Hey, I have a CD-R stuck in my drive and it's still writing the lead-out for all I know. Can somebody tell me how to get it out without shutting down? It's still in there, I don't want to shut down.
Somewhere on the front bezel of the drive you'll see a pinhole, push a paperclip in it and the disc will eject. This is the manual eject for the drive
shatter the drive or the cd? Anyway, thanks, I finally shut down but I ran into the problem again and took your advice -- hope I haven't worn down any machine parts.
happened to me once, i was loading software on a customer's computer when the cd exploded into pieces. had to take drive apart to clean all the pieces out & drive still worked afterwards
That would be to shatter the CD. I've yet to see a shattered drive, and don't really care to, because it'll more than likely be mine!! ddp, is correct, it's a $@#$'in MESS!!
SHATTERED!!! Your kidding right....oh my lord That actually can happen???? Never heard of that. But did once get a cd stuck, but just shut down and restarted, before it booted up hit the eject button.
the disk just exploded in the drive as i think it was spinning out of control. darn near scared the shit out of me when it went off. there was plastic & aluminum all over the inside of the drive from the cd so had to take drive apart to clean the pieces of the cd out. so yes it does happen & so far only once in 10yrs with a cd drive too
On a softer note, it is a good idea to check disks before they go in, because all it takes is a hairline crack in one and BAM! Especially when there our younger ones around that have assess to disks. They really do make quite a projectile when forced in the air against a wall!!! LOL
LOL! So what is being said here...is that we need safety glasses if we are going to be on the computer.... j/k.
