A disk is stuck in my slot-loading Dell Studio Hybrid. How can I get it out?

The slot-loading optical drive in my Dell Studio Hybrid has been acting up. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it churns and makes some unpleasant sounds. Now I can't even get it to eject the disc that's in there.

Many drives have an "emergency eject" pinhole, but I don't see one here. How can I get the disc out?

I had this happen to me, only worse when I learnt the hard way not to put miniCDs into slot-load CD drives!

I tried the below things, and eventually managed to get it out. Admittedly some of these have potential to get you into a worse mess than you already are :P

• Inserting a piece of cardboard with double-sided stickytape to try and stick to and pull out CD.
• Pushing the CD further in then trying to eject
• Inserting another (expendable) CD on top of the existing and ejecting both
• As above but with double sided table on the top CD

Ultimately if none of these work you last option is to remove the drive and try and get it out once it's outside the laptop.

Try rebooting, and also try ejecting from inside the computer - right click on the disc in My Computer and click 'Eject'...if that doesn't work, I hope some else has some suggestions...

I ran into the same issue. I took the Studio Hybrid apart and removed the DVD drive (screw on outer case, screw for cover, screw for HDD/DVD Assembly, 4 screws to remove DVD drive). there were 4 small screws on the DVD drive that, once removed, allowed the DVD to be pulled straight out.