Open the Computer folder and right-click the icon for the CD or DVD drive that is stuck, and then click Eject. Look for a small hole below the Drive Tray. This is the Manual Tray Release.

Whenever you connect a USB drive, external drive, or DVD to your computer, you have to open This PC or Computer folder, find the drive icon, and click on it. If you close the Explorer window and ...

Q: The DVD drive on my PC will not open. I have tried teasing it open with a paper clip but to no avail. Doug Aitken, by email A: Have another go with the paperclip and the manual release catch.

Apple's DVD Player will only work with internal DVD drives and will give an error -70012 if you open it with only an external DVD drive attached. Topher Kessler ...

When you insert a DVD into the computer's DVD drive, the native DVD Player application loads automatically. If for some reason it does not, open the DVD Player manually by accessing it in the ...

On the Mac without the optical drive, open the Finder and click Remote Disc. This will bring up a list of all Mac and PC computers on the network set up to share their optical drives.