Disc drive will not eject in Windows 7

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Disc drive will not eject in Windows 7

I just upgraded from XP pro to Windows 7 home premium yesterday and it's all been working great save one little detail: my disc drive will not eject discs. I've tried the eject button (I'm on an aluminum macbook late 2008) as well as manually ejecting the discs from explorer. When I boot up in OSX I can eject discs fine. It's probably also important to note I'm using the bootcamp drivers that came with my 10.5.6 OSX installation disc, so I don't know if those are up to par for running Windows 7.

Any suggestions would be great

Late 2008 Aluminum 2.4 Ghz Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Oct 25, 2009 5:52 PM

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Hesy

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Oct 26, 2009 2:33 AM in response to Whiskers165

I have the same problem, however, I also have another problem. My Mac has got keyboard backlight function. When I am in Windows 7, I can dim the light but turn it off.
Do you have the same problem?!

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Hoffphil

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Nov 9, 2009 11:15 AM in response to Whiskers165

Hi,

I have the same problem with windows 7 not ejecting discs (with macbook pro late 2008 with latest Bootcamp drivers installed).

At the moment I can eject the dics only by putting windows 7 to sleep (closing the lid) and on wake the disc ejects by pressing the normal Eject key.

Hope apple (or MS ??) will fix this...

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anv

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Nov 11, 2009 7:25 PM in response to Whiskers165

I also have the problem. I'm using boot camp 3.0 on macbook pro unibody 2008 and it will allow me to eject only discs that have been inserted after windows 7 has completely booted. Any discs already in the drive during the boot still reads after boot but will not eject via explorer or eject button.

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