I know that I am pretty late to this party, but my neighbor just gave me a cd100b. It will put the disk on the reader, spin back and forth a few times, then it says that disk isn't available.
I am pretty sure this means a bad laser based on all I have read.
I was hoping to switch over to mp3 in order to reduce the number of moving parts. Do you have any more of these kits available? I would not need the hard drvie, just the kit.
Cheers,
Jimmi