Thread: cd drawer stuck!
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Old 17-09-2005, 16:30   #8
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Re: cd drawer stuck!
The hole should only be used with the power off.
As you push a half-straightened paperclip in, the tray should unlatch and partially eject, and may then be drawn the rest of the way by hand.

The other suggestions are good too, trying the eject button while in the bios is another possibility, if a bad disk is causing a software lock-up.

The price of a current drive, means it's not worth trying too hard to fix an old drive - they DO go down eventually, since thay can suffer mechanical, optical and electronic problems in a single unit ... in fact, it's amazing they work at all!
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