On Nov 29, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Brooke Willis wrote:
No grinding noise... just stopped moving. Seems ridiculous that it would hit one bump and just die!
Yeah, usually it takes considerable abuse for that stuff to break. Try the 'yank on the end' thing anyway.
Fortunately,it's not an impossible repair to do and of all the components an optical drive is one of the cheapest to replace.
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