[iBook] Success replacing DVD/CDRW in dual USB iBook

[Jean-Paul Thuot]

Good on you, David.  You're a far braver man than I.

Jean-Paul

On 6/26/05, David Linker <dtlinker at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Dear listers,
> 
> I just replaced the Toshiba DVD/CDRW in my 600 MHz dual USB iBook.
> 
> The original drive stopped working two weeks ago, in my iBook which I
> have had since October 2001. I called Apple and it was going to cost ~
> $300 to fix. I found that I could buy a replacement drive for $112.
> It would be an exact replacement, so that I could use the same door
> bezel.
> 
> I had read some accounts of doing this on the web, but most said that
> this was hard and recommended against it. I decided to try anyway,
> using the accounts that I found on the web.
> 
> I had a handicap. I had my two kids (4 and 8) watching, and sometimes
> bumping the table and containers I had the screws in. In spite of
> that, I finished in 3 hours, and only had four screws left over, and
> it works!
> 
> If I were to do it again, I would use a related description for the
> hard drive of a 500 MHz iBook, which had templates to mark the
> location of the screws for later placement. There are lots of screws,
> with different sizes even for the same "function".
> 
> It was nerve-wracking at times, but I am happy with the results.
> 
> David Linker
> 
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