A few days ago, I popped a software disk into my DVD drive, shoved the drawer shut, and then heard a horrible banging noise. In my haste, I apparently didn’t seat the disk properly, and it ended up at an angle inside the drive. The banging noise was my drive’s drawer repeatedly trying to open and close as it was confused which it should do.
I shut off my computer and stuck a paperclip inside the manual over-ride for the drawer, giving myself just enough room to jam a screw driver inside in a sad attempt to knock the disk down onto the drawer. All I ended up doing was scratching the disk to the point that it was unreadable. No big deal since it was free software which could be downloaded from the web. After I stopped being driven by frustration and thought the process out a little bit, I was finally able to very easily get the disk out using the following method.
