With your head at eye level with the ZIP slot, you should see a small hole like the ones on CD drives.
Insert a straightened paper clip, preferably a strong one, and push. The ZIP disk should come out.
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Although this is about hardware, it really is a continuation of my saga about burning CDs. Read and weep!
A while back, wanting to burn an emergency CD of Disk Warrior, I bought a new SuperDrive recommended by a solicitous reader of my message to this forum. I had decided, in the end, to have professionals install it, but when they didn't get back to me, I took Apple's instructions in hand and went at it. How I wish I hadn't!
First, the SuperDrive model I got doesn't fit the available drive space, and it has feet, something I didn't know would further inhibit installation. I learned all that only after I had taken everything apart. I am hoping that I can exchange the drive, but after a trip of mercy to Virginia and waiting for the techs to reply, I kind of doubt they'll do that. I shall try, however, throwing myself on their mercy as I ask which drive I really need.
I then put the CD/DVD drive and Zip drive back as instructed (though some screws on the drive chassis wouldn't stay in (quite a mystery). I was relieved that the old CD/DVD drive still worked -- it was murder getting it in and out -- but the Zip drive isn't recognized, and I have a Zip disk in the computer that I can't get out. I've checked the connections, and they seem just fine, but no go. The light by the drive blinks when I boot up or press on the disk in the drive, but no icon appears on the desktop, which would seem to mean that my Mac doesn't know the drive (or the disk in it) is there.
I can't use Disk Warrior. Even though I still have OS 9 on the computer (Sawtooth AGP G4 desktop), Disk Warrior won't repair the disk, assuming that there actually are things that would allow me to get to the Zip drive, if repaired. It tells me that I have a more up-to-date OS on my Mac, which is totally correct, of course. I have Tiger. It wants the emergency disk that I wanted to burn when I first started my thread in this forum on Disk Warrior. Catch-22.
Any ideas? I don't mean for this to be a pity party. It's just that after hours of working on the computer doing something that should have taken a much shorter time, I'm still upset and exhausted, the following morning. (Among other things the drive chassis and drive fit terribly tightly and awkwardly into the space allotted, the connections for cables are awkward, and the screws were very tight indeed.) Losing my Zip drive is the last straw. I need advice. I guess I can always forget about the Zip drive and use the portable one I have, but I'd really need to get my Zip disk out, at the very least. Holding down the mouse button while booting up doesn't work.
Thanks for your patience, everyone. I know that this is tedious, at best.
jenny

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