Swapping disc drives?

[Nakawaka]

Im kinda curious if this will work or not hoping someone else has tried it already haha

anyway I have a Wii with a D2A drive(which no longer works properly)
and it has all my saves and such
I wanna know if I can swap in a new disk drive (a d2b I believe havent opened it yet) and recover all my saves

if no ones tried it yet Ill probably give it a go sometime this week whenever my WiiD gets here

[jweaver]

Yes you can.. It will work perfectly..

I had to do the same, because the teath on the cogs on the loading mechanism stripped.. But because I had an external socket on my Wii, I didn't want to have to do it again on the new one. So when I got my new Wii I simply replaced the drive. My original was a D2A and my replacement is a D2B and its working perfectly.

I hope this helps

Jon

[Nakawaka]

Sweet not only did the swap work perfectly fine, I also found out the drive I thought I previously bricked still works fine and its now in my new Wii with my cyclowiz running fine too

but my old wii still wont work properly, I think I damaged the pins on the cable or even possibly unplugged the cable on the motherboard

much thanks for the quick reply

[rnelson1415]

Nice to see that your old drive still works in the new Wii but I hope you get your old one figured out. Good luck!

[Souzar]

Sweet not only did the swap work perfectly fine, I also found out the drive I thought I previously bricked still works fine and its now in my new Wii with my cyclowiz running fine too

but my old wii still wont work properly, I think I damaged the pins on the cable or even possibly unplugged the cable on the motherboard

much thanks for the quick reply

Do you want to sell the old drive?, I've got a messed up drive and a working wii sitting here.

[Nakawaka]

I hope I get it working too it has all my saves so much hard work :'(

as for selling it I wont be doing that untill Im absolutely sure it wont work
Im gonna take it all apart and see if I pull anything out make sure its all wired properly