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Can you use internal burners externally?

  • 19-06-2005 12:16pm
    #1
    Cianos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    Trying to find a cheap DVD burner for a laptop. Is it possible to use an internal one, externally?
    Also, if anyone knows any cheap burners (1st or 2nd hand), I'm all ears.
    Thanks
    -Cian


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  • #2
    amp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Yeah, but you'd need to put it into a caddy, which combined with the cost of the internal writer could put the cost above what an external burner would cost.


  • #3
    kdouglas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kdouglas


    komplett have a lovely internal laptop dvd burner here for €85 but youll need to take your old one out to fit it (obviously) some laptops its as easy as undo a couple of screws and pull out the old one, others it involves taking half the lappy apart. depends on what laptop you have. a dvd burner will kill your battery a bit when burning dvds, but how often do you need to burn a dvd without a power source nearby?


  • #4
    Sparky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    kdouglas wrote:
    komplett have a lovely internal laptop dvd burner here for €85 but youll need to take your old one out to fit it (obviously) some laptops its as easy as undo a couple of screws and pull out the old one, others it involves taking half the lappy apart. depends on what laptop you have. a dvd burner will kill your battery a bit when burning dvds, but how often do you need to burn a dvd without a power source nearby?

    Yeah i got that one last week for the inspiron 9100, since it has a media bay in the laptop you need to remove the adaptor that screws onto the side of the drive then attach the new drive.


  • #5
    Cianos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    The laptop in question cannot take a CD drive at all, as it is a slimline design. Does anyone know where the best place to find a cheap external burner is?


  • #6
    Darwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭Darwin


    I picked up an IDE to USB 2 adaptor on ebay for about 15E. (Something like this) It allows you to use any IDE device via your USB 2 port. It also comes with a power adaptor with a 3-pin plug on one end and a molex connector on the other. So pick up a cheap internal IDE CD/DVD burner and off you go. This is possibly the cheapest (but not the best) solution...


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