Name: Jeff
I have two cd drives in my computer and neither one will open when I press the eject button.n when pressed the led flashes and it sounds like it wants to open but it will not?
They may be jammed. The easiest way to check is to take a paperclip (or pin, whatever) and carefully stick it into the tiny hole you see on the front of the CD drives. Usually this hole is located on the middle-left side of the drive directly below the CD tray.
Reach in there with the paperclip and press on the release button. The tray should pop open a couple of centimeters and then you can pull it out by hand.
If neither of them are jammed then I’d disconnect the IDE cables from the back and see if you can eject then. If the computer is trying to access the drive (or the drive thinks it’s being accessed) it generally will not let you eject.
Ah, also, while you have the drives manually opened via the paperclip, take a can of compressed air and blow them out. The lenses may be dirty and trying to read, but since they’re blocked they continue to try. The drive won’t always eject in the middle of a read operation.
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