How can I extract a disk stuck in the drive?

"another way, how to get the disk out is:

restart your computer, right before you hear chimes, hold down your mouse button. hold it, until it spits out the disk...

it works when you have unreadable disk in your drive and youre trying to boot up your computer. i have tried it myself, it works..."

I actually had to go in and extract it manually. But the real problem was that the bezel, the thing that lets it slide in and out, it was bent so, if you can follow the steps to get that out in the guide section, and try to see if the thing is bent, if so, just be fragile, and bend it back into place.

"I used to have that problem with mine. Sometimes the eject button worked (after about the seventh try), sometimes holding the trackpad button down on restart worked...sometimes. When I got a Snow Leopard install disc in there (trying to restore an OS X with pieces missing) which utterly refused to eject under any circumstances, I googled for a solution and finally found something that worked.

It involves a sheet of card stock paper, folded in half, that will mostly cover both the top and the bottom of the disc. You *very gently* work this card into the slot, doing your best to get one half on the card to go over the disc and the other half of the card to go under the disc. As you work the card in, press the eject button to get the system to retract the spindle. You may have to do this several times. Eventually you will have the disc isolated within the fold of the card stock, isolated from the superdrive itself. When you are sure this is the case, gently pull the card stock, along with the DVD, out of the drive.

I'm glad that the reader heads on these optical drives aren't quite as delicate as the ones on hard drives.

I promptly replaced the drive, but the problem persists. This convinces me this is a system problem of some kind."