DVD/CD combo won't open when mounted sideways?

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Hanthala

I bought a new case where the DVD/CD is basically sitting on it's side
and the screws go into the bottom part of the drive. I can't get the
drive to open this way when pressing the open/close button. Anyone have
any ideas as to why and how to deal with this? Or should I just give up
on the idea?

Drew
 
Most CD/DVD drives are meant to be used in the horizontal, not vertical,
position. Give up.

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Richard Urban
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I bought a new case where the DVD/CD is basically sitting on it's side
and the screws go into the bottom part of the drive. I can't get the
drive to open this way when pressing the open/close button. Anyone
have any ideas as to why and how to deal with this? Or should I just
give up on the idea?

Drew
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Back in the old days, when cases were as likely to be used with the monitor
sitting on top of the case as in the "tower" position, CD-ROM drives often
had a moving part on the disk drawer that you could adjust to hold the CD
when the tower was lying on its side. My old Compaq CD-ROM drive has such a
feature. Having finally replaced it with a modern DVD-RAM drive, I can find
no such "holder" on the new drive. My guess is that they were too redundant
in the era of tower-only setups. As Richard has said, your drive was
probably not designed to run in any but a horizontal configuration.
 
If you lay the box over so the drive is "horizontal", does it work? If
not, I would suspect the mounting is such the screws are in too far and
preventing the drawer slide from moving or the frame is being twisted
and the drawer is binding.
 
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