Disc drive won't let me put a disc in, nothing in there

Press and hold the mouse or trackpad button down when you power it on and keep holding it down. This forces a disk eject, or at least tells the mechanism to to go through its eject cycle. This may move the mechanism to it's fully open position for you.

There are sometines screws on the top of the unit that are to be taken out before installing. It's usually clearly marked to take them out but possibly the label was missing when the unit was installed

I find this is due to iTunes failing to unmount the disc or something, even after it successfully ejects it. Thereafter you need to reboot in order to insert a disc. My workaround: quit iTunes before ejecting a disc. then Eject via finder. The restart iTunes. Disc loads no problem.

I have a HP 'puter with a 'Tower' ,. One CD/DVD disk drawer would not open when button was pushed. Go to 'COMPUTER' and click on it and a selection of various drives will appear on your 'puter. EXP~~ A drive, B drive, C drive etc etc. Determine which drive icon will not slide out and RIGHT click on the icon. A box drops down . Select 'EJECT' and it should open with ease.

Solved: Just press Eject button for 10-20 Second until "CD In" disappear. That is it. Don t make it complicated. It worked for me

just remove the sata/ide cable then press cd/dvd drive open button

thats will worked for me.

this is happening to me too! GAHHH! so annoying. so i tried the terminal thing and i just typed drutil tray eject a bajillion times. each time it made a different noise but after i typed it twenty or so times it stopped and still wouldn't let me put the DVD in. i have a pretty old macbook but i feel like at least something should solve this problem!

I tried this 30 + times but it didn't work. Bought an external drive now!

I have an external drive that has the above problem. So: no disk in drive, drive unplugged: I gently tapped the drive on the desk with the opening DOWN about five times. Then I dragged a SMALL nail just past the opening to try and pull out anything that may have been dislodged. Nothing came out. So I did it again. Still nothing came out. So I popped a disc in that I didn't care about into the drive and BINGO... It accepted it!

Hope this helps someone. - Lindy

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I tried every to take apart and visually inspect my iMac nada good idea. after 2 hours and a whole lot of frustration I opened Terminal and entered a new command this - drutil tray eject - as suggested. 20 seconds later I was free at last. Out popped the unreadable disc. It didn't even show up on my desktop. Wowee. Thank you, thank you.

I tried everything and nothing worked. I found the answer in the comment section by dewolfeinsheepsclothes. Restart the computer. While restarting hold the eject key (Top right on mac). Hold until the desk top appears, quickly put in a cd. Finally after months I can burn cd’s again.

I tried over 50-60xs still not able to insert CD into the my 2009 MacBook Pro SuperDrive 😞☹️

These were the steps I took:

Applications->Utilities->Terminal->Shell->New Command->drutil tray eject (heard few tiny clicks but that was it). Tried to insert CD but still unable to…CD goes in about 1/4 way then like hitting a wall 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Please let me know if I missed some steps or any other suggestions would greatly appreciated!!!

Thank you so much!!!

There is a simple cause for this. Its a result of failure of the OPTICAL DRIVE, and needs to be either replaced, or SOMETIMES I'm able to take cover off, clean and lubricate areas of the drive, and save the optical drive. it just depends if the drive is going to be cooperative. SO WHY? when you put a cd/dvd in these drives, an arm comes up that prevents another disk from being inserted. One of the many types of failures with these drives, the arm will malfunction and the arm will come up and you cannot insert a disk in the unit, even though it's empty.

If you take the unit apart, you'll see what I'm talking about and you may be able to lubricate this so that it returns to normal function. if you go to my website you can purchase repair and send it to me, or just send to me and ill give you a free estimate