[DuckRacer1]

I have a CD in the CD Drive, yet it's not showing up on the finder/desktop, nor can I eject it with the Eject key. I'm using a new intel iMac. Is there any way to pop the disc out of the drive manually?

[boilermaker]

With my iMac, which has a slot loading CD drive, I hold the left mouse button while booting, this initiates CD eject. There is also a little hole on the right side of the slot, where I depress with a blunt object (e.g. paper clip), it feels like it is depressing a microswitch that initiates a CD eject. If you hear the eject mechanism but CD is stuck, gently pushing another CD into slot against seated CD in the drive, during a manual eject aids the CD to pop out.
(also see apple's documents on manual eject CD)

[icath]

Sorry about your problem but I recognise the part about about no CD on desktop.
I still don't know why this has happned and I can't listen to music or burn discs, so any help you get will also help me. Good luck!

[DuckRacer1]

Originally Posted by boilermaker 

With my iMac, which has a slot loading CD drive, I hold the left mouse button while booting, this initiates CD eject. There is also a little hole on the right side of the slot, where I depress with a blunt object (e.g. paper clip), it feels like it is depressing a microswitch that initiates a CD eject. If you hear the eject mechanism but CD is stuck, gently pushing another CD into slot against seated CD in the drive, during a manual eject aids the CD to pop out.
(also see apple's documents on manual eject CD)

Yep, holding the left mouse button worked wonders for me. Thanks.

[Atheist]

Typing "drutil eject" from the command line always works for me.