With the latest round of super thin iMacs it introduced last year, Apple did away with optical drives in its all-in-one desktop PCs. Good riddance, so far as I'm concerned. In my experience, the ...

I've got a Pioneer DVD that I'd like to paint the faceplate to match my case and other components. How would I go about removing the faceplate without damaging the drive? I'd be OK with the drive tray ...

You have several options for ejecting a disc from your Mac's optical drive. If the usual methods for disc ejection fail, you enter a command in the Terminal window to force the system to eject the ...

Optical drives typically include a small pinhole large enough to insert a paper clip end to manually eject a stubborn disc. Since the Mac Mini doesn't include this feature, you must use other methods ...

When you try to eject a CD or DVD, you see a message – An error occurred while ejecting DVD RW Drive, then this post offers some suggestions that may help you ...

Reader Donald Mower is rich in DVD drives and would like to control all of them from the keyboard. He writes: I have one internal and one external DVD drive in my new Power Mac G5. How do I eject/open ...

Instead of just hitting your PS4 on its side and hoping it eventually spits out a disc that becomes stuck in the disc drive, Sony has detailed exactly how you’ll be able to manually eject any disc ...