About a month after I bought my Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1XP, I nocked it off the desk. It seemed that everything was alright but recently the DVD writer has been failing to write and it doesn’t read some of the old disks I burnt. I decided to get a new drive so off to eBay I went and managed to get one for £30. Bonus.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find out how to actually get in to the damn thing to get it out. Well I figured it out and here it is:

1. Hold down the F1, F2 and Num Lock key and while doing this, slide the keyboard backwards.
2. There are three screws holding down the palm rest / mouse pad thing. Undo these
3. Slide the palm rest towards you.
4. There’s one screw holding down the DVD drive. Undo this and then slide the drive out.
5. Put new one in and then repeat these backwards.

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