So, let’s see. No force eject on my iBook, so I have to go to an apple store to get a DVD out of the freaking drive. Strike 1. My iPod just started grinding on updating and freezing, at a very high temperature. Strike 2. Not looking good for the home team.
I’m pretty sure you’ve been asked this already, but have you tried holding down the eject button while restarting?
Another suggestion is a force reboot (control-command-power) and hold down the trackpad button while the machine is booting back up.
Yeah, they can be lame sometimes.
What he said. If the disc is not physically trapped in the machine, this is the same as the older machines when you’d hold down the mouse button to eject on reboot.
And I hate to say it, but a paperclip force-eject button can horribly abuse your hardware. Many drives were broken by people using it too often in clusters – I’m glad I don’t have to see that anymore.
I love this quote:
Gay people are like Macs. Everything starts with “I,” they look better, they’re trendier, they cost more, they’re more user friendly … and their hard drive gets a lot more spin.
Regarding the ‘pod, try a reboot of the ‘pod itself. On my model that is that by holding down the play and menu buttons for a few seconds. You might also want to check that there is no damange to the cables or the connections.
it may be obvious to some, but not to me.. so i’ll ask.
why apple in the first place?
ehh, stuff breaks. If they do a good job repairing/replacing things, I don’t see what’s wrong with them.