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How to put smaller cd in my iBook?

 
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Hi,

I have iBook 14'' and it has a slot cd drive. So I have to insert the cd in it rather than a tray coming out and I put my cd on the tray and tray goes inside. Now, recently I got this smaller cd and I wonder how do I put that into my slot cd drive? The bigger cd it takes by sensing it but would it take the smaller cd same way?

I don't want to put a cd in there and realize that iBook ate it and soon I am finding myself running around apple store to see how the hack I get the cd out

I hope you understand my problem here without starting war on apple/windows...

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Maulin
 
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Windows doesn't force you to use fullsize CDs like Apple does.
In fact Windows doesn't care whether your drive supports small CDs or not. Come to think, I don't think Mac OS cares either, it's Apple's choice of stylish rather than functional hardware that causes your problem.
There are (or used to be) slotloading drives for PCs as well which had the same problem. Haven't seen any in years though, maybe Apple bought them all to make sure of having a supply for the next decade

I seem to remember there being plastic thingies you could put a small CD in which would fool the drive into thinking you were loading a regular size CD with just the inner part filled with data.
Maybe those still exist.
 
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Yep, you can get a plastic holder, that will hold your small cd.

That is what I use for my small cds, and they work fine!
 
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Thank you people.

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Maulin
 
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