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13 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

10. 10 tecavüz
    Jul 27th, 2008 at 10:25 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

11. 11 jiks
    Jul 28th, 2008 at 11:31 am

    i have iMac and could not eject CD/DVD either using any of the command like holding F12, Mouse and Eject buttom. so what could be the other alternative.
    thanks

12. 12 marc
    Aug 15th, 2008 at 12:10 am

    Hi, fantastic, worked (pressing eject key with mac keyboard) I had erased the harddisk with the original os 10.4 and put in a cd from another mini (10.5) and it would not boot and not eject (because it started up from the 10.5 disk)
    This worked thanks

13. 13 simonwheatley
    Aug 15th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    Hi jjks - Unfortunately I don’t know of another way, which is not to say that there isn’t another way. Sorry I (we) couldn’t help.

    Hi Marc - Glad to be of assistance.

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