CD Rom Tray Locked

[Vince]

Hello:
I have a machine that has always worked fine. Lately the cd rom tray has
started locking closed. You can not eject it by button or right click on the
icon.

If you do a restart you can open and close after windows ends and before it
restarts. I downloaded a program that allows you to lock or unlock, it is
actually a stand alone tool. If you unlock the drive with this tool the tray
will open and close again for a while. But when it sits for idle for a short
period of time the tray locks again.

Anyone know what is causing this?

Thanks

 

[Galen]

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Hello:
I have a machine that has always worked fine. Lately the cd rom tray
has started locking closed. You can not eject it by button or right
click on the icon.

If you do a restart you can open and close after windows ends and
before it restarts. I downloaded a program that allows you to lock or
unlock, it is actually a stand alone tool. If you unlock the drive
with this tool the tray will open and close again for a while. But
when it sits for idle for a short period of time the tray locks again.

Anyone know what is causing this?

Thanks

Not I but I seem to recall that this is something seen with Roxio
Drag-to-Disk. I disable it from starting with Windows and use it only when I
need to format a DVD for cloning the drive. Do you have Roxio installed?

Galen
--

"You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[Vince]

Hay Galen;

Wish I could say yes but the machine in question does not even have a cd
burner or a dvd burner in it. So no Roxio software.

The machine is hardly ever used it is just a proxy server that does nothing
else but serve the internet to 3 other client machines.

Vince

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Straighten a paper clip, push the straight end into
the little (I mean small) hole on the front of the CD drive, there
will be a bit of resistance. Keep your hand out of the way. You
might consider doing this one with the computer turned OFF.


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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Vince]

Thanks for trying Wes, however I do not have a problem getting into the cd
rom and do not need to force the drive open with a paper clip, I only do
that on stuck or defective drives. Believe me I have plenty of them having
to maintain over 100 machines for various people and have had to use that
trick many times.

To restate my problem, I can get into the cdrom drive when the machine is
powering down or booting up. It is only after windows is running for a few
minutes that the cdrom drive locks closed. I have a program that I
downloaded that I can load and click unlock then the cd rom will work fine.

I just would like to know why the cd rom started locking with windows in the
first place. Does not seem to be a hardware issue but rather a windows or
other program issue. Almost like something in the registry is telling the cd
to lock while idle. There have also been no new programs installed on this
machine in months, just windows updates.

I tried looking in the knowledge base for this issue with no luck. I have
also noticed this exact same issue on some machines running windows 2000.

Thanks

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Hi Vince,

Beats me.

You can see if this vbs script will work or whether it, too, doesn't work
because the drive is locked.

Set the Appropriate drive letter in this line below the # signs...

Set CD=MyComp.ParseName("Appropriate drive letter:\")

#############

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set MyComp=objShell.NameSpace(17)
Set CD=MyComp.ParseName("E:\")
Set Context=CD.Verbs
CD.InvokeVerb "E&ject"

################

Copy and paste everything between the # signs in Notepad and save as
ejectE.vbs or something.vbs and run the script to open the drive door.

I don't remember where I got this, probably David Candy. I have one each
for D and E. Of couse I only have one machine and two drives, not hundreds.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Hi Vince,

Beats me.

Any problems with the drive in Device Manager?

Set the Appropriate drive letter in this line below the # signs...

Set CD=MyComp.ParseName("Appropriate drive letter:\")

#############

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set MyComp=objShell.NameSpace(17)
Set CD=MyComp.ParseName("E:\")
Set Context=CD.Verbs
CD.InvokeVerb "E&ject"

################

Copy and paste everything between the # signs in Notepad and save as
ejectE.vbs or something.vbs and run the script to open the drive door.

I don't remember where I got this, probably David Candy. I have one each
for D and E. Of couse I only have one machine and two drives, not hundreds.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same problem with my IBM ThinkCentre. Once I restart,
everything's fine. Or... once I shut down, then turn back on. Windows XP,
with RecordNow installed. It often locks after playing The Sims (1 or 2) and
has just decided to lock up after my watching a DVD with InterVideo WinDVD.
I'm sick of having to do things the hard way. I'm hoping that someone knows
how to help... Maybe the Knowledge Base should get something about this in
the near future...

 

[Black Baptist]

=?Utf-8?B?Sm9zaA==?= rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

I'm having the same problem with my IBM ThinkCentre. Once I restart,
everything's fine. Or... once I shut down, then turn back on. Windows
XP, with RecordNow installed. It often locks after playing The Sims (1
or 2) and has just decided to lock up after my watching a DVD with
InterVideo WinDVD. I'm sick of having to do things the hard way. I'm
hoping that someone knows how to help... Maybe the Knowledge Base
should get something about this in the near future...

Click start run and type in msconfig and check the startup tab