What Optical drive is compatible with my HP Desktop M01-F3003w. It has no optical drive

[Sparkie9]

I have a HP M01-F003w desktop with no Optical drive. There is a place on the front cover with a punch-out piece of metal on the front panel of the computer so that an Optical drive can be inserted. I need a part number or other ID for the drive so that it can be installed.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You need to buy several parts to add an ODD:

799541-001

Latch Assembly - P Slim ODD

L67795-001

Bezel - ASSY,ODD-BEZEL-ID19-MT-OPP

853885-800

DVD - GNRC, ODD DVDSM 9.5 Slim Tray RAZR

None of the parts are available from HP, so you will have to find them elsewhere.

If you don't use a DVD drive that much, you may want to consider purchasing a USB DVD-RW.

I use this one for example:

Amazon.com: ASUS ASUS LITE Portable USB 2.0 Slim 8X DVD/ Burner +/- Rewriter External Drive, Compati...