Friday, September 13, 2019

Locked CD Rom Drive

For What It Is Worth - 

I had a CD locked in the D drive and it suddenly just rattled.  I couldn't get it to play and I couldn't get the tray to open.  I was going NUTS.  Then, searching for an answer, I found a 15 year old post that said to stick a straightened paperclip into the small hole in the front.

I remembered about that soon as I read it, but I had forgotten!  Look for yourself on a Windows PC...

I didn't solve the "failure to play", but at least it got the CD out, LOL!

But when I got the CD out and tried it in the 2 tray it played fine.  I have to laugh that I'm keeping a Windows 95 (offline) working.  But I suspect I'll have to find a repair shop soon.


3 comments:

David said...

It is really easy to replace a CD drive. They only have 2 connectors. $10-15 on ebay.

Michael said...

CDs are on the way out Mark so perhaps it's time to save files on a USB on in the cloud.

Megan
Sydney, Australia

Mark's Mews (Marley, Lori, Loki, and Binq) said...

David - I didn't realize it was that easy. I may try it.

Megan - I try to keep "my stuff" out of the the control of the larger info-stealers. I may not be successful, but I try.

I remember reading that CDs would be good for a thousand years. I din't believe that then, but did think they they would would be good for lifetime. I have CDs that are only 10 years old and are apparently unreadable now due to speedier drives.

Silly me...

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