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#1 2009-09-22 5:55 pm
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CD stuck in Late 2007 13" macbook
My sister has got one of those slot loading macbooks without the CD emergency eject pinhole. Is there a way of getting a stuck CD-R out without disassembly?
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#2 2009-09-23 8:51 am
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Re: CD stuck in Late 2007 13" macbook
Sometimes pushing down on the disk with some sort of slim object while the disk is trying to eject works.
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#3 2009-09-23 9:03 am
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Re: CD stuck in Late 2007 13" macbook
You can usually snag it with a piece of double-sided tape on a business card.
edit: when the drive is trying to eject, I mean
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#4 2009-09-23 12:11 pm
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Re: CD stuck in Late 2007 13" macbook
If you have a flat piece of plastic (like a strong plastic knife) you can twist just inside the disk opening to make the bezel spread while trying to eject the disk. Then when the disk goes to eject, remove the knife and grab the disc.
You can force the drive to try to eject by holding down the trackpad button on boot.
Good luck!
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#5 2009-09-23 12:51 pm
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Re: CD stuck in Late 2007 13" macbook
She tweezed it out, eventually.
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