How do you unlock a CD drive?
 

^ See above message.

Re: How do you unlock a CD drive?
 

Do you mean as in the drive is stuck shut or it won't open when you hit the open button?

Nearly All CD/DVD drives have a little hole on the front of it that, when pushed with say either a toothpick or a paperclip that has been straightened, will override the cd/dvd drive and open it for you. Unless it's stuck shut, then you'll have to do some risky manual labor;)

Yes, please be more specific. Unlocking something can have many different meanings. I assume you're asking about what Jonbo replied with, but if you're not...

Get the designated key and unlock the padlock.

what?

:unsure:

The drive tray works. It just doesn't load any CD's.

Re: How do you unlock a CD drive?
 

It probably needs to be replaced or maybe something came loose inside of the comp.

Re: Re: How do you unlock a CD drive?
 

go into the properties of the cd drive and make sure its set up for autoload

If you mean that it can't read cd's at all, that means that you need a new cd-rom drive. But if it doesn't "auto-load" follow Hero's advice.

Re: How do you unlock a CD drive?
 

Or get a CD cleaning.....CD! Those are usually pretty good priced. If that doesn't work, just get a new drive. They aren't very expensive.

Re: Re: How do you unlock a CD drive?
 

Yep I'd advice a lens cleaning CD too. I'm not sure, but I think it saved my CD-ROM player. :) I mean burner. :D