My E: drive disc tray won't open.

Clooless · 04-20-2007, 09:11 PM

Hello, recently my E: drive mysteriously died. The drive still works, but when I push the button it pauses for 10-15 seconds, and then the drive light flashes for a bit. I don't have the small hole on my drive to do the paper clip trick to pop it open, and I have tried going into My Computer and Ejecting the drive that way. I opened up my PC and unplugged/replugged everything to make sure they were snug, and everything checked out there. However, after doing all that and looking on every forum topic about it I can find, nothing that I've done seems to be working. The name of my drive is TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552D if that helps any. Thank you in advance.

Ethereal_Dragon · 04-20-2007, 09:27 PM

I bet you overloaded the cupholder, and it was stressed and something snapped, or bent...

no, but seriously, I would guess that there is an issue with the drive internally. If you take out the drive, you can remove the face of it CAREFULLY, and you should be able to SLOWLY and CAREFULLY pull the drawer open. I have used this method on an old drive once..... My advice is to get that CD or DVD out of the drive, then put the drive back into the PC with the face of the drive OFF, and test it a few times...

Also, I JUST thought about this... I took the face off of a drive a few years ago to paint it blue, and didn't let it dry long enough, and the drive got painted shut... nothing a little elbow grease didn't fix.

Good luck.

peterhuang913 · 04-20-2007, 09:46 PM

Any computer smart person would know to use Styrofoam cups so that it wont damage the cd tray because it snaps.

SYL\X/3K · 04-20-2007, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ethereal_Dragon

I took the face off of a drive a few years ago to paint it blue, and didn't let it dry long enough, and the drive got painted shut... nothing a little elbow grease didn't fix.

hahaha :P

Ethereal_Dragon · 04-20-2007, 11:50 PM

Lol, that was my first 'mod', when I upgraded form a Pentium 133 Mhz to a PII 650e MHz....

04-20-2007, 09:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
Clooless Newb Techie Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1	My E: drive disc tray won't open. Hello, recently my E: drive mysteriously died. The drive still works, but when I push the button it pauses for 10-15 seconds, and then the drive light flashes for a bit. I don't have the small hole on my drive to do the paper clip trick to pop it open, and I have tried going into My Computer and Ejecting the drive that way. I opened up my PC and unplugged/replugged everything to make sure they were snug, and everything checked out there. However, after doing all that and looking on every forum topic about it I can find, nothing that I've done seems to be working. The name of my drive is TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552D if that helps any. Thank you in advance.

04-20-2007, 09:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ethereal_Dragon EagleMod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bolingbrook, IL - USA Posts: 3,369	Re: My E: drive disc tray won't open. I bet you overloaded the cupholder, and it was stressed and something snapped, or bent... no, but seriously, I would guess that there is an issue with the drive internally. If you take out the drive, you can remove the face of it CAREFULLY, and you should be able to SLOWLY and CAREFULLY pull the drawer open. I have used this method on an old drive once..... My advice is to get that CD or DVD out of the drive, then put the drive back into the PC with the face of the drive OFF, and test it a few times... Also, I JUST thought about this... I took the face off of a drive a few years ago to paint it blue, and didn't let it dry long enough, and the drive got painted shut... nothing a little elbow grease didn't fix. Good luck. __________________ Gaming Rig: - GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6, Intel E6750 @ 3.0 Ghz, TRUE (MX-2 & 2 Scythe SFF21D), Crucial Ballistix 4GB DDR 800, HIS Radeon X1950XT, CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX, 2x Seagate 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500 GB, ASUS DRW-2014L1T, Antec 900 The NAS Box: D-Link DNS-323 & 2x Seagate 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB - RAID 1 Current Project: Operation Home Run Status: In progress!!! \| My Antec 900 Build Log \| Project Pink \| Operation Home Run \| \| General Forum Rules \| Networking FAQs & Tutorials \| Hardware Tutorials \| \| My Random Phone Cam Pics \| Useful Linux Websites \| T-F F@H Milestones Clubs \| \| Graphics Card Rankings \| T-F 3DMark06 Rankings \| T-F Case Gallery \|

04-20-2007, 11:50 PM	#5 (permalink)
Ethereal_Dragon EagleMod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bolingbrook, IL - USA Posts: 3,369	Re: My E: drive disc tray won't open. Lol, that was my first 'mod', when I upgraded form a Pentium 133 Mhz to a PII 650e MHz.... __________________ Gaming Rig: - GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6, Intel E6750 @ 3.0 Ghz, TRUE (MX-2 & 2 Scythe SFF21D), Crucial Ballistix 4GB DDR 800, HIS Radeon X1950XT, CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX, 2x Seagate 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500 GB, ASUS DRW-2014L1T, Antec 900 The NAS Box: D-Link DNS-323 & 2x Seagate 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB - RAID 1 Current Project: Operation Home Run Status: In progress!!! \| My Antec 900 Build Log \| Project Pink \| Operation Home Run \| \| General Forum Rules \| Networking FAQs & Tutorials \| Hardware Tutorials \| \| My Random Phone Cam Pics \| Useful Linux Websites \| T-F F@H Milestones Clubs \| \| Graphics Card Rankings \| T-F 3DMark06 Rankings \| T-F Case Gallery \|

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