Vlad, I have a guy in Troy near HVCC that can probably fix this for you for $50. You can’t just plop in a new drive. You have to get the key off the old one, spoof it onto the new drive, and then it’ll work. Let me know if you wanna go that route and I’ll give you his email so you can get in contact with him. I found him on Craigslist and he did both mine and my brothers first XBox’s (we since have gotten the HDMI/new CPU ones).
And also, he may be able to just replace the lense on the drive for you. He did that for one of my systems. I watched him do it, dude did it in like 5 minutes.