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[Solved] How to repair a laptop cd drive

Forum Laptops & Notebooks : General Discussion [Solved] How to repair a laptop cd drive

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Hello,
My laptop was dropped and now I can't open the CD/DVD drive. I tried the paperclip in the hole it won't open. Can anyone help

Reply to ttrainor

Your best bet is just to replace it. You about can't do anything to fix an optical drive when it breaks like that.

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Reply to anort3

Thanks, just what I was hoping NOT to hear! Could I take a CD drive from an old laptop and install it into the HP somehow or am I just wishful thinking? Otherwise can you give me an idea as to cost for replacement? Thanks so much for your help! TT

Reply to ttrainor

Second thought: is it broken beyond repair or just jammed.

Reply to ttrainor

Best answer

Generally you can't fix even a desktop DVD/CD drive. The good news is that a new one is really cheap. Do you happen to know if it's a SATA drive or not? If not post the model of your laptop and I can look it up.

New drive. This will work great if it's a SATA drive you are replacing.

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Reply to ttrainor

It is a SATA drive so the one I linked to above will work fine.

Now I am not sure how easy installing the new drive will be, but it should not be too hard. If you can't figure it out and don't have a tech person you can go to for help you can always take it to a small "mom and pop" type computer shop and I would guess they would not charge you much to install the new drive. I would not take it to Best Buy or any of the big retaillers though, they are likely to charge you more.