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raysuave
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_ 		15. March 2011 @ 11:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I need to replace a D2A or D2B (forget which one it is) DVD drive for my Wii. Some plastic pieces on the eject/accept mechanism have broken. All the drives I see for sale at a good price are the D3-2 DVD drives. The older drives are selling for over 100 bucks. The D3-2 drives are not capable of playing back-up discs which is a feature I want to keep. Can I replace the D3-2 board with my D2A or D2B board without any issues or drawbacks??
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penguin98
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_ 		15. March 2011 @ 14:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I dont think you can replace the drive board, if you can then it won't be done easily at least.

That said though my wii has an older drive in it and I haven't used a backup disk in over a year. It's just so much easier to use the USB loader.
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raysuave
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_ 		16. March 2011 @ 09:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by penguin98:
 I dont think you can replace the drive board, if you can then it won't be done easily at least.

That said though my wii has an older drive in it and I haven't used a backup disk in over a year. It's just so much easier to use the USB loader.
Yeah I know, this Wii belongs to my 12 year old niece who lives in another state so I want her to be able to copy "back-ups" to the hard drive....dont want her or her parents trying to install them any other way. I've read in places that swapping boards on drives is possible since connections are the same, just havent found what drive versions are able to be swapped.
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