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theRepublic on 28 April 2017

The disc drive on my decade old Wii seems to have finally failed.  It will no longer read single layer discs.  Since it seems to be all discs, I doubt it is just a dirty lens.  I have seen some Wii disc drives available online for pretty cheap.  And there seem to be plenty of Youtube how to videos on how to replace them.  I have even seen a few that show a way to possibly fix the most common issue how the drive fails.

Has anyone had to replace a drive on their Wii?  It doesn't look too bad, but I would love to hear anyone's experiences with it.



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Ultrashroomz on 29 April 2017

I opened up a Wii before to access the disc drive, not replace it, but I recall just being able to disconnect cable to move it around.

Not too hard really, just need to peel off a bunch of stickers covering up some screws, and have a triwing screwdriver on stand by.



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d21lewis on 29 April 2017

I'm sure I'm not much help but--you can probably get a whole new Wii for like $50. Not sure about the data transfer process, though. Transferring from Wii to Wiiu was pretty painless so I imagine going from Wii to Wii would be equally easy. Good luck!



IkePoR on 29 April 2017

Get a flash drive and homebrew. You can store backups of all your games and play them that way.



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Trunkin on 29 April 2017

Go full digital.



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sethnintendo on 29 April 2017

Blow in it



tak13 on 29 April 2017
RolStoppable said:
I've sent in my Wii in late 2010 and Nintendo's Austrian distributor put in a new disc drive for €60. I made backups of everything that could be copied to an SD card, but all of my saves and downloads were returned with my Wii, so it turned out to be a complete waste of time.

What.............................................? That's a steal! The whole console itself was costing 70$ to manufature by 2010...  They charged you the 60euros for the disc drive, exorbitant...

Edit: I guess the disc drive cost was just 10-15euros, the rest 50-45euros was for the mender... 



sethnintendo on 29 April 2017
d21lewis said:
I'm sure I'm not much help but--you can probably get a whole new Wii for like $50. Not sure about the data transfer process, though. Transferring from Wii to Wiiu was pretty painless so I imagine going from Wii to Wii would be equally easy. Good luck!

Except the 2 hours of watching Pikmin pick up small blocks of memory and move it endlessly to the Wii U.  Just try and transfer 3DS to New 3DS XL.  Maybe your digital saves will transfer unlike mine (was able to redownload all purchased eshop games though).  After that I suppose I can't bitch about the Wii to Wii U transfer.



tak13 on 29 April 2017
RolStoppable said:
tak13 said:

What.............................................? That's a steal! The whole console itself was costing 70$ to manufature by 2010...  They charged you 60euros for the disc drive, exorbitant!

Edit: I guess the disc drive cost was just 10-15euros, the rest 50-45euros was for the mender...Europe

You need to look up what the phrase "it's a steal" means.

It doesn't matter what the manufacturing cost was. A new Wii was still €199 at the time and there's no way for a data transfer, so getting a proper repair for €60 isn't a bad option. The console returned in the same week I sent it in, so it didn't take long either.

So you're ok paying 60euros when the cost of the a new disc drive was probably just 10-15 euros?

What can I say? You might be an affluent person... Perhaps, if my budget was high enough, I wouldn't have any problem too...



SvennoJ on 29 April 2017

I got a refurbished one when my disc drive failed. It still works, I think.

Mine started to take longer and longer between load screens until it stopped working completely. Since the refurbished one was less than postage plus repair costs it was an easy choice. Instant 'fix'.