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Remove a stuck CD or DVD from a slot loading drive
Authored by: sjr on Thu, Jun 5 2008 at 1:57PM PDT

a bit safer than the method recommended in the article, to remove CDs DVDs. etc from slot loading drives, try a playing card w/ double stick tape on one side -
stick it in the slot, carefully wiggle it around a bit to "grab" the disk, playing w/ the eject button a bit during this might help as well

a client had somehow managed to get both a mini-cd & full size CD stuck in the slot (dont ask how) - playing card + double stick tape did the trick

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