Frankly if something on the drive broke and you want a stand alone cd drive (no burner) I would say just buy a new cd drive or even a dvd drive. You can get a good non burner cd or dvd drive for very cheap. It could probably be fixed but really it is not worth the time, effort, or expense with how cheap optical drive are nowadays.
If you can change a fan belt on a car (something I'd have a little bit of trouble with), you can change out a CDROM. It's simply 4 scr*ws, a power connector, and a data cable. Take out the old drive, slide the new one in, reconnect the cables.
It really isn't worth trying to fix the CD drive with the broken belt, just replace it if you want to have two drives. It will not hurt anything to leave it in the computer.
If you do want to replace it I would recommend that you consider getting this drive:
No Blujay.. It likely would make little noticeable difference.. I noticed that JW50 gave some links to a DVD drive (even though his links are broken) But you might consider that.. They've gotten cheaper and will give you the option to record DVD's (don't worry they do CD's just fine)
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Thanks, found the info. I realized when I clicked on the links that something was mucked up, so just didn't comment on it.. And went on my merry way investigating the newegg site.
My thanks for your help and my sympathies to you and all who post links in these poor excuses for help forums, especially the critical ones in the Security Forum..
But I really haven't a clue.
