if its still in warranty let them do it. otherwise. it takes an hour or so . I did it on the kitchen table with the kids away to prevent screws from being lost.
Where did you get the replacement drive? Dell says they will not sell them because of teh 'factory-installation' requirement. I have been looking on Ebay, but can't seem to find an exact match...
Did you ever find a place to buy the CDR/DVD for the inspiron 1000? My son just returned from Iraq and found out his warranty expired on 2/2/2006. It appears Dell sent him the option to extend his warrenty unfortunatly because the mail is so slow getting there and in the processes of shipping back to the states he just now received the notice. Anyway it has been put on my shoulders to try and fix it as a military budget is pretty slim these days. Any help on where to find the parts and instructions on performing the operation would be greatly appreciated. By the way I've been a computer tech for about 20 years now so you don't need to baby me just pass on the gotcha's.
I did find quite a few on e-bay and it appears that to change it out requires removing a screw from the bottom of the laptop and then prying it out. Is it really that simple or is that an over simplification?
there are 2 screws...one near the corner and one right above the label (about the center of the laptop) undo those, gently pry out the drive and it slides right on out....takes all of 10 minutes MAX
My DVD-ROM/CDRW drive just died yesterday. Bought this thing in October 2004. Some sort of hardware failure pertaining to power circuitry. Drive not seen by system, and inserted CD cannot be removed. No power to drive.
First time I noticed that something was wrong, was after a Windows upgrade. At first, I thought it was some sort of driver incompatibility.
There is another similar article posted listing bixnet as a source. I have found better prices on the internet (below $95) by doi ng google searches on "slim dvd notebook drive".
Evidently, any slim dvd/cdrw can be used. Makes sense. Computer companies generally adopt the prevailing hardware drive standards in order to keep from running into shortages if one drive manufacturer decommits from shipping drives or components.
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Did you ever find a place to buy the CDR/DVD for the inspiron 1000? My son just returned from Iraq and found out his warranty expired on 2/2/2006. It appears Dell sent him the option to extend his warrenty unfortunatly because the mail is so slow getting there and in the processes of shipping back to the states he just now received the notice. Anyway it has been put on my shoulders to try and fix it as a military budget is pretty slim these days. Any help on where to find the parts and instructions on performing the operation would be greatly appreciated. By the way I've been a computer tech for about 20 years now so you don't need to baby me just pass on the gotcha's.
Thanks!
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First time I noticed that something was wrong, was after a Windows upgrade. At first, I thought it was some sort of driver incompatibility.
There is another similar article posted listing bixnet as a source. I have found better prices on the internet (below $95) by doi ng google searches on "slim dvd notebook drive".
Evidently, any slim dvd/cdrw can be used. Makes sense. Computer companies generally adopt the prevailing hardware drive standards in order to keep from running into shortages if one drive manufacturer decommits from shipping drives or components.