Printed DVD Stuck in iMac Drive

Dan_the_man · 29 Jul 2008 at 22:52

Hi,
Inserted a printed DVD into the imac tonight, the buggers got stuck :eek:

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Tried inserting a credit card and fishing about in it, and i think i might of damaged the drive now doing that haha.

I was wondering would i be able to get this sorted on the apple warrenty, or perhaps at the purple shirt store where i purchased?

Cheers for the help in advance

syke · 29 Jul 2008 at 22:56

When booting try holding down the left/right (cant remember) mouse button.

Dan_the_man · 29 Jul 2008 at 22:58

Tried it, seems well untruly stuck. Weird as label is unbelievably thin.

RobH · 29 Jul 2008 at 23:38

I don't put anything with a stuck on label in my MacBook after a similar incident. Luckily in my case I was able to get the disc to eject so that the spindle was disengaged from the hole in the disc, after that I shut down the macbook and shook it with the drive faced down with some force. I managed to get a few milimeters to stick out and then pulled it with some pliers. I'm not sure if you could try shaking it out of your iMac but it is somewhat larger than a macbook.

Dan_the_man · 30 Jul 2008 at 10:22

Waited for the blood pressure to decrease, woke up this morning and did the boot up with mouse held in... popped out straight away!

Cheers

deano · 31 Jul 2008 at 21:25

must have come away from the disk with being warm, cooled overnight re-stuck enouhg to come out

syke · 31 Jul 2008 at 23:45

Dan_the_man said:
Waited for the blood pressure to decrease, woke up this morning and did the boot up with mouse held in... popped out straight away!

Cheers

Aye, need to boot down to do it.