<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">1) Restart the computer and hold down the mouse button. This should eject the cd<DIV>2) restart holding down the option key. This will put you into a window showing all bootable drives. Here you should be able to push the eject key on your keyboard and this should eject the disk.</DIV><DIV>3) I believe there are utilities on the web to force eject a disk.</DIV><DIV>Hope that this helps. Bob<BR><DIV><DIV>On 19-Nov-05, at 10:03 AM, Tut wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Lucida Grande, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">A CD will not eject no matter what I try. My iMac, a 20 inch I got this june, will not acknowledge it, except after an opt+command+PR restart and not even then will it come out if I eject, or hold down the mouse on restart.<BR> <BR> Does anyone know of a way to mechanically eject it? <BR> I have no trouble getting at the drive.<BR> I would not like to leave that CD in the hands of some tech-guy, it has all my passwords and banking information – I have backups but that is not the point. It is OK if I damage the CD as long as I do not disable the drive. Apple Care will replace it anyway.<BR> <BR> Any help is welcome.<BR> <BR> Tut</SPAN></FONT><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">X4U mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u">http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984">http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Robert Ashton</DIV><DIV>402-1966 Enterprise Way</DIV><DIV>Kelowna, B.C., V1Y 9S8</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:rashton@telus.net">rashton@telus.net</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>