Thanks again Dave very very much!

paula

Yes i know to what you are refering to this is just a nice cover to make it look nice. Any standard size drive will fit.  if you look at the front of the disk tray when the tray is extended look at the front of the tray. On some Blue ray drives that front part of the tray is like 1.5 larger and this will not fit into the opening that the tray fits through as it open the front cover.

Like you say your only looking at non blue ray drives so any other will do the job.

Yes you can but some of the newer blue ray drives have a larger front cover than most and wont work without a bit of a mod to the front panel.

Thanks for the quick response Dave, but just to be clear, I'm talking about the little flap door that drops down and the drive slides out.

I don't plan on getting a blueray so I guess I'm ok then?

Paula

You are welcome. Let us know how it works out

Well unfortunately, I ordered a (what I thought) standard DVD drive (not Blue Ray) from Plextor PX850SA and it did NOT fit!

The front  is too wide thus not allowing it to slide open and it hangs up on the sides of the XPS420 case.

ARGH!

I don't know what to do now other than just keep ordering different drives to see which one will eventually fit!

I don't want to buy the same model drive that was in there because even when it was working it was junk.

Anyone replace this DVD drive with another brand that knows for sure it will fit in this case???

PLEASE HELP!

THANK YOU.