Can I Use an external CD/DVD Writer so I can Rip and Burn CD's like I do on Windows Media Player?
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Hi Bill. I replaced the RAM and HD with after I got it and then used an external USB R/W drive to install Windows 7 with no problems. I would only caution you about the integrated video performance if it matters. The video will play fine but it makes the mouse hard to move.
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Yes. I've got this in a home theater system so I purchased an LG external for $24. It then decided not to boot. I had to go into the BIOS to make it work correctly.
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You should be able to. It's just a small tower computer. The USB ports should allow you to hook up the external writer easily.
983348
No, this is just a case, not an external CD unit. I used it to contain a super drive unit extracted from an old mac book pro. You need to buy an external CD-DVD burner.
1338616
This computer only has a DVD player/burner. If you want to burn cd's you'll half to buy an external cd burner.
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No there's not, the unit is too small, but there are 3 usb 3.0 ports and a thumb drive is a much better thing to use than a CD or DVD, and you can always plug in an external CD DVD Burner. I've had this unit for over a year and a half now and I still luv it. It has an HDMI port to plug into as big screen TVand I can watch all my down loaded movies and photos ect.
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I just installed a program that I had downloaded from the internet on to my computer, and it installed properly. This was a (an) CD-R disk. So I would say that one can play CDs with this drive. By the way this program was burned from another CD drive.
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Windows 98 has the driver available already. What you should focus on now is getting a burning programme to work with Windows 98. The burning programme will be the one actually allowing you to burn CD's in Windows 98.
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Yes...download the software to a folder on your computer and then write to CD or CD-R.
340728
yes you can use it to copy/duplicate CD/CDR, its just limited on copy protected DVD
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I have a notebook that didn't come with a cd player and I have a external lightscribe. I can get it to work with Windows 8 cd's but I can't get it to do DVD's. I need to see if there is an update for it to windows 8.
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the external cd/dvd player/burner is connected to the pc with 2 usb cables -one for power, the other for data.i have not tried to burn a cd, but i imagine you should be able to - why not? it IS a cd/dvd "burner."but i can not say, for sure.
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You can get a micro USB (male) to USB (female) adapter from Amazon for about $6 and add external devices. I am formatting a DVD thru an external drive via the adapter right now. You can access your music CD's and rip to Music.
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Yes it can burn DVD's from a USB drive or copy the files to the local hard drive. For more information got to: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/burn-cd-or-dvd-media-player
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With this drive you can write to CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray. *NOTE* You will have to have the software to use to Playback Blu-Ray, or to Burn as Blu-Ray. If you do not already have playback software for Blu-Ray, you will have to purchase it, and the same goes for Blu-Ray writing. There is more information about this available on the web. Good luck!
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Not at all! Though you CAN use one of course but it's not necessary; when you have a CD or DVD in the drive, it will either have the location reflected on your desktop or iTunes (if your using that application)- otherwise, it most surely would be found on your desktop or drive / program finder. There by the name of the cd or DVD, you will see a tiny arrow pointing down next to it or below it (can't really remember)- you then just move the curser with your trackpad (or mouse) and click on it and you content will eject smoothly.
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so, when you want to load programs from cd's, can you connect with a usb to a desk top or another laptop with dvd/cd capabilities?
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Yes... you can record movies and or music to athe on board CD unit. Of course this requires the proper software such as NERO PRO to do so. The computer does NOT come the necessary software to simply recording. The Windows based software will allow recording of music however.
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Do you mean the software to run the cdrom? or are you trying to copy a software to your computer, like cd to pc? The DVD ROM is plug and play with Windows OS. We had it on windows 7, though it needed two usb ports to power. If you are trying to copy a cd on to a pc, then it would depend on the software copyright. A music cd, you can rip using windows media player. A movie, probably not. A program, maybe, depending on if you can grab everything into a folder. Let me know if you need assistance, Thanks, Kevin