Help - Toshiba DVD drive: Can't eject.

[aceO07]

I noticed this problem recently. My DVD drive started not getting detected once in a while. I'd have to go to hardware devices and scan again for it to show up in Win2k. Then recently, it'd stop reading my DVDs while they were being played. It'd just not know that the DVD was in there. When I go to check My Computer, it shows up as empty and asks me to insert disc. While the drive thinks it's empty, it refuses to eject the disc. I can't eject through software or hardware button. I think I'vd tried the emergency eject pin hole too, it's too deep or I didn't go far enough, the tray doesn't budge at all.

Anybody know what's going on? Help. 😱 I have a DVD in there I need to return tomorrow.

edit: It doesn't eject even when I'm in BIOS or booting up, not just in Win2k.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

well seems like the drive is dead, or not far from it...
so take a paperclip and jam it in as far as it will go to see if it will open or not

if not, do you have another computer? (or a friend who is awake this late and you can try the drive in his/her computer? )

if not, time to open the drive up i guess 😉 😀

 

[aceO07]

Yea, that was what I was thinking too. Just grasping for some hope...

 

[aceO07]

Last bump before I get desparate and take measure to get my DVD out or be forced to pay late fees on a DVD I didn't finish seeing.. :disgust:

 

[beverage]

if you're in "last resort" mode, instead of an all-out attack on the drive, use a flat blade screw driver, and push it straight in under the tray, then rock the handle down... it should start to open the drive...you may have to do it three or four times and it might take some force...it's pretty much a super manual emergency eject, and you don't have to tear the drive all apart to do it.

 

[OulOat]

Won't that kill the faceplate though?