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Old 2nd August, 2007, 09:50 AM
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It's unlikely that there'd be a paperclip hole, as the drive is a slot load, not a tray load. Paperclip holes are found on tray loads where the (clunky) design of the mechanism gives you something to push against.

Slot load drives don't have any equivalent mechaism due to their completely different design.

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Originally Posted by dsio
it would mean a dead windows installation with a disk still in the drive, combined with the fact that there does not seam to be any mechanical release method would mean the machine would be somewhat difficult to get working.
Assuming that the BIOS doens't have an eject feature, you could
boot from a USB stick or the network. It's not like the hard disk or the DVD are the only boot sources.
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