I need to eject a mounted disk!

Okay, I saw you post on the "Fix It" thread, and I was wondering if what you said could also help me. I have a disk mounted but I don't know how to eject it, so technically it is kind of like having 2 CD's in at the same time, (when i put a real CD in) so i was wondering if what you said in that other thread would work.

Thanks so much :)

Here is my other thread: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardware/thread/13607960-413f-4b1c-8d25-58f0ee6fdab4

Hello No Skill,

There are several ways that you can try to work this out before concluding that the CD drive could have gone bad.

Your first step towards troubleshooting this issue would be to unmount any virtual discs that you have mounted recently.

·         Do you see any CD/DVD drives showing up in the Windows Explorer?

If 2 drives appear in the Windows Explorer, this means that the device is still mounted on your computer.

Here is a tutorial I found at the Magic ISO website that will show a demo on how to unmount the virtual disc:

http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-unmount.htm

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Once you have the virtual disc unmounted from your computer, check if the CD drive is working normally.

If your CD/DVD drive still does not work on the computer, I suggest that you follow the below link and run the Fix-it. This will automatically diagnose and repair problems with your CD or DVD drive when trying to read or burn media:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cd_dvd_drive_problems

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Heya, (hopefully you will come back here and see what i posted)

Thanks for replying! :P Although I did everything you said, well I had already unmounted it, and checked and I only have 1 drive that appears. When I click  on it, it says that "this device is working properly" so i'm not sure ... I'm going to do the fixit thing right now and see if that works, and then i'll tell you. But as for now, it's still the same :(

:((( I ran the fixit and it said that the disk was not readable. I still think that it is because maybe that stuff is mounted, I'm not sure ... But i know for a fact that I unmounted the stuff (or at least told it to!) and there is only 1 drive running. No CDs are detected, because I think the mounted CD is blocking it.

Open for suggestions though!! :) Please help

THANKSSSS

Hi No Skill,

Please see the following link to an article with some troubleshooting steps, and a possible fix:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060#appliesto

I understand you've done the FixIt part, so please look under the Let Me Fix it Myself section, for further troubleshooting.

Hope this helps!

This didn't work. Cody, you marked this as the answer but it didn't work...

Still searching :s

Thanks.