try rebooting?
What have you tried so far? Rebooting might indeed work.
Not knowing the computer, that’s uncertain. However, with Macs, you hold the mouse down when you turn on the computer. The CD tray will slide open.
Some HP-Compaq tower models have a front cover with bottom hinged doors over the optical drive bays. I’ve found the easiest way to access the front of the actual drive is to gently press the very bottom of this door until it moves enough to pull it down from the top. this will expose the drive and you should see the “paper clip hole†you mentioned.
Do you have the drive model/manufacturer?
I put 2 dvd-writers in my PC. Both happen to be Sony and, although they are diffent model numbers, both have a tiny hole for emergency access.
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Reboot.
If that doesn’t allow access. Try loading your CD burner software and use the ‘eject CD’ button/menu command.
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If you are familiar with DOS operatings, you might try running ejectcd.exe from DOS.
http://www.alexnolan.net/software/commandline.htm
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Can you read the CD via your file manager/file explorer?
Cool, I fixed it. Thanks for the help!
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Every CD driver has a tee-tiny, little hole on them, somewhere. Unbend a paper clip and poke it in. Voila.
Every CD driver has a tee-tiny, little hole on them, somewhere. Unbend a paper clip and poke it in. Voila.
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