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Old 10-14-2008, 10:46 AM   #15 (permalink)
Vigilante
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Meh I go to ebay for failed drives. You can search model + drive type and find hundreds of matching items, new. If I'm being frugal I just take an old drive from another laptop and swap the faceplates and mounting hardware. All the drives are the same standard, just like desktop CD/DVD and hard drives, so it's just a matter of taking the OEM equipment off and adding it to the new drive. I've even swapped LCD panels among different brands and came out ahead. Had a sony with a fried motherboard and a good dell with a bad panel, so I just swapped the sony screen into the dell casing and it worked like a charm . Not all of them can do that, but the data plugs matched this time around so I was good to go.
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