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linka · Jan 10, 2005, 08:06 AM

Like a FOOL I tried to put the mini CD that has the software for my Siemens mobile phone in the front-slot load DVD drive on my G4. Previous threads have suggested solutions to eject problems (hold down trackpad button at startup, etc.) but my drive is not recognizing that there's a disk in (neither on desktop nor in DVD player nor the system profiler / disk utility stuff), since it's the mini kind of disk (which can be hand-placed into the middle of a drive with a slide-out drawer) and it's in there but didn't fall into place to be read as I *idiotically* thought it would.

When I do hold down the trackpad button, there are some weird whirring noises as it looks for something to cough up but it doesn't find anything and gives up.

I don't have a paperclip hole.

Should I trust the *somewhat inferior* authorized repair place in Bulgaria, or what? Did I screw up fatally?

Linka

acadian · Jan 10, 2005, 09:24 AM

This has been discussed several times. You will most likely have to take it to an authorized repair centre, but yeah, you are pretty much fubbard...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88275

linka · Jan 10, 2005, 12:56 PM

It was suggested that I try the restart-holding-down-trackpad-button while holding the powerbook UPSIDE-DOWN, and lo and behold this worked! The stupid little disk is out, and the stupid person who put it in there learned her lesson, this time....

GSixZero · Jan 10, 2005, 02:01 PM

Wow. You're lucky. When my friend did that it was $650+ to fix it. Consider yourself lucky.

SSharon · Jan 10, 2005, 02:51 PM

for the record (for people that make this mitake in the future and search here) I think they sell a CD caddy device that will hold odd sized disks in normal CD sized very thin cases that you can insert normally into slot loading drives. I don't have a link at the moment, but someone here may have some more info on them.

Wiskedjak · Jan 10, 2005, 03:03 PM

Originally posted by linka:
It was suggested that I try the restart-holding-down-trackpad-button while holding the powerbook UPSIDE-DOWN, and lo and behold this worked! The stupid little disk is out, and the stupid person who put it in there learned her lesson, this time....

Try it again to see if the restart-holding-down-trackpad-button-while-holding-the-powerbook UPSIDE-DOWN method will work everytime

TailsToo · Jan 11, 2005, 10:06 AM

Originally posted by linka:
It was suggested that I try the restart-holding-down-trackpad-button while holding the powerbook UPSIDE-DOWN, and lo and behold this worked! The stupid little disk is out, and the stupid person who put it in there learned her lesson, this time....

Wait now, did you put it in or someone else? Are we passing blame here?

Beryl · 05:33 AM

Linka, Congratulation! Same kind of thing happened to me with one of my Al Stewart CDs on Jan 3rd around 13:30.
After several attempts to rescue Al in ways learned from manual guides, I brought my Power Book to Apple's bar on Ginza Street. They made me wait an hour and 40 minutes, while I took a walk around a department store in front of Apple, tasted a custard pudding at a tea room of Maxim's.....
At 16:40, I showed my Book to a Genius finally. I thrilled to have a chance to see inside of my Book for the first time..., but,oh, after less than 40 seconds from her (lady genius/genia ? )finger touched on somewhere on the body. Al's disc slided out from the slit.
The disk was not flat. So my walk for a few hours had some good effect to change the angle or something.