Replacement UMD drive for PSP-2000?

[scott]

Hey all, my PSP's UMD drive is making some God awful racket when ever it spins up to load. Has anyone had any experience with replacement drives or should I just look into finding another system?

Thanks in advance!

[leonefamily]

One of my PSP 3000 is doing the same. Personally I didn't bother to fix because of the fact I own another working PSP 3000. Best solution is to just start ripping your UMD ISOs and load them to a memory stick. Not only you eliminate the need for UMDs, you also get faster load times. Look for CFW 6.61 Pro C-2. It has all you need to rip your isos and to play them. Unless your drive completely doesn't want to read the UMDs at all, then just download them I guess.

I have replaced a screen but never a UMD drive however the drive replacement looks much easier than the screen.

[scott]

I might look into that. I'm not without mechanical skills, but from what I read it's a pretty involved process to change the UMD drive out.

I guess it comes down to cost of a large enough memory card vs the drive. My current memory card is very tiny, as I only ever intended to use it for saves.