Toshiba L300 - disk drive tray wont open

Anonymous - If you haven't already, Go to Start menu and type Computer and select. This window should show your optical disk drive. Right click on it and select Eject from the menu. Hope this helps.

Look on the cover on the tray near the eject button. Should be a tiny hole.
Get something like a straightened out paperclip and insert it in to the hole and push firmly but carefuly. It's an emergency eject for a stuck tray.

Desktop or Laptop computer wasn't stated.

With most desktop computer optical drive's there is a tiny hole located right under the optical drive tray.
(The tray the disk is inserted in)
A paper clip is straightened out, then inserted into the hole.
This is a manual override, and will open the tray.

There are some desktop computer optical drives, that the computer case has a door that flips down, then the optical drive tray comes out.
The door must be eased down far enough to see if the optical drive has the small hole.

With a laptop computer the optical drive is removed from the laptop.

Generally there is one small Philips head screw that is removed from the bottom side of the laptop, then the optical drive tray is opened with the paper clip, and the optical drive is then removed by using the tray as a handle.
The optical drive is then pulled straight out.

Once out the top cover is removed for access to the disk.

If this information is not what you seek, or you would like it explained, please post in a Comment, and we'll work together on finding a solution.

Regards,
joecoolvette

Right next to the button there is a small whole. Get a needle or a paper clip and push through the hole, the disk tray will pop out.

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Remove battery, rmeove power adapter and all other connected devices. Press the power button for 1 minute.

Try with power adapter alone. Next try with battery alone.

Even if this does not help then probably you need to reseat RAM, Hard disk and Optical drive.

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Hi there.
There are a couple of ways to open the CD/DVD tray.
Firstly you can right click on the CD/DVD icon in my computer/computer and select eject from the sub menu, or if you look very close at the CD/DVD drive near the eject button for a very small hole, if you see one get a paperclip, straighten it out and push one end in the hole until the tray ejects.


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You could try to manually eject the CD, may be the mechanism is stuck. Have a close look at the CD tray, there should be a tiny hole, then find a paper clip with a wire diameter that nicely fits this hole and poke it in there, this will release the CD tray and open it so you can retrieve the CD.

Hope this helps