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My primary HDD died while I had a CD in the DVD drive. I have purchased and installed two new HDDs to replace and have a copy of Win7. BUT the cd is still in the drive and I am unable to get the disk out. I have tried to build a bootable USB drive using RMPrepUSB but the bios does not seem to recognize it as a bootable drive. A utility launched off the bios can see the drive but not any of its contents.
How do I eject the DVD so I can put my new Win7 install DVD in the drive?
How do I eject the DVD so I can put my new Win7 install DVD in the drive?
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Bruce
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I did try to pull the snap-on front of the casing off and while doing so found a molded, inconspicuous button next to the drive opening... that was it. I restarted the machine and pushed the button during the start-up and it ejected the drive bay.
I am off and running installing Win7.
Thanks for all that responded.