Hold down F12 for 2 seconds to eject a CD or DVD. Especially useful for those situations where the CD/DVD icon hasn’t appeared on the desktop for some reason.
Eject a CD/DVD from a Mac (Mini)
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19 responses to “Eject a CD/DVD from a Mac (Mini)”
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…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.
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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.
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Perfect pages… tnx
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Im having no luck with either on a MS contoured keyboard.
I will just pull out the old mac keyboard
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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. -
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…
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In my case (windows keyboard) the F12 didn’t work, but the “esc”-button did…
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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!
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Thank you! Really helpful.
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Thanks a lot really helpful… good to see the internet isn’t all theives and porn barons
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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 -
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.
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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)
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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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Command+Option+O+F during startup, ejectcd
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We struggled through this and called the Apple store and they told us to hold the right mouse button down while starting up.
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F12 FTW FIXED!!!! THANKS!!!
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For those of you with wireless keyboards, holding the right mouse button during boot will also work. Thanks guys.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH! I AM SAVED!!!!
Awhile back I had deleted a bunch of programs on my mac for some reason,( ithink it was to create more disk space) and now I do not have any of the mac programs really…In an attempt to restore my mac to factory setting, I could not find the Mac Mini install disk, so i tried using an install disk from a newer mac computer, and when I restarted the computer like the instructions told me to, a bunch of weird error code came up and a little message said: “RESTART YOUR COMPUTER NOW!!.” I NEEDED TO EJECT THAT CD FAST!!
I was about to rip open my mac and pull the cd out with tweezers!!
The right mouse button did it for me!Your a life saver, thanks
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