DVD drive jammed

Can someone help me with a jammed DVD drive? I know about the pinhole trick and it works fine but I don't want to be opening this drive forever with a paperclip. I just stopped opening an hour ago. The drive still works as far as closing and reading the CD in the drive but I have to force it open with the paperclip every time I want to remove or change a CD. Is there a way to fix it (hopefully by me ) or is it better to replace the drive? Thanks for your advice...

 

Halo,
Thanks for your input. If no one else has repair advice, it looks like yet another trip to my neighborhood computer store. I think I picked the wrong profession. Thanks again for your advice...

 

out of curiosity, go to "my computer" right click on that drive, does "eject" work? if so, then it could just be your button that's wore out (if not, i'd say it's the drive)? anyway, just my .02 worth. - sos

 

It sounds like you have a hardware fault, but try Anti-lost CD from Google page.

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&num=20&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=anti-lost+cd&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images

This is a software "eject" but, who knows, it may work. It works well as software but may not, on yours, if the hardware is stuffed. Bazza

 

Sorry, I should have mentioned I tried that before posting... Thanks for the information though!

 

Thank you for the tip - I downloaded the program and it is a nice little one - unfortunately not working on this problem. Thanks for your input!

 

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice. I'm feeling kind of silly at the moment - have fixed the problem but don't know what actually caused it. I noticed this afternoon that a couple of programs were acting up and/or not opening. It took THREE reboots!! but all problems appear to be solved including that non-opening DVD drive. Have not had this type of problem since going to Win XP and would not have figured it to interfere with the opening of the DVD drive. Live and learn...

 

well...good for you man..i was gonna suggest taking out the drive and taking it apart (its fun)..to see if anything was jammed...but o well...