Failure to eject CD tray

[Mthales]

Hi,
I have a very annoying problem in that I can not make my PC eject a CD.

I did the normal thing of pressing the button on the front of the CD drive and nothing. So I tried the software root of right clicking on the icon for the CD and selecting Eject but again nothing. So in desperation I've tried sticking a pin in the hole on the front of the CD drive (the "emergency tray release" or whatever it's called) and also nothing. The drive is still functioning correctly in that I can access all the files on the CD ok, it just won't "spit it out!"

The strange thing is that my PC had this problem a couple of weeks ago when I was accessing data from this same CD and I thought the drive had broken so I replaced it.

Please does anyone have any ideas?
M

Trainee Chocolate Management Executive.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Do a restart, soon as the computer starts loading press the button then and try ejecting. Let us know if this helps.

 

[Mthales]

Thanks electronics freak - I did restart the computer and as you suggest this did allow me to get the CD out of the tray.

But what I really was asking for was weather anyone had any ideas on why this was happening? It does only seem to happen when I have this one CD in the drive so could it be something to do with the way it was burned or could it be some software that I have loaded?
Thanks
M

Trainee Chocolate Management Executive.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Honestly not really sure why it happens. It rarely does that with me but sometimes does it. Sorry I couldnt be of more help on that. Maybe someone else on here may know why as I myself wouldnt mind learning why it does it lol.

 

[scottyjohn]

Not sure but I know that I had a problem where I thought I had broken a Solaris server because I couldnt get a CD out! Turns out that the CD had to be unmounted in the OS before it would allow it to be ejected. Maybe there is something along those lines happening?

John
ski_69@hotmail.com

 

[Mthales]

Thanks for the suggestion scottyjohn.

I'm not sure if unmounting is possible in windows2000 terms - can anyone inform me?
But I did make sure that when I tried to eject the CD there was nothing accessing data or directories from it and that all programs that I thought could have been holding a lock on the drive (I mean things like CD authoring software) were shut down.

M

Trainee Chocolate Management Executive.