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ATI Home 2010 doesn't eject rescue CD on exit

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The rescue CD for previous versions of ATI Home (at least up to vesion 10) had an EXIT option on the menu and would eject the CD when exiting. The ATI Home 2010 rescue CD (built by ATI Home, not the downloadable ISO) has no exit option that I can find nor does it eject the CD. This can be a problem with slot loading optical drives, especially if there is no way to eject the CD using the BIOS. This can be a big problem if a corrupt backup prevents booting from the hard drive you're trying to restore (you need not ask how I know.) If the CD were ejected you could boot from a BartPE or Linux live CD to inspect and perhaps repair the hard drive. In my case I do have prior backups to restore from so I'm not faced with having to take a laptop apart to get the CD out..

Is there some way to eject the CD that I'm not aware of?

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Examine the front of your CDRom tray carefully. Does your CD tray have an emergency ejection pinhole where you can insert a long (about 2 inches) safety or straight pin into the pinhole and cause ejection.

When your Windows desktop is available, I can point you to some programs which will open and close your tray via a desktop shortcut.

It's a slot loading drive - i.e. no tray that pops out or emergency pin hole to eject the CD. With a Windows desktop right clicking on the drive in Windows Explorer brings up a short cut menu with 'Eject' as one of the choices - which is how I got it out after restoring a previous good backup up.

I just downloaded the ISO rescue CD and I'll see if that's any different. What I'd really like is to be able to drop into the linux shell as in a live CD.

Best, Ed

Update: I downloaded and tried the ISO image rescue CD. Same problem. Now I'm wondering if I can hack the ISO image to add ejecting the CD before restarting the system. And, if I can, what Acronis would think about it - i.e. whether or not the licensing terms premit or prohibit modifying the ISO image.