At times when you insert a disc or disk it can get stuck inside in Macs optical drive. But there are some simple methods to sort this problem. This may be due to the quality of the disk or the optical drive not been to read correctly a faulty CD.
First before attempting to eject the CD ROM or disc, try ejecting by
1. Holding down the eject key
2. Dragging the disc icon to your Mac’s trash bin
3. Right-click on the disc icon and select eject
4. Press Command and E
5. Boot your Mac into single-user mode. At the prompt enter /usr/bin/drutil eject.
To restart the computer, enter “reboot” at the prompt without the quotation marks.
6. Hold down your trackpad button (or your left mouse button) and restart your Mac. Hold the button down until the desktop appears. This will trigger the system to eject your disc before macOS begins loading.
7.Shut down the Mac and restart it, then let it sit for 15 minutes. After a short amount of time, the disc may eject itself.
if this does not work, Click the launch pad icon and open terminal window
8. Launch the terminal app and use the following command and then press enter:
/usr/bin/drutil eject
To force eject the disk. press enter after typing in the code in the terminal window
While optical discs are conventionally phasing out of fashion or obsolete in design especially in more recent Macs, especially within Apple products, many Apple users still own, retain or retro own these products with optical drives – and at some point a disc may probably get stuck in that drive. Here are some troubleshooting tips that may be deployed.
Even when Apple has slowly phased out optical drives from it’s Mac lineup over the years, you might still have a MacBook or desktop Mac with a disc drive or a refurbished preowned Mac.
If perchance, a CD, DVD or Blu-Ray disc gets stuck in your Macs external optical drive. The video shows how you can eject the disc using the Terminal window with minimum hassle.
