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Swap Macbook Air SuperDrive into Macbook
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<blockquote data-quote="farmdreads" data-source="post: 983004" data-attributes="member: 83151"><p>I got the Macbook from someone off of craigslist and he said the drive stopped working one day. He thought it was from picking up the computer when a disk was spinning. I didn;t think this was the problem. So I did some research and it seems that a lot of MB superdrives stopped working after the 2.0 firmware. I am assuming that he installed the Apple update and it probably stopped working after this. I don;t know for sure. I tried to flash the drive with a patch (simpleflash) but that didn't seem to work. How can an update kill a superdrive? Can't it just be reversed?</p><p>And yes, I was talking about opening up a MB Air superdrive and swapping them out. The MB Air drives seem to be cheaper - maybe it's because they aren't compatible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmdreads, post: 983004, member: 83151"] I got the Macbook from someone off of craigslist and he said the drive stopped working one day. He thought it was from picking up the computer when a disk was spinning. I didn;t think this was the problem. So I did some research and it seems that a lot of MB superdrives stopped working after the 2.0 firmware. I am assuming that he installed the Apple update and it probably stopped working after this. I don;t know for sure. I tried to flash the drive with a patch (simpleflash) but that didn't seem to work. How can an update kill a superdrive? Can't it just be reversed? And yes, I was talking about opening up a MB Air superdrive and swapping them out. The MB Air drives seem to be cheaper - maybe it's because they aren't compatible. [/QUOTE]
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