DVD drive won't eject unless there is a disk in it.

[jimnms]

On my old PC, the DVD drive for a while would take two or three tries to get it to eject. When you push the button you here the drive make a noise like it's trying to push the tray out but it's stuck on something. Lately it began getting harder to open, but I started to notice that when there was a disk in there that it opened the first time, every time. I've been keeping a disk in there ever since so I could always get it open.

One day last week my niece watched a DVD movie on it and took the disk out when she was done. Then it wouldn't open at all. I had to stick something into the emergency eject hole to get it open. I put a disk in it, and now opens again.

I have a DVD-ROM and a DVD-RW on my desktop, and today the DVD-ROM drive on it wouldn't open. I had to eject it with the pin hole. I thought maybe it would do the same as the other system and work if there was a disk in it. I was wrong. When I ejected it with the pin hole, the disk was still spinning and scratched the crap out of it.

The DVD drive in my older system I can understand going out, it's old after all, but it works fine as long as it has a disk in the drive. The one in my desktop though isn't as old and just started this today.

I've never had this problem on any system in the past, so it's kind of strange that I now have two that are doing it. Is there some way to fix them or are they just junk now?

 

[Zetro]

DVD drives are not user serviceable which in turns means that if they start to fail you literally just have to toss them for the most part... Thankfully they are no where near as expensive as before with a good LITEON or LG drive only costing $25 give or take.

It still is never fun to have to purchase equipment when you were not planning on it.