Have you ever needed to open your CD or DVD drive (also known as an optical drive) but couldn’t? There’s no reason to replace the drive just because the eject button doesn’t do what you expect it to do.

Fortunately, there is almost always one of the following two methods that will help open the drive:

We’ll start with the easiest way to get the drive open: bypass the physical button on the outside and ask your operating system to force-eject the drive. You should only attempt this if your computer has power and is working. If it doesn’t, skip to the next section.

Time Required: It is very easy to force eject your CD, DVD or BD drive using your operating system commands. It only takes a few seconds.