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Blackstar
08-10-2008, 15:38
I need to remove the dvd drive (which hasn't worked in about a year and a half) from my laptop (Acer Aspire 1360) and i've failed at the internet trying to find how you do it. I think it'll be a simple catch or screw but can see nothing.
Help :(
leowyatt
08-10-2008, 15:42
what you might need to do is remove the HD as with some there is a screw undereath that holding the optical drive in.

EDIT: There might be 2 scews on the bottom of the case holding it in too.
Burble
08-10-2008, 15:47
Removing optical drives can vary from just pushing a button the acts on a mechanism and pushes the drive out of the laptop (like my Dell D830) to having to take the laptop to pieces to undo internal screws.
leowyatt
08-10-2008, 15:52
Right looking at the manual (ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_1360/manual/as1360-uk.pdf) for that laptop if there is a screw holding it in it will be under the compartment that isn't labelled memory :)
LeperousDust
08-10-2008, 15:53
Removing optical drives can vary from just pushing a button the acts on a mechanism and pushes the drive out of the laptop (like my Dell D830) to having to take the laptop to pieces to undo internal screws.

I was about to post the same thing, it really depends so unless someone owns your laptop (or you come bring it round to me...) it's hard to do over t'internet.
leowyatt
08-10-2008, 15:56
Well done Lozza, was about to say I have a service guide here :D
Belmit
08-10-2008, 16:04
Most of the ones I've tried just slide in and out, but are secured by a single screw... somewhere. The fun is finding it!
leowyatt
08-10-2008, 16:38
Just a shame i can't find the one for my travelmate 230!

what do you need to do?
Blackstar
09-10-2008, 23:45
Done, it was just a single screw i came back from work and dad had done it all but now everything has now been made legal and fixed i have to reinstall everything and have lost all my passwords and bookmarks. Wonderful :).
AboveTheSalt
10-10-2008, 09:14
- - - give it all a good clean as it overheats a lot - - -I was given a "broken" laptop a while ago; it wouldn't start.

I used a powerful domestic vacuum cleaner to suck a load of filth out of the CPU cooling fan air intake and all of a sudden the laptop started working. It only had 256MB RAM and a small disk so I maxed out the RAM and fitted a new, larger HDD and I now have a perfectly usable laptop - RESULT!