Moving Blu-Rat player out of its dedicated player and putting it into a computer.

spartanamy107 · 29 Mar 2016 at 17:31

Yeah I know this is going to sound mega cheapskate, but I have a broken old Blu-Ray player the only problem is that it won't power on due to a broken capacitor somewhere... my question is... can I remove it and put it into a computer? Desktop or Laptop?

It has SATA leads, not sure I recognise the power leads though. I'll upload some pictures later, I've never done this before but it's an old piece of equipment so nothing to lose...

The disk drive appears to be in a protective case within the player.

Any help and advice would be appreciated.

JonSmith · 29 Mar 2016 at 17:45

It should be possible yes. I have done the reverse (put a PC DVD drive into a player with a broken drive).

Could you identify the power connector type?

spartanamy107 · 29 Mar 2016 at 18:03

JonSmith said:
It should be possible yes. I have done the reverse (put a PC DVD drive into a player with a broken drive).

Could you identify the power connector type?

It's a 4 cable plug barely more than a centimetre in width it looks more familiar than what I originally thought.

JonSmith · 29 Mar 2016 at 18:05

If you google floppy drive power connector does it look like that?

spartanamy107 · 29 Mar 2016 at 18:08

JonSmith said:
If you google floppy drive power connector does it look like that?

Indeed looks almost the same.

spartanamy107 · 29 Mar 2016 at 18:15

Okay don't think this is going to work the whole unit is too big... internal blu ray players are compact this this has the circuit board underneath it externally... and is bigger than a 5.25 bay drive.

Oh well...