Replacing a laptop CD-Rom? Kryt! Halp!

nath

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Ello,

I've got a client with a reasonably old Toshiba laptop and the CD-Rom seems to be playing up, half the time it doesn't read CD's, at other times it works fine. I figure the CD drive is playing up and suggested perhaps getting an external one given that I figured replacing the internal one would be a major ballache and involve contacting Tosh etc.

Well it turns out that external cd drives look pretty lame - stupidly big and way more expensive than I expected. Then I saw this and figured perhaps I could just replace the cd drive. Is it just a case of slotting this in and replacing the bezel so that it fits nicely, or could compatibility be an issue?

Thanks in advance!
 

Starman

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Personally when I purchased a replacement for my old Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 laptop I used the adapter from the old DVD-ROM on the new DVD-RW.
 

nath

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Thanks for the info chaps. After all that the client has decided to do not bother with any of this. Still, handy stuff to know for the future :D
 

Kryten

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Ah well, sorry I couldn't take a look beforehand. I've a few specific Tosh drives, so if her changes his mind let me know.
 

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