Sony external dvd burner driver upgrade#
When I get a minute i'll have to mention it to the guy in the Sony shop who told me that Sony didn't offer an internal upgrade solution because "DVD writers are bigger and extend a lot further back inside the computer". Get the best deals on Sony External Dvd Burner and find everything youll need to improve your home office setup at. Hope this info might be useful to someone else. 99 Disc Drive for Microsoft Xbox One Replacement Part Console Repair.
Sony external dvd burner driver driver#
The front bezel looks different but not too wierd and that drive is now being used as an extra DVD-reader and convenient means of transferring stuff between work and home. This driver allows the system to communicate with the external device Custom Xbox. The Sony drive is now sitting in the Lite-On USB box. A quick spray with paint to match the colour of the VAIO made the job look much less obvious.Įverything worked fine and my mate is very happy. I decided against modifying the Sony bezel in case we had to put the original drive back in for any reason, and trimmed down the bezel that had come with the Lite-On and which was shaped to fit the casing of the external USB box. The only hurdle came when I realised that the front bezel from the Sony drive didn't fit properly to the front of the Lite-On drive's tray. (I've subsequently found another UK supplier that is selling the bare drive SDW-431S for just under £80 )Īfter getting the drive apart the transfer was pretty straightforward. You were right about them being hard to find and expensive! After much searching that turned up several in the £150+ range, it actually seemed to be cheapest to buy an external slimline DVDRW (a Liteon SDW-431SX) and remove the drive from that. I'd been told by the Sony dealer - and some other computer parts sellers - that it wasn't possible to swap the DVD/CDRW combo for a DVD writer, so it was encouraging to learn that slimline writers have standard dimensions when you get them out of their modules. The advice that you gave was very helpful. Oh, and something else: slimline DVD burners are expeeeeeeeeeensive!Įnigma47 - I just thought I'd post a follow up in case anyone else is trying to do the same thing. I have no idea whether Sony makes their own slim DVD burners or if they rebrand some other company's (most likely LiteOn, as they have a strategic partnership). Froogle might be a good place to start looking.Īs a final note, Sony's slimline combo drives are actually re-branded versions of the LiteOn slim combo drives. In the US, it took some searching to find a place that would sell them. Just like the H/H optical drives that fit into a standard 5.25 inch bay, slimline drives all have the same dimensions and interface (in the case of Dell, for example, their optical drive upgrades are sold in the form of their media bay module, so it would seem as if they're incompatible, but if you ever unscrew the module and open it up, you'll see that a standard slimline drive is sitting inside the casing), so you should be able to just purchase a drive from any manufacturer. Slimline optical drives should all be interchangeable. Slimline optical drives are hard to find on the market because most of them get sold to computer makers and not to consumers.