Optical drive, game disc error

I successfully replaced the opical drive in a Wii, it works, reads discs and games can be played. But I have one weird anomaly. I'll describe and share what I believe to be the potential problem. When I removed the old optical drive I didn't realize that there wass a game disc in there which was never ejected. No big deal. I've had this happen numerous times with PCs. So after installing the new optical drive I grab the old optical drive simply manually removed the unejected disc, without incident. Like I said the new drive is working and every game disc works...except one and it's the game disc that wasn't ejected from the old optical drive before it was removed. The game disc worked in the old optical drive (which is why it was loaded in the drive). When it's inserted into the new optical drive it's recoognized and the game appears to load when selected form the Wii menu. But then an error msg appears on the screen. I can't recall what the actual text message is that appears on the screen, but basically it say sthat there's a disc error and to contact nintendo support. Every single other game disc works and like I said this one had prevously worked and now isn't and coincidently it just happens to be the disc that wasnt ejected from the old optical dirve prior to it being removed. This is what it seems like has happened. All things considered it appears as if when a game disc is inserted in to the optical drive and is loaded that the system makes a database record of this, storing the disc/game id, optical drive id/serial, and marking the disc/game as having an 'inserted state' on the mounted device (the optical drive). When you eject the disc this record is either deleted or the state of the game disc is switched to 'ejected' and written to some internal database Removing the old optical drive without first ejecting the game disc and then manually removing it from the optical drive after it has been unistalled means that, due to the fact that the disc was never ejected the game console still thinks that the game disc is inserted. Which could explain the fact that the disc is accpeted when inserted, appears in the Wii menu and starts to load when selected, but then erorrs out when the game console goes to log game discs status as being in a "loaded state" and error is created because ther's already an entry in the internal database which has that game disc state as already being "inserted". (Because it wasn't ejected prior to the old optical drive being ininstalled and replased. Or there's something similar going on but rather related to there maybe being either an in-progress or unsaved game session for the game that 's on the disc that wasn't ejected. I know that I can test this hypootheses by removing the new optical. reinstalling the old optical drive and then actually going throug the process of "ejecting the disc. Then reinstall the new optical drive and see what happens when the game disc in question is inserted in the new (and isntalled) optical drive. However, before I go thought that process again, I want to share my experience and thoughts on what the problem first. With the hope that someone would be able to either verify or rebuke my crazy hypothesis. I do realize that either way in the end I'll need to do this anyway...well, only if I wanted to play that specific game disc again. So, if anyone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it. Thank you.