Blu-ray ROM

I have an HP pavilion dv2000 and I need to replace my rom drive.  I tried searching online but can only find a compatible blu-ray drive on a shady website.  Can anyone help?

Hi,
The following procedure will test if your notebook can start from a bootable disc in the CD/DVD drive - the advantage of trying this is that it will rule out any possible Windows driver error as the CD/DVD drive is under the control of the Bios when starting the notebook.  So if you find that the notebook will not boot from the CD or DVD, then it's almost certainly a Hardware fault in the optical drive itself will need to be replaced.
Using another PC to create a Windows 7 Rescue CD and DVD.  Download the relevant ISO from the link below.
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64bit
You need use an application such as ImgBurn to correctly burn the ISO to a CD and then also burn it to a DVD - a guide on using ImgBurn to write an ISO to a disc is Here.  Once created, insert the CD and then restart the notebook and see if it boots from this disc - if it does, let the first screen come up ( this will show repair options ect ) then just remove the CD, insert the DVD and restart the notebook again to see if it will also boot from this disc.  If the notebook will not boot from the CD, it may just load straight into Windows, in which case, just remove the CD, insert the DVD and restart to see if it will boot from this disc.
Let me know.
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