{"id":358,"date":"2022-11-25T22:07:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T06:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2022-11-25T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T06:20:06","slug":"how-to-open-a-stuck-laptop-cd-dvd-disc-drive-no-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"How to Open a Stuck Laptop CD\/DVD Disc Drive (No Power)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Issue: CD\/DVD drive is not connected to any power, and there is a disc stuck inside the drive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solution: Ever wonder why there&#8217;s a small hole on the side of the drive? It&#8217;s designed to open the drive when there&#8217;s no power. Just find a thin pin that&#8217;s long enough to push into the hole, and the drive will automatically be opened. See pic below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG55-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG55-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG55-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG55-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG55-1x1.jpeg 1w, http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG55.jpeg 1276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Small hole on the side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG56-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG56-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG56-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG56-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG56-1x1.jpeg 1w, http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG56.jpeg 1276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Insert a long thin pin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WechatIMG57-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-361\"\/><figcaption>Drive is open!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a rather simple trick. Hopefully it can help people who face with the same problem, even though nowadays not many people use CD drive anymore&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">San Jose, CA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue: CD\/DVD drive is not connected to any power, and there is a disc stuck inside the drive. Solution: Ever wonder why there&#8217;s a small hole on the side of the drive? It&#8217;s designed to open the drive when there&#8217;s no power. Just find a thin pin that&#8217;s long enough to push into the hole, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,34,29,28,31,33,30,32],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobby-electronics","tag-cd","tag-disc","tag-drive","tag-dvd","tag-laptop","tag-open","tag-optical","tag-stuck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yingzhangdong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}