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Laptop DVD player broken will laptop still work

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Yup definitely. DVD player is the secondary hardware i.e. your laptop does not need DVD player to function properly to boot. Unless, you're trying to boot OS from DVD.
Yup definitely. DVD player is the secondary hardware i.e. your laptop does not need DVD player to function properly to boot. Unless, you're trying to boot OS from DVD.
 
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