Combo drive replacement help plz!!!

My combo drive stopped working suddenly. My warranty also got void last month (forgot to renew, my bad).
Can I replace my MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8123 with a 8121A Combo Drive?
Also please give your suggestions where can I get a good drive (used/new) and also get it repaired.
Thanks in advance.

First welcome to the discussions.
Have a look here and see if this helps. There are several different companies that make new drives available this is just one.
http://www.mcetech.com/pbg4dvdr8dl.html
Good Luck Don

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Contact the Better Business Bureau and/or your State's consumer protection department about the rip off.
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Hi
Seems you have already noticed that the drive replacement is not so easy.
The internal notebook drives dont support any jumpers like the external drives for desktop PCs and the settings are fixed and in my knowledge not changeable
I found some compatible drives numbers but unfortunately, I did not find the drive names.
It seems this are any internal part numbers.
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Leslie, Welcome to Apple Discussions.You may wish to opt for an firewire external DVD-RW drive. Here's an example. This will be far easier to do; the internal upgrade is not for the faint hearted:
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I've been reading some posts and there is a ton of knowledge here, so maybe somebody could share some info with me. My situation is this:
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