One hint, though, and let me know if anyone else was careless about this like me, but that thin metal bracket that goes around the original drive is S H A R P ! ! ! ! O U C H ! ! ! I cut both index fingers, and I was MAD! Apparently it is also attached underneath the original drive, so don't just take out the visible screws and start reefin' on it, because it won't move - your flesh will! In fact, I did what someone mentioned in another post, namely just set the desired drive on top of the old one and hook it up to see if it works first, and I was immediately playing discs that are normally rejected, and I made a test disc that way too, no problems. Let me tell you, I am sure I now have an UNSTOPPABLE machine now! The new drive starts recording WHEN YOU PRESS RECORD, not sometime later the same day, and finalization takes about 20 seconds!Īnyway, I thought I would have my first post tell some of the more squeamish users out there that it was no big deal at all to swap out the drives. installed a much stronger PC-style LiteOn drive (I had an extra in my tower from years back) So, after reading some tips here and there, I have: I have a coveted LiteOn LVW-5005 and have had no problems with it for 2 and a half years so far, except that the drive was really picky for the last year or so (really picky in the last month about media). New to the forum, but I've been reading it for years, back when we were all just making VCDs and such.
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