Hi Sophia If you have a USB Apple mouse, plug it in any available USB port, click the mouse and hold it down while the Ti is off and start it up. The mouse down on startup is a hardware call to the Mac to eject any removable media on startup Hope this helps Alex On 4 Jan 2005, at 04:33, Alcovia at aol.com wrote: > I have a G4 Titanium 667Mhz, 30Gb Harddrive. > I was installing OSX the 2nd disk when the Combo drive stopped > working. > The CD will not eject and the happy Mac and the wheel of death is the > only thing that shows up when I restart. > > I can't install the OS and I can't eject the CD. My G4 is a paper > weight right now. > > Please advise. > > Sophia > > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium