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9 Responses to “Eject a CD/DVD from a Mac (Mini)”

1. 1 Dan
   Mar 28th, 2006 at 8:15 am

   …or buy an Apple keyboard and press “eject”

   And another bonus is that the keys will be labelled correctly. When I tried a PC keyboard with mine the apparent layout was the same as for an Apple keyboard (i.e. similar to the US), unlike the keyboard I was using at the time. Much confusion.

2. 2 Simon
   Mar 28th, 2006 at 8:20 am

   Hi Dan! Yes, much confusion. I finally settled on a combination of DoubleCommand and setting the keyboard to “British windows” in OsX, but it certainly caused some head scratching at the time.

3. 3 derwan
   Jun 12th, 2006 at 4:26 am

   Perfect pages… tnx

4. 4 westsan
   Oct 14th, 2006 at 9:09 am

   Im having no luck with either on a MS contoured keyboard.

   I will just pull out the old mac keyboard

5. 5 westsan
   Oct 14th, 2006 at 9:55 am

   Doesnt work with a wireless keyboard either.
   It also says hit F12 or eject buton during startup but it does not work w/a wireless.

6. 6 clicclic
   Sep 6th, 2007 at 11:47 pm

   Is a Tiger (Mac OSX 10.4) DVD stuck in the CD/DVD drive? And you have a headless Mac Mini (no monitor)?

   Plug in a Mac keyboard and follow these helpful steps (thank you Simon!):

   Reboot the Mac Mini, then keep pressing the Eject CD button (the top right key on a Mac keyboard) until the CD/DVD ejects. Phew!

   To reboot a Mac Mini the “hard” way, press and hold in on the power button on the back of the little machine until the power light goes off. This may take 8-10 seconds. Now press the power key quickly a second time to start up the Mac Mini. Immediately start pressing the Eject key.

   If your keyboard doesn’t have an eject key, this page says F12 serves a similar function. I havent tried it and am not sure.

   Now to research how to install Tiger on a 1.25Ghz G4 Mac Mini (early 2005) version…

7. 7 ssholloway
   Dec 17th, 2007 at 1:58 am

   Clicclic–
   Thank you, thank you! You are a lifesaver with your suggestion to keep pressing the eject button on the keyboard while booting. Phew is right. I was just about to attack the case with putty knives when I found your post.
   One favor desires another, I did an archive and install of Tiger on my 1.42Ghz G4 Mini with no problems. I then just moved applications from the “previous systems” directory where necessary. Actually a lot easier than trying to eject the CD!
   Cheers!

8. 8 moonofnile
   Dec 29th, 2007 at 4:00 am

   Thank you! Really helpful.

9. 9 Richard
   Apr 25th, 2008 at 11:27 pm

   Thanks a lot really helpful… good to see the internet isn’t all theives and porn barons

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