Ejecting a disk

This may sound like a noobish question and most probably is but I'm having trouble getting the disk out of my drive. I normally right click on the desktop or press the eject button but it isn't showing up on the desktop or in Disk Utility and the Eject button doesn't work!

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,

Matt I

 

isn't there a key on the keyboard?

 

Make sure you hold down the eject key on your keyboard for at least a second if you want to eject a disc that way.

 

There are many ways to Eject discs:

1. Press the Eject key next to F12 (or the Eject key on an external Apple Keyboard)
2. Select the disc and press Command + E
3. Right-Click the disc and select Eject
4. Drag the disc into the Trash
5. Hold down the Trackpad (or Mouse or Eject) button during startup
6. Use Disk Utility
7. Go to System>Library>Core Services>Menu Extras and double-click Eject.menu, then click the Eject icon in the Menu Bar. You can remove this icon by holding Command and dragging it onto the Desktop.
8. Open Terminal (Applications>Utilities) and type "drutil eject" without quotation marks and press Return

I probably forgot a few. If none of these methods work you can try resettign the PRAM and/or SMC. For more informatio see, Troubleshooting the slot load disc drive.

 

Thanks everyone. It was only typing drutil eject in terminal which actually worked - one stubborn disk!

 

Wow, that's weird...did you try another disc and see if it happens again?

 

Sometimes a disc just gets stuck and OS X forgets it's in there.

One thing you can do to eject a disk is restart while holding down your mouse button. Just keep it held until it pops out. This is what I do when even drutil doesn't work.