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Please Help.....CD/DVD/BR drive gone AWOL!!!!!
Well folks this a ll started about two years ago involving possible issues with my "virtual CD" software that pretty much comes imbedded in my external WD hard drive. some how or another the "CD" drive disapeared back then, but it showed that I had a DVD drive and a Blue Ray drive.....well I went to burn some files on a DVD and all was going fine until it got near the end and finalizing the disk, it then told me to reboot my machine because it had some burning errors, I tried to eject the disk but it wouldnt open, so I just rebooted the machine anyways, when it came back up I STILL coundn't get the darn thing to open either by pushing the button on the CD drawer or by clicking on eject, plus now I can hear the disk just a spinning away in the drive AND it only shows a DVD drive and no longer a Blue Ray drive.
Question I have is, is how do I tell the computer that there IS a drive there, and is there a way I can manually eject the disk? it is an HP laptop dv7, I did manage to pop the front faceplate off of the door lol.
I just dont like the idea of this disk just spinning away even though it is not affecting my computer in any way, I would just feel better if it was not spinning. In fact I can probably live without the disc drive and just hop my operating system holds out so I dont have the need for a disc to do a recover or something like that.
Besides that I just send my diles to an SD card and burn disks on other computers in my house if need be.
any help will be apreciated, I just wanna get the dang thing opened up and get the disk out....might have to get the old screwdriver out and do some invasive sergury on the machine......do a little snipping and yanking