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Are you asking about ejecting the drive or the CD in the drive? The drive you may or may not be able to eject. Flip over the laptop look for slides or what looks like switches under the CD. Some units may have these releases. You usually slide them to one side or another and the drive can be removed.
If you are asking about the CD, i.e.the laptop wont power up but you still have a CD/DVD in the drive you want. Usually there is a tiny hole on the drive door. It's about the same size as a paperclip diameter. Unbend the paperclip until you have about 1 inch of wire straight out at a 90 degree angle from the clip. Gently slide the wire into the hole on the drive door and give it a gentle push. The door should unlock and come open just a bit allowing you to pull the door all the way open and remove your captured CD. The gears that open and close CD's are plastic and can be stripped very easy so be gentle. Close the CD by slowly pushing the door closed.
I'm pretty sure that model of laptop doesn't have a CD-ROM, or any optical media drive, could be your problem.
If you have an external one connected, there should be a button on the external device, alternatively open "My Computer" and right click on the optical drive and select "Eject" to eject the tray.
Is it listed in Computer? if so, right click, scroll down to Eject. If that fails shut down computer, unplug external drive USB and pry the door open or disassemble the case.
Hard drives won't safely eject if there's any program working with any files in that hard drive. For example, if you have a word document open from that hard drive, it won't eject.
Have you already tried to mannually open the tray, by inserting a thin straight object (like a unbent paper clip) in the manual eject hole on the optical disk drive? The hole exists for that pupose.
warrenty will be void if you open the casing but warrenty for hdd will remain .. so if under warrenty get it replaced, as it is, if data required the warrenty should not be concidered and data recovered, probably the hard drive may not have got damaged , so dont get fooled if some one says data recovery . if you cannot do it hire an expert guru for data recovery.
Assuming this means the CD drive rather than the Hard Drive (which doesn't normally have a link to the outside world).......
Unless something from outside is very obviously fouling the door, the problem is probably internal to the drive. With the price of replacement drives these days (shockingly low), I wouldn't even bother opening the drive to investigate what's wrong - I'd just put a new (probably higher spec) one in.
They're all a standard size and fitting and fitting a replacement is a "no surprises" job.
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