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Toshiba/Samsung TS-H943A Xbox 360 DVD Drive Disassembly

Use this how-to tutorial to replace a laser or install a new lid or even swap out the PCB
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In this tutorial we will completely disassemble the drive itself. This presumes you have already disassembled your 360 to get to the drive. Once the drive is in your hands take a look at the photos below. And keep in mind if you are delving in to this just to replace the laser or just the PCB some of the steps will not be necessary.

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Toshiba/Samsung TS-H943A Xbox 360 DVD Drive

There are currently two revisions of the TS-H943 drive out in the wild; the MS25 and MS28. Virtually impossible to brick by flashing the firmware, this drive is the most forgiving and easy to work with drive to date.

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The MS25 is a very popular drive due to how easily you can flash the firmware. The MS28 requires hardware modifications and or special techniques to allow flashing the firmware. Other than these extra steps it is virtually the same as a MS25. Nevertheless these steps can be complicated making it considerably more difficult to work with if you are not familiar with the techniques. Since there is no real difference hardware wise between the two; you can downgrade a MS28 to a MS25. Once its a MS25 you no longer need special steps or modifications to flash again. We start out with an unsuspecting drive and flip it on its back and hold it down

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Extract the 4 circled screws

The top lid slides right off, just pull it straight up

Flip it over and lift off the bottom tin Still looking at the bottom of the drive we notice on the left side in this photo a ribbon cable and a black plastic clip are circled. Release the clip and lift the circuit board up to better access the ribbon cable. The ribbon cable needs to be disconnected by pulling the cable straight out, there are no release clips just pull it out. Once the above step is completed you can flip over the circuit board to access the three remaining ribbon cables. These should be disconnected just like the first one.

Now the PCB is free

Now that we have the top and bottom tins removed and PCB out of the way we look at the bottom front of the drive and see a little white slider

Slide it over to the right and the tray pops partway open

Flip the drive upright again and pull the tray out all the way, note the two tabs circled in this photo. These are clips that need to be pulled up while pulling the drive tray the rest of the way out. For the photos we used a screwdriver to pry but you can easily use a finger nail. A little forward pressure and a it slips past

Then the next one

Notice once the tray is remove the slider springs from the left...

to the right. This will come into play when we re-assemble

We are now looking at the bottom of the drive, we see the two

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rails that the laser rides on. They end at two black plastic circles with a Philips screw holding them in place.

Remove the two screws and the rails are free so we can remove them

Now the laser just lifts out

Now on to remove the motor that spins up the disc. Remove the three screws circled here

and surprise surprise it lifts right out

Now the drive has been completely disassembled, or at least as complete as we care to do.

Putting it back together is much the same as the disassembly procedure but, just to be really thorough, we will go on step by step.

three screws to install the disc spinning motor

The laser and two rails are installed front first and then rest the ends into the black circles we just removed them from

Install the two screws, once in place it should look like this.

Take a quick look at the bottom of the tray, we notice a curved trough that the white plastic nub rides in, its right next to the gear

see the tray and notch?

alright then line them up and slide the tray in

now on to the PCB, attach the 3 ribbon cables, just push them straight in. Don't bend them over, they damage easily so be careful. Cable 1

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Cable 2

Cable 3

Lay the PCB down, inserting the left side in this photo into its slot

insert the final cable

snap the board into place

replace the top and bottom tin and install the four screws... DONE!

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