I don't believe you. All those cases have 2 or 4 screws you simply unscrew to get to the inside and swap out the drive. Takes about 5 minutes worst case. Your Dual 2.5 G5 is a Pioneer-DVR108 8x Superdrive and you can upgrade the firmware to 1.2 to add +R Dual Layer capability to it. If you want a set of that firmware upgrade just email me off list. What makes you think your DVR-108 needs replacing? 8x not fast enough for you? -- Taylor Barcroft New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 barcroft (gizmo) kungax (Skype) kungag5 (iChat-AIM) On Feb 19, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > I can't open the external case without damage so I might replace > the internal CD writer of my G5/2.5.