CD driver won't eject

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Hedderz

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I hope you guys can help me.

After using the CD drive for a while it will not open using the button or right-click and eject. I can still access the info on the cd thats in the drive but just can't eject it it. If I use a paper clip I can open the drive and then close it using the button but I can't then open it again. If I reboot the PC the problem goes away for a while but then returns. It can work for days before the fault happens or a couple of hours. There seems to be no pattern to the fault.

I have swapped the drive out with 2 different drives and the problem remains (so its not the drive thats faulty), I have swapped out the PSU in the PC and also swapped the motherboard (all under warranty) but the problem is still there.

Its a CD-RW drive and there is no burning software on the PC.

I can't think what else to do with this. Can anyone shed any light?
 
Sounds pretty dead if it happened between two computers. Drives are very cheap now... A decent DVD-RW drive is only about $40 off newegg.
 
Have you tried right clicking he drive in my computer and selecting eject?

Anyway, it's just a dieing drive, happens all the time.
 
Oh, I'm sorry, I read it as you tried the drive in different computers...

Hmm... Yeah, I was going to mentioned what PohTayToez mentioned at first(until I mis-read it your post :P) Hehe... How about booting to the drive? Can you boot to say an XP disk? Does the problem only occur within windows?
 
Thats the thing, its not just a deing drive. This is the third drive we have tried in the PC. Two brand new drive have been tested in it, the first one we tried failed after about 3 days so we thought that we would try another new one just in case that was faulty as well but that failed aswell. We have tried the "faulty" drives in other PC and the work without problems.

The drive will work and you can open and close it all you like. It will all of a sudden not open using either the button (hardware) or ricght clicking and selecting ejecting (software). If there is a disk in the drive when this happens then you can still access the drive and any info on it.

The drive is not faulty.
The PSU is not faulty.
The motherboard is not faulty.

The only thing that I can think of is that windows is some how locking drive shut. This happens when a drive is burning a disk so that it can't be opened during the burning process. But there is no burning software on the PC and it happens when you are just reading the info (I was looking at some photos on a CD when it happened last).

If you reboot the PC the problem goes away and it can go away for days and then just out of the blue happen again. The quickest it has done it is about 45 mins after tunring the PC on.

This has just got me so confused. Its not something that I have come across before. Usually it is a defective drive.

I'm stumped!!!!
 
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