Introduction
If you are unable to play a CD/DVD on your laptop, there is most likely damage to the optical drive. Use this guide to help replace the drive in order to restore the laptop back to normal working conditions.
What you need
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Slide the battery removal switch towards the center of the laptop until the battery pops out.
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Unscrew the two 4mm Phillips #0 screws found in the surface panel.
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Using the spudger, pry the surface panel off starting from the side where the battery was located.
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Pry the remainder of the panel off by sliding the spudger underneath the panel and gently lifting.
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Use the screwdriver to remove the 4mm Phillips #0 screw holding the optical drive in.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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What do you do when the DVD drive will NOT slide out? That’s my problem. There’s no disk inside; the unit is simply stuck shut. Now what do you do?
For me, the DVD drive connection had, what I think was soda, inside of the port and it acted like a sort of glue so brute force may be the option.
After a deep cleaning of the connections, it worked like new.
