To eject the CD hold down the mouse button while booting the computer. Then get a CD cleaning disk from Radio Shack or other Electronics store. It is a CD with a small brush attached which will clean the laser lens which is most likely your problem. On Oct 2, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Mandy Stinson wrote: > if anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly > appriciate it. I have a Mac G4 Titanium laptop > (500mhz, 768 ram, running Mac OS 10.3.9). > Today the cd-drive quit reading the cd's. I put the cd > into the slot loading drive and it goes in but nothing > happens. Sometimes it spits the cd back out and > sometimes it just holds onto it, but never loads the > disc. What to do? i am really ina crunch to get this > fixed because I am a graphic designer and havea > project sitting on a disc that I cannot access. > > Please help! > mandy