can anyone help?
2006-12-24 02:11:32 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Perhaps. What operating system are you running? If you are run Linux or a Unix variant, it may be that the disk is "mounted" and won't eject unless unmounted. Try the command "eject" or "eject cdrom." If that doesn't work, try shutting down your computer, and hitting the eject button as it's restarting.
For Windows, also try the restarting trick.
Most, but not all, CDROM drives have a small hole in the face plate, under the disk drawer. Insert a stiff wire, like a straighted paper clip into the hole, and you can force the drawer to unlatch. It may take some fishing around to find the right spot to push.
Good luck.
2006-12-24 02:21:36 · answer #1 · answered by DavidNH 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it's a CD or DVD that's stuck, look for the pinhole below the CD tray and use an unfurled paper clip and press it in there. If it's a floppy disk that you have stuck, don't, whatever you do grab it with anything and pull it out. This will only bend the read heads out of alignment. You'll need to take the floppy drive apart. (No doubt, you'll find that the metal flap has come loose, or twisted in some manner.)
2006-12-24 11:33:09 · answer #2 · answered by micksmixxx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There should be a Pin-Hole near the disc drive-You need to carefully insert a Needle or paper clip.
This will manually eject the Disc.
Or try restarting the machine-normally pops out on Boot-up!
2006-12-24 02:14:50 · answer #3 · answered by J. Charles 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Restart computer,hold button in for disc tray at the same time
2006-12-24 08:17:06 · answer #4 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You didn't say whether it was a CD or a floppy. I once had to open my tower because a floppy had jammed in the drive. Wasn't hard to fix, although the disc was knackered. The metal slide had gotten distorted somehow and I had to get the drive out to sort it but it wasn't difficult.
2006-12-24 04:45:16 · answer #5 · answered by biker_mouse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe no-one said pray! where are the god mob when you need them for something practical. O.k try the restart and then the pin-hole if that doesn't work.
You sometimes get this problem if you have a bad disc that the pc can't read properly, it just keeps trying to load it.
2006-12-24 02:35:56 · answer #6 · answered by Jack c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do the discs paintings once you open up My workstation and double click on the rigidity to function some ingredient is on the disc? If no longer, this is a rigidity downside and likewise you oftentimes desire a replace. if so, your motor vehicle play characteristic oftentimes has been grew to grow to be off.
2016-11-23 15:03:01 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree fully with J. Charles
just be careful, it looks like the CD is jammed against something preventing it to reopen.
2006-12-24 04:15:39 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both the paper clip & the turn off & turn on methods work...assuming the CD is sat correctly in the tray.
2006-12-24 02:18:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
get a paper clip and poke it into the little hole you see on the front of the drive, this will make the trya open up.
2006-12-24 02:15:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋