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    DVD & HDD Upgrade for Asus W5F

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by acid_clown, Jul 23, 2008.

  1. acid_clown

    acid_clown Newbie

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    HI,
    My dvd and hard drive both died at the same time a few weeks back, and i need to know what dvd drive is compatible, it takes a uj-832 9.5mm. Will any 9.5mm dvd drive work?
    Also i need to get a new hard drive, will any 2.5mm U-DMA drive fit?

    thanks
     
    acid_clown, Jul 23, 2008
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  2. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    uj-832 sounds like a panasonic drive. You can install any optical drive you like as long as it has the same interface.
    Note, their may be an adaptor or a housing which your current optical drive is in. You must take it apart in order to install your new optical drive in that bay or to connect the proper adaptor.

    I dont think they measure 2.5mm, they usually measure measure 9.5mm or 12.7mm, but U-DMA is right. All laptops use parallel ata based optical drives, so you should not have any connectivity issues.

    Just a side note, are you sure both are dead, it seems very odd for both to die at the same time. I have never seen a dead dvd drive, so you may want to test the harddrive and the optical drive in another system.

    here is the same optical drive:
    http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Panasonic-UJ-822-UJ-812-DVD-RW-CDRW-Drive-ROM-9-5mm_W0QQitemZ260233159086QQcmdZViewItem

    They are really expensive, and I wonder why, it is probably cause yours is the slimmer 9.5mm thick ones.
    I remember I bought some 12.7mm thick pioneer bruners about a year ago and they were DVR-K06's and I go two of them for $95

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jul 23, 2008
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  3. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Any 9.5 OD (optical drive) with a slim-line IDE connector will work....buy the same drive (as suggested by K-Tron), since you won't have trouble with the housings and the bezel, though most drives have a similar bezel..!! (Search a bit hard on ebay, and you may find a cheap one....I bought an NEC super-multi for $16 in an auction)

    And do you mean UDMA HDD (IDE HDD)..?? Confirm which connector the HDD has and if it is an IDE HDD you need to install, you will need an OD flashed in slave mode..!!
     
    Andy, Jul 23, 2008
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