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Old November 29th 17, 03:55 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default Dell computer with no input

"Paul" wrote
| When the CDRW in my current computer case was
| declared "obsolete", I removed it and didn't replace
| it. The "floater" USB DVDRW has taken its place,
| and most of the time, isn't plugged in.
|

If it works for you... I use the DVD drive often
enough that I don't want to go looking for a shared
drive, much less pay a lot of extra money for something
I shouldn't need. If it had been me I would have just
added an internal DVD drive, for less money. CDR-only
has not been common for many, many years now.
I have old DVD drive spares around.

| There are a few pieces of software that are *adamant*
| that the optical drive appear (magically) on an
| IDE cable. If you ever have to deal with that
| kind of hard-coded software, you're screwed :-)

I've never run into anything like that. Maybe it's
because I configure the BIOS for backward
compatibility. I did find, with my recent foray into
UEFI, that *many* DVDs won't boot from UEFI
mode. But I would guess putting those onto USB
sticks probably wouldn't work any better.


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