Pls need your urgent help - DVD drive is broken

In my laptop LG was broken DVD-CDRW device, model - Toshiba sd-r9012, it has only 9.5mm thickness, ultraslim, and i cannot find the place to buy it in Moscow.
Would you please to sell me that device or advice compatible with it devices (internal dvd-rw or dvd-cdrw)?
Best regards
Pavlov Evgeniy
[Edited by: admin on 20-Aug-05 14:13]

Hello
You can contact Toshiba service partner in Moscow. I am pretty sure that they can order this drive for you. Other way you can contact the notebook manufacturer and ask them which drives are compatible with it.
Check these pages
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_gaspLocator.jsp?pf=true
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/eu/contact/details.asp?group=By+Country
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