AAARG!! I just broke my CD-RW :( *EDIT: FIXED!! Woohoo!!!!* Joemonkey da man! er, monkey!

[iamme]

The tray opened after I burned a disc, and right then someone called me so I turned in my chair, causing my leg to bump into the tray real hard. Horror-sticken, I closed the tray and it won't open now!

Dammit.

 

[Smolek]

have you tried the force method with sticking a pin in the little hole ?

 

[dakata24]

that sucks! and it's probably cheaper/easier to just buy a new 40x + than send it in for warranty work..

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: Smolek
have you tried the force method with sticking a pin in the little hole ?

yeah, tried that. i feel the little "lever" get pushed, but it doesn't help.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: dakata24
that sucks! and it's probably cheaper/easier to just buy a new 40x + than send it in for warranty work..

you're right. i wonder if they'll send me a new one under warranty? it's a Cendyne, that's actually a Verbatim (which is a Lite-on ). Maybe I'll try calling. But CD burners are so cheap it might be easier just to buy a new one.

Dammit. Dammit all to heck.

 

[RossMAN]

If it is beyond repair or too expensive, fortunately 24x and 40x CD-RWs are selling for FREE or $19.99 after coupon and rebate(s).

 

[d33pt]

open it up and realign the gears.. you should be ok... or sell it to me for $10... seriously i need another cdr

 

[iamme]

what sucks is that I have two of these in my PC to burn two copies of things simultaneously. I purposely bought two of the exact same CD drives so I wouldn't run into any weird problems. Baaaaah.

Before I buy a new one, i'll probably try to force it open and see if I can realign, like d33pt suggested.

 

[Joemonkey]

I fix lite-on CDRWs at work all the time... when someone pulls the face of a case off the wrong way, the tray gets jammed out a bit. If you trust yourself, here's what you do:

use a flathead screwdriver or something similar to wedge out the tray enough to grab, then pull it out (gently... you'll hear gears grinding but that's OK) until it stops. Then, take off the CDRW faceplate. There are 4 tabs, one on each side of the CDRW case near the front. I usually poke in the tabs on top and sides first, then bottom, but no matter which way you go the last tab will be a bit difficult to push in

OK so now you have the faceplate off but it won't fit over the tray? that's because I forgot a step... the rectangle on the end of the tray comes of by pushing each side up carefully...

so now you have the tray face and the CDRW faceplate off, and the tray all the way out... OK this will be weird but here goes... put the tray in your mouth, and bite down on it enough to get some leverage. Use a long pokey thing (i use those little bitty laptop flathead screwdrivers) and on the RIGHT side inside the CDRW, you should see a little cylinder with a tab attached to the tray behind it. Push that tab up, and with your mouth kinda pull it over they cylinder and hold it. If you don't hold it, it will go back behind the cylinder. Now you should see a relase on the far right side where the tray is in the CDRW, push THIS tab to the left, and the tray should pop out

NOW, use your finger and move the black gear (looks like 1/3 of a total gear) back and forth like 3 or 4 times. Put the tray back in, making sure it catches in the 2 spots you took it out of, and that the black cylinder coming off the 1/3 gear matches with the little groove in the tray. Put the CDRW faceplate back on, then the little faceplate for the tray, hook some power up, and it should go back in just fine. Press eject a few times to prove it to yourself.

Now, one that we had wouldn't go in ALL the way by themselves. They would go in 99% of the way and kind of make a grinding sound... all we had to do was push the the tray a tiny bit and it would work fine. We ended up using these for in house computers...


[edit]Edited for horrid tired spelling...[/edit]

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
I fix lite-on CDRWs at work all the time... when someone pulls the face of a case off the wrong way, the tray gets jammed out a bit. If you trust yourself, here's what you do:

use a screwdriver or something to wedge out the tray enough to grab, and pull it out (gently... you'll hear gears grinding but that's OK) until it stops. Then, take off the CDRW faceplate. There are 4 tabs, one on each side of the CDRW case near the front. I usually poke in the tabs on top and sides first, then bottom, but no matter which way you go the last tab will be a bit difficult to push in

OK so now you have the faceplate off but it won't fit over the tray? that's because I forgot a step... the rectangle on the end of the tray comes of by pushing each side up carefully...

so now you have the tray face and the CDRW faceplate off, and the tray all the way out... OK this will be weird but here goes... put the tray in your mouth, and bite down on it enough to get some leverage. Use a long pokey thing (i use those little bitty laptop flathead screwdrivers) and on the RIGHT side inside the CDRW, you should see a little cylinder with a tab attached to the tray behind it. Push that tab up, and with your mouth kinda pull it over they cylinder and hold it. If you don't hold it, it will go back behind the cylinder. Now you should see a relase on the far right side where the tray is in the CDRW, push THIS tab to the left, and the tray should pop out

NOW, use your finger and move the black gear (looks like 1/3 of a total gear) back and forth like 3 or 4 times. Put the tray back in, making sure it catches in the 2 spots you took it out of, and that the black cylinder coming off the 1/3 gear matches with the little groove in the tray. Put the CDRW faceplate back on, then the little faceplate for hte tray, hook some power up, and it should go back in just fine. Press eject a few times to prove it to yourself.

Now, ome that we had wouldn't go in ALL the way by themselves. They would go in 99% of the way and kind of make a grinding sound... all we had to do was push the the tray a tiny bit and it would work fine. We ended up using these for in house computers...

wow thanks!!
i'll definitely try that tomorrow, when i have some time.
ah, it pays to post your misfortunes on ATOT

 

[iamme]

YEEEEAH baby!!!!!!

It worked!!!!

Thanks Joemonkey!!