How do I take apart my external Iomega CDRW drive?

[Pimp Racer]

Well sounds easy does it not? Think AGAIN! I have spent HOURS UPON HOURS trying to take this thing apart! I am almost about to break this damn thing if I cant take it apart!

I have taken out every screw I see. Now I just need to remove the body panels but I cant seem to do it! Seems almost impossible! I want to take it apart and replace the CDRW drive it has with a DVD RW drive. So I can have an external DVD-RW drive.

So what I want to do is take this -

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[evoWalo]

i dont think it's possible. you'd probably ruin your drive in the process.

[saadie]

its not possible ... seems to me tht the external drive is usb :D ... it dosnt really mean theres a power plug as well as a IDE in the box .. so ... imo dont do it ... :?

[Pimp Racer]

Ah yes it is possible! I had to kinda break the blue part but I did it anyways! And to my suprise its possible and now I have the DVD RW burner in and ready to work! It works perfectly fine on my IBM Thinkpad laptop but for my PC I need a damn driver. SO now I am off looking for a freaking driver! :( If ANYONE can help me find a driver then its gonna be much appericiated! I have searched now for about 30 mins looking for one but no luck! :(

Info - Sony Internal 16X DVD+/-RW / Double Layer Drive Black, Model DW-D22A-B2,

My model is a - "DW-D22A-B2" if that helps. :D

[saadie]

hehe ... yer never gonne find a driver fer tht :p .... u'll prolly have to hijack a driver from another dual layer dvd writer ... OR ... you prolly wanna try getting the same version of windows tht yea got in yer laptop

[Pimp Racer]

hehe ... yer never gonne find a driver fer tht :p .... u'll prolly have to hijack a driver from another dual layer dvd writer ... OR ... you prolly wanna try getting the same version of windows tht yea got in yer laptop

Laptop has 2000 I think and I am using 98 SE rite now I think? SO I guess I am screwed! I tried Sony's site and no luck! :( But on my laptop I just plugged it in and it worked! But on this damn PC it nots like that WTF?

[saadie]

lol .. dude ... yer outdated ..... :P
ok .. here the deal .... 2000 and XP have big packages of builtin drivers .. so yea might wanna start using XP .. its shyt yea .. but it helps when nothing else can ....
and thats exactly where 98 screws the user :P hehe ... imo yer ... new ... device thing will work on any computer thts got 2000 or XP 8)

[Pimp Racer]

lol .. dude ... yer outdated ..... :P
ok .. here the deal .... 2000 and XP have big packages of builtin drivers .. so yea might wanna start using XP .. its shyt yea .. but it helps when nothing else can ....
and thats exactly where 98 screws the user :P hehe ... imo yer ... new ... device thing will work on any computer thts got 2000 or XP 8)

Outdated indeed. Not a big gamer on the computer so didnt need to buy another computer. Rite now I am using a Dell XPS T600 or something which cost 2300. Rip off rite now but in the day was pretty good! Anyways I am gonna try and copy the driver files from the lap top to the PC. :D

[saadie]

hmm k .... 2000 and 98 drivers are really really different .. hope it works :wink:

[Pimp Racer]

Nope didnt work. Gave up on it now. :( Maybe later in the future?

[saadie]

yeah ... u better think of upgrading yer windoze :wink:

[Pimp Racer]

Yeah maybe later on? Maybe just buy a new computer? But parents are bitchs and dont really like it when I am on the comptuer. They try to make me stay off the computer! :lol: So I dont see a new computer in the future for sure! :lol:

[saadie]

lmao..... yer not alone .... the case is just abt same here ... ma parents hte me computer .. lol ...
what computer ahve yea got ??

[Pimp Racer]

lmao..... yer not alone .... the case is just abt same here ... ma parents hte me computer .. lol ...
what computer ahve yea got ??

Old School Dell XPS T600 - 600 MHZ??? 128 ram. 16 MB grahpics card and umm....12 gig HDD? 2300-2400 USD. :lol:

My IBM Think Pad - ?MHZ...ram? 20 gig HDD? Price = ???

My parents dont like to buy me computer shit but I am covered on everything else! Such as car and college and such. :)

[saadie]

hmm alright ..
well i got a celeron 1.7 256 ddr and got a geforce Fx5200 40 gigs .. not bad huh ..
im gettin sick of it ... :mrgreen:
well ... thter are three cars moms car .. my bro's car . and dad's car ... being the smallest i dun have a car . :cry: .. but i use all three of em :twisted: