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Cd rom drawer on dell laptop won't open - Dell Inspiron™ 600M PC Notebook

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Hard to say could be a hardware fault, if its a jammed drawer there should be a small hole on the side approx 2mm in diameter this is to open the drawer manually i normally use a cocktail stick and gently push it into the hole and the drawer should open.

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Hello, have you tried going into "My Computer" then right clicking on cd drive and click "Eject"? if not, try that.
if you have then take a thin paper clip open up one side of it so its straight.
After you have paper clip straighten up look carefully around the cd rom's eject button and you will notice a tiny hole.
Take the paper clip and keeping it straight slowly and gently insert in the hole and soon you will feel little resistance push it a little bit more and that should eject your CD rom.
if it opens up leave the cd rom open and reboot your laptop once and see if your drive now work normally and ejects the way it should?

hope this helps, post back if you have issues.

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SOURCE: laptop CD drawer repair

Hi there.

It sounds like your Class Filter Drivers are missing/corrupt.

I would download and update your BIOS (this should include the class filter drivers), update your DVD drive firmware, and also the WinDVD update for Windows Vista. You can get these from the Toshiba website, here:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=1598559&rpn=PSAD0U&modelFilter=A135-S4467&selCategory=3&selFamily=1073768663

The 3 downloads I just mentioned, are the first 3 on the list.

Let me know how you get on.

Tim

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