just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
18-05-2005, 21:30
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just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
Hiya, I have just bought a DVD writer for my comp. I have at the moment a cd writer and a DVD drive installed. Seeing as how I dont play DVDs on my comp do you think that I should just take out the two drives and just have a combination?
What do people ordinarilly do?
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18-05-2005, 21:35
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Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
I kept my CD writer and replaced my DVD drive with a DVD burner - mainly because the CD writer reads scratched CD's better than my DVD writer, but also it seems slightly more reliable at writing CD's too.
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18-05-2005, 21:38
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Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
I'd take out the two old drives and just use the DVD writer...
Unless you're gonna do a lot of disc copying.
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18-05-2005, 21:46
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Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
Ah, thats a point I forgot disc copying.........trying to think of the last time I actually did that now........hmm!!
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18-05-2005, 21:53
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Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
Unless you need two writers, take out the old cd writer - then you will have one dvd and cd writer, and two drives which can read both dvd's and cd's.
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18-05-2005, 22:23
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Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
Yeah, take out the CDRW & keep the DVD reader
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19-05-2005, 00:31
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Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
How many hard drives do you have in the machine?
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19-05-2005, 06:44
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Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
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Originally Posted by Lord Nikon
How many hard drives do you have in the machine?
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I have 2 .....a 40gb and an 80gb!
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19-05-2005, 06:59
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Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
How about turning one of the internal hard drives into an external?
This sort of thing
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19-05-2005, 08:37
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Re: just bought a dvd writer....what to remove?
Or install a cheap raid card http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=48670 . I use 3 optical drives in my system as each has its own best use
Pioneer 108 wicked dvd rewriter
lite on cdr will copy everything in reason(back ups of course). will also read cd's that state not playable on pc or mac
lite on dvd rom software switch to make multi region so no dodgy firmware
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