Hello Edward,

Eject is a small command line utility that can be used to insert and eject the CD-ROM tray from command prompt. Download the utility from below and extract all the files in your Windows directory (So that you may be able to access it from command prompt easily). How to Eject the CD Tray for Windows 10. Normally you are able to open the CD/DVD drive by pressing a button on the drive itself, or through a designated keyboard key depending on your computer.

Provide us with the below information to help you better.

1. What is the make and model of your computer?
2. Are you unable to eject the DVD in an inbuilt DVD drive or an External DVD drive connected to your computer?
3. What exactly happens when you try to eject the DVD drive?

Refer to the below methods and check if it helps.

Method 1: Run the Troubleshoot Hardware and Devices.

Hardware troubleshooter reviews, diagnose and identifies operational or technical problems within a hardware device.
1. Press Windows Key +R, type Control Panel.
2. Type troubleshooting in the search bar, click on troubleshooting.
3. Click on Hardware and Devices.
4. Follow the steps from the wizard to run the troubleshooter.

Method 2:Update DVD drivers from Device Manager.

Refer the article below article to install the drivers.

How to: Install and Update drivers in Windows 10

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Most of the personal computers available in the market today don’t include an optical drive or popularly known as CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive. Now that USB drives and external hard drives are available for throwaway prices, most users prefer using USB drives instead of traditional CD/DVDs to backup and transfer data.

That said, there are many PCs out there that still include CD/DVD drive. If your notebook has an optical drive and you’re running Windows 10, Windows 8 or Windows 7, you probably have observed that Windows doesn’t provide an option to close the optical drive tray while it does provide an option to eject the drive.

Create hotkey to close & open CD/DVD drive tray in Windows 10

In short, while you can open the optical drive tray with a click, it’s not possible to close the CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive tray without physically pushing the tray. It could be because neither Microsoft nor developers interested in optical drives anymore.

Luckily, if you’re still use CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive in your Windows PC very often, here are two small utilities to help you quickly eject and close CD/DVD drive tray using keyboard shortcuts.

Door Control

Door Control, as the name might suggest, helps you control the door of the CD/DVD drive right from the desktop. The tool helps you eject and close CD/DVD/Blu-ray with the help of keyboard shortcuts as well as via system tray shortcut.

Upon installing and running Door Control, the program sits in the system tray area of the taskbar. To enable keyboard shortcuts for close and eject operations, right-click on Door Control’s tray icon, and click Hot Key to open the Door Control Hotkey dialog. Select one of the pre-listed hotkeys and then click OK button.

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Although Door Control is a good utility, the software doesn’t seem to work with some drives and PCs. While the utility on my HP laptop running Windows 10, the program failed to close the Sony DVD drive tray on my assembled desktop PC.

NirCMD

If the Door Control software is not working on your PC, you may try NirCMD solution from the popular NirSoft.

Step 1: Download NirCMD utility by clicking here. Extract the NirCMD contents to the root of your Windows 10 drive (the folder that appears when you double-click on the drive icon).

Step 2: Next, open Command Prompt by typing CMD in Start menu search box and then pressing Enter key.

Step 3: In the Command Prompt, type cd C: and then press Enter key.

In the above command, replace “C” with the drive letter where Windows 10 is installed.

Step 4: Finally, copy and paste below commands and press Enter key after pasting each command to execute.

nircmd.exe cmdshortcutkey “~$folder.desktop$” “Open CDROM” “CTRL+SHIFT+O” cdrom open

nircmd.exe cmdshortcutkey “~%folder.desktop%” “Close CDROM” “CTRL+SHIFT+C” cdrom close

Step 5: You may close the Command Prompt now. From now on, you can use Ctrl + Shift + O keyboard shortcut to open the CD/DVD tray and Ctrl + Shift + C to close the optical drive tray.

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Also, executing above commands will create two shortcuts named Open CDROM and close CDROM on your desktop. You can click on these shortcuts to close or open the CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive tray.