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UIS Tip of the Week: Can't Eject Your Disc from Your Mac Computer? Use the Disk Utility

The other day I inserted a CD into the disc drive of my Mac computer, all set to review some important documents from my boss. So imagine my surprise when, as I waited and waited, no disc icon appeared on my desktop! What was I going to do now? How was I going to read the documents, and then remove the disc from my computer? Would the disc be stuck in the drive for all eternity?

I then discovered the Disk Utility, a handy little program built into my Mac that would enable me to free the disc, and those really important documents, from the confines of the disc drive.

 

  1. Open the Finder.
  2. Select Utilities from the Go menu. The Utilities folder is displayed.

Select Utilities from the Go menu

 

  1. Click on Disk Utility. You'll see a preview of the Disk Utility on the far right of the Utilites window.

Preview of Utilities folder

  1. Double-click on the Disk Utility icon, located in the Preview pane. The Disk Utility gathers information about your drives and then is displayed.

Double-click on the Disk Utility icon to open the Disk Utility

 

  1. Select the listing for your hard drive (in this example, "My Hard Drive"), located on the left side of the Disk Utility window.

Select the listing for your hard drive

  1. Click on the Eject button to eject your disc from the drive.

Click the Eject button to eject your disc
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