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Here’s how you can remove a CD or DVD disc from a not working laptop. Let’s say the laptop will not turn on but there is a CD or DVD disc stuck inside the optical drive and you want to get it out. Also, you can use these instructions if the laptop itself is working fine but the CD/DVD drive is broken and it will not open up when you press the button. I think most people know this trick but some don’t.
All you need is a paper clip straightened out as it shown on the picture.
As an example I’ll take my IBM ThinkPad T42 laptop. There is a small hole located on the front panel close to the eject button. Insert the paper clip inside the hole and slowly push it in.
The CD/DVD drive will open up. Now you can remove the disc and close the drive.
All laptop CD/DVD drives are similar and most of them have this “secret” hole. I took this picture from a HP Pavilion zv5000 series laptop. The hole is marked with a white circle.
This picture was taken from a Toshiba Satellite A105 laptop.
March 8th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
On my laptop the following occurs:
After I turn it on, and it boots-up “as normally it does”, I start to use it.
Then after a short period of time, the display blanks out? I have looked for some kind of “programmed delay built into the laptop”, and checked the set-up programs and icons, to try to resolve the problem.
There is a icon for the display, where you can select the display background as well. All to no “avail on my part”.
I would like the display to stay on until I turn the laptop “off” as it normally should do.
Instead…I have to move the mouse alittle bit, each time the display blanks out and get dark black, but as soon as I juggle the mouse a bit or two, here comes the display back “on again”?
What gives here? Hmmmmm
Tony Vigil
vigilaw@hotmail.com
March 17th, 2008 at 1:32 am
Simple……. remove ur screensaver!!
March 17th, 2008 at 11:39 am
You mean you’re Screen Saver is set to a blank screen?
June 27th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
[...] The DVD drive also could be easily accessed and removed from the bottom of the laptop. First, open the DVD drive with a paper clip, then remove one screw securing the DVD drive to the laptop, and finally pull the DVD drive from the laptop. [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 3:17 pm
thankyou thankyou thankyou!!! my computer panic is now aborted thanks to your express cd removal whoever you are i officially love you!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:11 am
Thanks guys! it worked
October 1st, 2008 at 10:25 am
Thanks for suggetion. It is really worked out.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
You could not have made it any easier for me!! thanks!!
June 18th, 2009 at 10:11 am
I have a hp laptop and my cd disc is stuck. I tried the paper clip and it still didn’t work for me. Do you have any other suggestions? If so,please let me know. Thank you