Comments on: CD/DVD-RW optical drive

By: sushant

sushant — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:12:09 +0000

im having atapi connector dvd rom and i want to convert it to sata or usb so is it possible to convert that particular drive
as it no more use in that particlar laptop
waiting for the reply

By: Repair Man

Repair Man — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:37:40 +0000

Greg,

I was just wondering if the Dell Laptop DVD drives are different than the ones in the pictures as they do not match the connectors on my Dell Latitude!

I cannot tell without looking at the drive you are using. Different laptop might use different DVD drives.

By: Repair Man

Repair Man — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:26:52 +0000

@ Nick,

I would be very grateful if anybody could advice me how to replace DVD RW drive in Acer Aspire 3660. Can’t find anything on the internet and after checking all the screws on the bottom came to realise that none are responsible for holding unit in place.

I don’t have instructions for this model, but if you cannot find correct screws on the bottom, most likely the are located under the keyboard.
On some laptops it’s necessary to remove the keyboard in order to remove the DVD drive.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:37:57 +0000

I would be very grateful if anybody could advice me how to replace DVD RW drive in Acer Aspire 3660. Can’t find anything on the internet and after checking all the screws on the bottom came to realise that none are responsible for holding unit in place. PC World employee didn’t have a clue either. Is there a way to crack this “mysterious” model as DVD RW drive is on its last legs?
Many thanks

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:57:32 +0000

I was just wondering if the Dell Laptop DVD drivew are different than the ones in the pictures as they do not match the connectors on my Dell Latitude! Do you have an USB enclosure for the Dell Latitudes?

THanks!

By: Mike Grant

Mike Grant — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:10:28 +0000

Well I have a gateway p172s with a TS-T632A optical drive. It has always had trouble with recognizing blank media, I can find no new firmware nor drivers for it. It now does not see any media. Is there a good replacement for this drive, it has the slimline connector and is a slot loader.

Thanks for any help.
Mike Grant.

By: AMS

AMS — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:34:58 +0000

Hi, i’ve the DVD burner from my Sony Vaio. It stopped working after i burned the DVD, and there was some slight clicking sound when it happened, after that moment, the drive doesn’t recognise any of the optical disks. I’ve went through other sources also, read that optical calibration is necessary. So i’m looking forward to how to calibrate the potentiometers in that drive, cause there is very small spaces. For those of desktop ones its easy to calibrate while the disk is reading, but its hard to do for the laptop ones. Plz, reply soon on my query. Thanks in advance.

By: Sanoj

Sanoj — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:23:40 +0000

hi i have a laptop with a cd dvd/rw. with atapi connector. it happened that my writer got faulty. and when i searched, i found out the problem too. there is a strip or say ribbon cable below the tray, it was long and it actually got stuck in b/w the tray n base n it developed crack.
So i opened my drive fully n found out that this cable can be changed.
now the question is where can i get this cable??? or i will have to search for another faulty writer to replace it with.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:05:59 +0000

Hi,
I was wondering if you can help me. I have just borrowed a neoware laptop on which, unfortunately, I can not find an optical disk drive. I was just wondering if it was hidden or if there was anything you could reccomend for me to do.
Many thanks.

By: R.Postam

R.Postam — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:50:23 +0000

i have inserted very old cd trying 2 make a copy when i eject only the half part of the cd came out..i haven’t opened my laptop yet. im just checking what ican see from outside it seems the dvd writer is clear i tried to insert another cd and it’s working i checked the place where the incident happened i can’t see the other half of the old cd..i was worrying maybe it goes to the sensitive part of the laptop..pleAse help me..ill be happy if i could hear from you..BIG thank’s! please send or post me a reply