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Why Won’t My PC’s Optical Drive Open?

My PC’s optical drive won’t open. It’s been that way for a few weeks. Why won’t my PC’s optical drive open?

It’s passive-aggressively suggesting that I don’t really need an optical drive in the first place.

It’s still recovering from when I tried to get it to read my original 7th Guest discs.

It still hasn’t forgiven me for tearing it out of my last PC and cramming it into this strange new body without even asking.

One of the tiny cables has come unplugged.

One of the tiny prongs within one of the tiny cables has come unplugged.

A tiny particle of dust somehow got on one of the tiny prongs within one of the tiny cables and has severed the connection.

It’s become attached to the old PC Gamer Shadow Warrior demo CD I may have left in there.

It’s being held shut by a tiny man, whose one tragic purpose in life is to keep any DVDs or CDs from getting through.

It’s sick of my shit.

It’s sick of your shit.

It’s been so long since it last opened that it’s forgotten how.

The door is stuck or the mechanism is otherwise jammed.

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