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I'm trying to install Leopard and my MacBook keeps spitting out the CD. What do I do?

Asked by ldeb (268points) February 21st, 2010
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I am not good with computers, so I need some advice. How can I open a CD before my computer spits it out?

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dpworkin's avatar

Hold its nose.

ldeb's avatar

so no computer geeks on fluther?

dpworkin's avatar

It’s just an odd symptom. Probably more mechanical than anything else. What happens with other disks?

DeanV's avatar

Have you tried holding down alt during boot up and selecting the CD if it stays in?

ldeb's avatar

it spits them all out

dpworkin's avatar

That’s a mechanical problem with your drive. I suggest you swap it out or run the install disk from a usb CD/ROM

ldeb's avatar

@dverhey just tried holding down alt after I put the CD in and it still spit it out. It doesn’t show up in finder… so how would I select it?

DeanV's avatar

No luck then. It’s a drive issue. Is it a new computer?

dpworkin's avatar

You can get a drive to swap. Or borrow a USB drive. Or even make a bootable image of Leopard on a thumb drive, and boot from that.

ldeb's avatar

@dpworkin how do I make a bootable image? do I have to go to another computer?

dpworkin's avatar

Not if you use a thumb drive. But I don’t know the details for Unix, only Windows. Sorry.

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