Replacing a MBP DVD-RW

iraiguana

iraiguana

iraiguana

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Hi all,

Has anyone tried replacing the DVD-RW in their MBP (mine is a late 2007 model). It has recently decided to accept discs, but is unable to read them properly so after a few seconds of spinning up will automatically spit them out again.

Tried resetting the SMC and all the rest of the poor ideas that the apple support website suggests, and not too sure if anything but replacing the drive will solve my problem.

If your drive has failed in the past did you try replacing or just stump up for the USB drive?

Drive details:
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N
Firmware Revision: AP09
Interconnect: ATAPI

Cheers for any help!
 
My early 08 MB does that and I've not yet bothered replacing it (nearly £150 just for the drive) and I've not got a USB drive yet as I manage all I need over USB pen and network.
 
If it were me then I'd replace the drive with an SSD and just get and external USB drive for the few occasions it's needed.
 
Mine was replaced under warranty and subsequently stopped working again. The superdrive/dvd-rw drives in every Mac I've ever owned have been fubar'd within about 6 months of purchase. I just bought a shiny external drive instead. :p
 
The drives in macs can be pretty poor. Maybe replace your drive with a slot loading bluray internal drive?
 
Does anyone know if you can just use a generic slot loading drive and do a direct replacement as replacing with an apple part is just far too expensive compared to an external drive?
 
iraiguana said:
Does anyone know if you can just use a generic slot loading drive and do a direct replacement as replacing with an apple part is just far too expensive compared to an external drive?
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I don't see why not. The optical drive in the MBP is just a generic slot loading drive. Although make sure you order one that has a similar connector, be it SATA or ATAPI.

Slim SATA

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Slim ATAPI / IDE

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You'll know when (if) you take the drive out yourself what you should need.
 
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I'm not sure if you can use a generic one? I've read through the service manual on the macbook and it looks quite crammed around it so I'm not sure a std will do? might be wrong thou (hope I am and I can fix it on the cheap :) )
 
It's a standard slimline drive. The only proprietary parts will be the brackets (if indeed it has any) that mount to and hold the drive in place. What's the model number of your MBP? It should have it printed on the underside where it has the "Designed by Apple in California" spiel.
 
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a mac book pro i opened had some sort of connector plug lik you get inside iphones.
 
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