Timeline for MacBook 7,1 internal optical drive not doing anything
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| Aug 1, 2020 at 17:42 | comment | added | Allan | Could be dry rot or if it was serviced at some point and the person was careless. You can try to get a replacement connector on eBay... should be cheap. Or get a HDD caddy and put a second drive in there for backup or move your spinning drive in there, buy an SSD and create a fusion drive for more speed and space. Or just ignoring it and use a USB external drive. | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 12:56 | comment | added | Priv | Well I just checked. The connector somehow completely broke off. I can freely move the upper part up and down while the other part still sticks into the motherboard... | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 19:07 | comment | added | Allan | Same process to remove the drive | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 18:58 | comment | added | Priv | It is a regular MacBook, not Pro or Air. MacBook 7,1. | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 18:17 | history | edited | Allan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 30, 2020 at 18:06 | history | edited | Allan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 30, 2020 at 17:58 | history | answered | Allan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |