Combo drive stopped working, and not recognised

I know there has been a few post about the combo drive stopping working on the PowerBook.
I have not dropped the machine, and it has had no accidents. Was wondering if anyone had any advise as to what to try to trouble shoot this problem, or is it more than likely a hardware fault?
Many thanks in advance and Happy Holidays.
Richard

I have a powerbook g4 just bought a few months ago from a friend. I have always a pc guy, and use to work on Macs (desktop publishing) but was more into the gaming for fun. Well, I as I mentioned I bought this powerbook G4 for a good price (so I thought) and after a few months the combo drive stopped functioning properly, then it died completely. I brought to a certified Mac repair center and was astounded at the cost to replace was going to be, it was between $400 and $500.00. This blew me away, I have to replace DVD Burners on PC's in past and it cost me about $40.00. I tried, and the key word was tried to contact someone at Apple through email and never got a response. I finally called over the phone and was told it would cost about over $500.00 to repair. Well, I guess I am going to stay a PC guy, was actually considering one of the new IMacs, but it most likely will cost a lot of money to do any repairs on it, it looks like it has similar drive. FU Apple!

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