Solve : cd drive won't eject?

1.	Solve : cd drive won't eject?
Answer» Hope someone can shed some LIGHT please with this problem. recently my cd drive has been operating quite erratic , it seems to work problem free most TIMES then quite recently it has started acting up, not burning properly , not reading media-data and now it has a blank Cd and it won't eject. I don't want to switch it off as it would boot from the DISC drive and then i would be really stuck.so if anyone can HELP i would most appreciate it many thanx in advance If the CD is blank it won't boot from it.The emergency method to open a CD/DVD drive is to straighten out a paper clip... Then look for a small hole in the front of the drive and insert the clip there and press... This woeks with or without power,Quote from: PATIO on September 15, 2007, 07:08:52 PM The emergency method to open a CD/DVD drive is to straighten out a paper clip... Then look for a small hole in the front of the drive and insert the clip there and press... This woeks with or without power, Heh, I just had to do this earlier today, with the laptop CD/DVD ROM drive out of the computer no less! I had to get mine replaced so Dell sent me a new one, and anways, after replacing it I realized I had forgotten to check for CD! And sure ENOUGH, there was one in there.note: this trick never fails to impress. That's the only "MAC" toll I carry. Alan <><

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Hope someone can shed some LIGHT please with this problem.
recently my cd drive has been operating quite erratic , it seems to work problem free most TIMES then quite recently it has started acting up, not burning properly , not reading media-data and now it has a blank Cd and it won't eject.
I don't want to switch it off as it would boot from the DISC drive and then i would be really stuck.so if anyone can HELP i would most appreciate it
many thanx in advance If the CD is blank it won't boot from it.The emergency method to open a CD/DVD drive is to straighten out a paper clip...
Then look for a small hole in the front of the drive and insert the clip there and press...
This woeks with or without power,Quote from: PATIO on September 15, 2007, 07:08:52 PM

The emergency method to open a CD/DVD drive is to straighten out a paper clip...
Then look for a small hole in the front of the drive and insert the clip there and press...
This woeks with or without power,

Heh, I just had to do this earlier today, with the laptop CD/DVD ROM drive out of the computer no less! I had to get mine replaced so Dell sent me a new one, and anways, after replacing it I realized I had forgotten to check for CD! And sure ENOUGH, there was one in there.note: this trick never fails to impress. That's the only "MAC" toll I carry.

Alan <><

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