release the HS/Fan spring lever and twist the HS/Fan to break the thermal pad/grease bond and remove em while the CPU is still in the lock position. when you reseat the CPU use 2 fingers and put some slight downward pressure on the CPU then lock the lever.
Most all DVD players will support VCD if encoded properly in mpeg1 format. You can also play a VCD in any cd-rom drive by opening the mpegAV folder and double clicking the .dat file. windows media player will play it.
I see you provide a link to newegg. That's were I got this drive. When I went to the site to get a RMA I was told I couldn't get an on line RMA for this product. I don't understand that. I can't call them until Monday. Have you done business with them before? Are they going to give me a hard time about a refund? Can anyone tell me their experience with newegg? First i'd disconnect the power cable and IDE cable from your old drive and set the new drive as master,boot to bios and make sure it shows correctly then run the tests to determine if the drive is defective. If it turns out to test