Looking for an DVD burner for my laptop

Hi there,
I'm in the process of looking for a good but cheap DVD Drive that would fit into the laptop HP Pavilion DV7-3188cl. Can anyone please give me some advice?..Any help is greatly appreciated.. Thanks for the help in advance..
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Use your P/N on hp driver site and find the Service Manual and see what it list for OD that it uses and you can then use that to reference what DVD burner drive you can get. And if it is a Sata drive most Newer OD are sata you just have to make sure it is a DVD burner and then swap the faceplate to match the original one.
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