts to recognise the disc or the data. It just takes too long (5 - 10 minutes).</p><p></p><p>I have since tried some of the following:</p><p></p><p>1. Press the Eject button on your keyboard - </p><p></p><p>OR</p><p></p><p>2. Click on the Eject button in the menu bar </p><p></p><p>OR</p><p></p><p>3. Press COMMAND-E </p><p></p><p>OR</p><p></p><p>4. Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder </p><p></p><p>At the prompt enter or paste the following: /usr/bin/drutil eject </p><p></p><p>Restart the computer by entering reboot at the prompt </p><p></p><p>[DocumentBodyEnd:dd86a1d0-0993-4884-a9d4-2e31e6734011]</p><p></p><p>OR</p><p></p><p>5. Restart the computer</p><p></p><p>After the chime press and hold down the left mouse button </p><p></p><p>OR</p><p></p><p>6. Boot the computer into Single-user Mode. At the prompt enter the same command as used above in 4.</p><p></p><p>OR</p><p></p><p>7. Reboot the computer holding the option key down</p><p></p><p>Wait for the boot drive options to appear</p><p></p><p>Press the eject key on the keyboard </p><p></p><p>When it's ejected, select your boot drive and click the arrow key to boot up </p><p></p><p>[DocumentBodyEnd:2d37be4f-83b1-4b2a-8799-]e41186f4905d]</p><p></p><p>Restarting or rebooting does work, but I am hoping to avoid rebooting every time I have this problem.</p><p></p><p>Charlie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="charliegriffin, post: 1638412, member: 209371"] [b]DVD drive[/b] Hi bobtomay Yes you're right! Silly me….What I meant is that I had tried all the methods [U]I could think of[/U], i.e. the eject button, COMMAND - E, the eject button in the DVD player application. The only thing that works is various methods of rebooting, which I am hoping can be avoided, in favour of a quicker, simpler method. Some free-standing DVD players have a pinhole to manually force the disk drive to eject. My Mac DOES eventually offer the chance to eject, saying, "You have inserted a blank disk", and it does eject, but not before multiple failed attempts to recognise the disc or the data. It just takes too long (5 - 10 minutes). I have since tried some of the following: 1. Press the Eject button on your keyboard - OR 2. Click on the Eject button in the menu bar OR 3. Press COMMAND-E OR 4. Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder At the prompt enter or paste the following: /usr/bin/drutil eject Restart the computer by entering reboot at the prompt [DocumentBodyEnd:dd86a1d0-0993-4884-a9d4-2e31e6734011] OR 5. Restart the computer After the chime press and hold down the left mouse button OR 6. Boot the computer into Single-user Mode. At the prompt enter the same command as used above in 4. OR 7. Reboot the computer holding the option key down Wait for the boot drive options to appear Press the eject key on the keyboard When it's ejected, select your boot drive and click the arrow key to boot up [DocumentBodyEnd:2d37be4f-83b1-4b2a-8799-]e41186f4905d] Restarting or rebooting does work, but I am hoping to avoid rebooting every time I have this problem. Charlie [/QUOTE]
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