How to open a jammed CD or DVD drive on a PC or Laptop?
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Sometimes if the CD or DVD drives are old they tend to get stuck for one reason or the other. But its very easy to open a stuck CD/DVD drive using a paper clip.
So let see how to open a stuck CD or DVD drive.
That’s my laptop and lets assume its DVD drive is stuck!
Now we need a Paper Clip. Just make sure its not too thin or too thick.
Search for a small reset hole on the CD or DVD drive. Most of the time you might have never noticed it until now.
Stretch the paper clip so that you can use it to insert inside the reset hole.
Most of the times, or at least in what I have experienced, you don’t need power supply to open the drive when using this method. So you can turn the power supply off.
Use the paper clip to poke inside the reset hole until the DVD drive opens by itself. Sometimes it might be little resistive but use a little force.
Hope this tutorial helped you in opening your stuck CD or DVD drive.
Wow, cool tip, does this work in Desktops?
@Nicholas Yeah it works the same in all PC and Laptop
On a Mac the faithful are encouraged to buy a new laptop when the CD becomes stuck. This is how your Mac lets you know its time.
It does work some time and it may not work some time if it not works open the cd\dvd drive of pc remove the screws and remove the cd .don’t know how to do it for laptop:).