<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Tut wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Lucida Grande, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">Thanks Bob, but I have used all software methods I know of.<BR> I am now looking for a way to remove it by hand.<BR> <BR> <BR> Bob wrote:<BR> </SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter">1) Restart the computer and hold down the mouse button. This should <BR> eject the cd<BR> 2) restart holding down the option key. This will put you into a <BR> window showing all bootable drives. Here you should be able to push <BR> the eject key on your keyboard and this should eject the disk.<BR> 3) I believe there are utilities on the web to force eject a disk.<BR> Hope that this helps. Bob</FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Place a paper clip in the tiny hole at the front of the CD Drive.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Peter</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.apockotos.com">http://www.apockotos.com</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.knightrider.org">http://www.knightrider.org</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.macmariner.com">http://www.macmariner.com</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>