Having built a few OEM laptops and repaired a few the drives are
mostly the same barring custom carriage or faceplates

In real old ones there might be some hardware compstability issues but
that's in 6+ year old machines

On 3/6/09, Jim March <1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>But I called Red7, and they told me "typically", you can't replace an
>>> internal
> drive with anything but the same drive, so my only option is to get a USB
> powered drive.<<
>
> Then you called somebody at Red7 who has no clue.
>
> The vast majority of lappies don't care at all what drive you stick in
> there.  And most lappies take most drives.  The only possible "gotcha"
> is that most lappies today have a perfectly rectangular outer face
> cutout (and outer face panel for the DVD drive) while a few use one
> with a "notch cutout" in the bottom-right corner.
>
> If yours is a straight rectangle, it's easy to find another lappy-type
> drive with a rectangular panel.  Once you have the original drive out,
> there is usually some sort of "chassis" that adapts the drive to that
> particular laptop - sometimes it's just a single screw bracket, other
> times it's more elaborate.  Doesn't matter.  Just transfer the bracket
> or chassis from your factory DVD drive to the new one, slide it right
> in, bolt it down.  Presto-bingo, done.
>
> Jim
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