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My DVD drive got stuck shut a while back. I push the button, I hear it apparently trying to open, but it doesn't. And I know the disc isn't stuck because there isn't one in there. Since I rarely use it and it was a cheap drive to begin with, I didn't really care.
Today my CD drive started doing the same.
Help?
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| | Metal_Man88's Post | I had a cheap CD-rom drive do the same. Try repeatedly to open it, pressing the button and giving it a moment to try each time. If you're lucky, it'll eventually open, giving you the chance to get the CD/DVD out.
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You'll need to replace them, though, unfortunately.
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Dammit, I figured that'd be what I'd have to do.
And my CD drive has my Bloodmoon disc in it. So, this'll be fun.
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It's those motorized trays.  I think one of the earliest CD drives I had didn't have a motorized tray, and you could easily just pop the tray out at any time. These days, they seem to go to great lengths to warn you that not using the normal methods to eject or insert the tray could possibly damage the internals, or something. (Not that my newest tower makes it easy to do it the 'proper' way, oh no...)
Though, these days it's relatively cheap to buy a replacement drive. I guess the flip side of that is the drives also tend to be made more cheaply... certainly seems that way with a large number of DVD players. 
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Yeah, I had some old CD drive that you just pushed in and it would catch on some thing, then pushing it in again would make it pop out. It was pretty neat. Very simple, probably extremely reliable design, and we can't have that! Stuff needs to be complex but cheap and expendable, so it malfunctions in a couple years.
I think another reason for the tray loading drives becoming so common is that the old windows versions would bug out real bad if it was reading the disc, but the tray was forced open, so there was needed some way to lock it in software. I remember this causing a blue screen (crashing some programs) and sometimes a complete hang in win9x.
I wish I could find some not electrical, mechanical disc loading drive. Maybe a current drive could be modded for such a thing. Everything else seems to be in place, other than the lack of a motor and the spring-loaded locking mechanism.
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Originally posted by Orlandu
Most have a pinhole that you can stick a paper clip in to force the tray out enough to where you can pull it the rest of the way.
This one's got that...
But it isn't working.
So when I get a new drive I'm just going to use the old fashioned solution - pry it open with a hammer.
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Originally posted by Joe
The paperclip eject mechanism is often a lever of some kind that moves to the side while you push it, so if the tray isn't fully retracted, your paperclip might be missing it.
No, I found the button in the hole.
Then I heard the motor in the drive start moving.
Maybe this isn't the hole I'm looking for. Oh well. Not terribly important.
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Originally posted by Joe
Originally posted by Stigandr
Then I heard the motor in the drive start moving.
You're supposed to turn the computer off first. 
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Y'know, I probably should've guessed that. Damn I feel stupid now.
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Originally posted by Joe
I doubt the reliability of such an eject mechanism on a disk drive that can spin a CD at 186 rotations per second. (That's 11,200 RPM.) At those speeds, accidentally ejecting the CD would most likely damage the disk.
The drive I had that used that mechanism (and others I've seen like that) were generally all 1X or 2X drives, though. It wouldn't be until years later that I'd experience the infamous disc-flinging-across-the-room, so... 
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