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[Jovu]

I had an old Western Digital external hard drive lying around, & the superdrive on my macbook pro is bust, so I ripped the old case open & took out the board that has USB, power & SATA, & plugged in a DVD drive where the hard drive would have been. It powers up & all, just snow leopard won't recognise it as a superdrive, in system profiler it shows up as an external hard drive.

EDIT: A fix for the superdrive, at first it was spitting out almost every DVD or CD I inserted without mounting, reading the odd one, I was about to give up & buy a new one when I decided taking the superdrive apart & cleaning the laser by hand couldn't hurt, so I did, & it works great!

[Belldandy]

how do you take them apart?
i have an odd thing my laptop is doing… it will read cd's but not DVD's ... what's going on?  Do you think cleaning it will help mine read Dvd's?  sorry im a newbie and dont know much.