superdave1984
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I have googled till my head hurts. Somebody brought me Dell Inspiron 1318 that had a CD stuck in the drive. It wouldn't boot past the loading bar screen, no Windows logo. Slot load drive and it was jammed. Got a new drive and installed. Still no boot. Downloaded a Vista recovery disk and popped it in the drive. It boots to the disk, but it's in GERMAN. Now I can't get THAT disk out. I hit the eject button and it stops spinning, but doesn't eject. So, since it won't boot to Windows, safe mode, or any other option, how do I get this German disk out without taking this thing apart again? The owner has no disks that came with it and she has already sent it to Dell once and they sent it back unfixed and with a nice bill since it was out of warranty.
EDIT. It's a slot load CD drive and the entire laptop has to be taken apart to remove the drive. PITA.
EDIT. It's a slot load CD drive and the entire laptop has to be taken apart to remove the drive. PITA.