You could remove this friendly Seattle Frisbee from the bottom just for a quick toss, but we're not here to play around. There are, in fact, more screws hidden underneath.

The optical drive comes out next. And much to our amazement, it's the familiar old drive returning from the Xbox One S and Xbox One X—same model number and all!

That said—just like the One S and One X—if you can de-solder the board from your original optical drive and transplant it into a new drive, you're back in business.

In any case, one of these chips might be responsible for the intimate motherboard/optical-board bond:

Microsoft MS0DDDSP03 ARM—probably the optical drive controller

Texas Instruments TPIC2050 9 channel motor/laser driver