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Hard drives and optical drives are the most failure-prone items on a laptop. They're also among the easiest to swap out, upgrade, or, in some cases, live without. Here are the best fixes for saving, ...

The drives are picky, I've seen Thomson drives that read everything and Samsung drives that read nothing, generally though Samsung drives are the best at reading all media.

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