How to remove CD Rom drive from Gateway laptop M-6750

tyl604 · 08-05-2009, 02:31 PM

Vista will not recognize the optical drive (does not show up in Device Manager or My Computer). I want to unplug the data and power from the CD ROM, then plug it back in to see if Vista will recognize the DVD/CD Rom again. How do I get the DVD/CD Rom drive out? Does not seem to be a driver problem.

Thx.

makinu1der2 · 08-05-2009, 10:06 PM

Hello,

Is the drive detected in the BIOS?

Go to the manufacturer website and look at the user guide.

http://support.gateway.com/support/s...67_Series.html

Remove the power and battery.

Remove screw under the dvd drive.

Slide drive out of bay.

tyl604 · 08-06-2009, 06:47 AM

Mak - thanks for the advice. The problem is resolved. I tried to remove the CD drive by removing a single screw and pulling it out. It would not come out - there must be something else holding it in and I could not find a diagram telling exactly how to get it out. So I gave up, pushed the drive back in securely, and put the screw back in. When I fired it up, magically Vista recognized the drive again and it worked fine.

I had already looked at the Gateway support page and could not find anything to show how to remove the drive. In case I want to replace it in the future, is there a diagram there that I could not find. You seem to suggest that it would just slide out but that did not work on this laptop.

So it must have been a bad connection; needed to be jiggered around and tightened back up.

Thanks for the help.

08-05-2009, 02:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
tyl604 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Vista Premium	How to remove CD Rom drive from Gateway laptop M-6750 Vista will not recognize the optical drive (does not show up in Device Manager or My Computer). I want to unplug the data and power from the CD ROM, then plug it back in to see if Vista will recognize the DVD/CD Rom again. How do I get the DVD/CD Rom drive out? Does not seem to be a driver problem. Thx.

08-05-2009, 10:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
makinu1der2 Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 2,038 OS: Vista Home Premium SP1,Win XP SP3,Ubuntu 9.04,Sabayon 4,Windows 7 RC1 x64 My System	Re: How to remove CD Rom drive from Gateway laptop M-6750 Hello, Is the drive detected in the BIOS? Go to the manufacturer website and look at the user guide. http://support.gateway.com/support/s...67_Series.html Remove the power and battery. Remove screw under the dvd drive. Slide drive out of bay. __________________ "The dumbest people I know are those who know it all."

08-06-2009, 06:47 AM	#3 (permalink)
tyl604 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Vista Premium	Re: How to remove CD Rom drive from Gateway laptop M-6750 Mak - thanks for the advice. The problem is resolved. I tried to remove the CD drive by removing a single screw and pulling it out. It would not come out - there must be something else holding it in and I could not find a diagram telling exactly how to get it out. So I gave up, pushed the drive back in securely, and put the screw back in. When I fired it up, magically Vista recognized the drive again and it worked fine. I had already looked at the Gateway support page and could not find anything to show how to remove the drive. In case I want to replace it in the future, is there a diagram there that I could not find. You seem to suggest that it would just slide out but that did not work on this laptop. So it must have been a bad connection; needed to be jiggered around and tightened back up. Thanks for the help.