[Cialug] OT: HP Pavillion DV1000 optical drive

[Paul Gray]

David Champion wrote:
> Does anyone have a HP Pavillion DV1000 (or similar) optical drive they'd 
> let me borrow? My brother (the other one that's not on this list) has a 
> laptop that I need to do an OS restore CD on, but the optical drive isn't 
> working.
> 
> If someone were able to bring it to the LUG meeting, I may be able to do 
> the install during the meeting... or if I could borrow the drive I'd 
> return it ASAP. The optical drive comes out very easily, you 
> just have to remove one screw and it slides out.

If you need a replacement drive for a more permanent solution, I have a 
large stack of slim DVD drives from "why would I need this in a server" 
situations.

I think that they're all CD write capable, but don't know if they're 
DVD-write capable.

-PG