Cd rom disk drawer will not open onemachine t302

if this is a dvd/cd rom drive in a computer you can take a paper clip and unfold 1 end and if you look on the face of the dvd rom unit you will find a hole that you can push the paper clip into and the drawer should open up.

(1) Switch off the PC BEFORE doing the following.
(2) Straighten a paper clip.
(3) Insert the straightened clip into the tiny hole on the CD front.
(4) Push and the drawer will open for you to retrieve the disk.

Take one Norwegian paper-clip, and straighten one end.
Put that end into the small hole in the face-plate of the CD-ROM, and push it gently about 1 centimeter. That should "unlock" the drive, and you can manually pull the drawer the rest of the way to fully open it..

if it does that when a disk is in it,,say u wer doin something and canceled or whatever,,it does that ,,it is normal

the data on compact disks usually starts on the outside of the disks and spirals to the center. My guess is that the laser unit that reads the data is malfunctioning. It moves on a rail from the outside of the disk to the center. About all you can do if try to clean the laser unit or lens assembly. If you can get to the laser lens, blow it off with canned air. If you can not get directly inside, open the CD drawer and shoot the canned air into the machine through the drawer openings. I suggest that you open the CD drawer with the open button then unplug the machine. At that point the drawer should be open and you will have some access to blow off the CD reader.
good luck cleaning the CD reader!

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.

Kind regards,

Amar Sondhi

take a paper clip and streighten it out in a long wire - you should see a hole in front of the cd rom by the drive bay press it in the hole and push the drive open

here is a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscn5_XG2oE

Does the light flash when you press the button? If so, was there a disk in the drive previously? There is a small hole on the front of the unit. With power off, get a paper clip and open it up halfway. Push the open end into this hole and the drawer should pop open by about half an inch. This will be enough for you to gently pull the drive open and remove anything stuck inside. Ian.

If it will not open by itself, open up a small paperclip and push it into the little hole on the front of the cd rom. This will release the latch, and allow the drawer to open

Unless you can do electronic repair yourself and have the schematics for the drive it will be far cheaper and easier for you to simply replace it. Any DVD drive for computers will fit in there. I would buy a new one rather than used so you make sure and get the software with it. Replacing the drive is a 30 minute job at most.