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milemile
edited August 2006 in Chit chat
can you get CD re-writters for old shit PC's?
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  • NickHNickH
    edited August 2006
    If it has an IDE hard disk interface, I can't see why not.
  • milemile
    edited August 2006
    do they all have one of them?
  • NickHNickH
    edited August 2006
    IDE's been a standard for a VERY long time.

    Show us a pic of the connectors used to connect the hard disk in that machine.
  • milemile
    edited August 2006
    its my works machine, so i don't want to open it up. (if thats where the things are)

    i thought it had something to do with memory.
  • NickHNickH
    edited August 2006
    If you don't open it up, then you won't know what you can do with it.

    Although I'm sure there are external CD-RW's that you can plug into the parallel port or the USB port, but they're going to be more expensive than internal CD-RW's.
  • gasmangasman
    edited August 2006
    Define "old shit PCs". IIRC, when I first got myself a CD burner I was on a 166MHz Cyrix (Pentium 1 equivalent) with something like 32Mb of RAM, and that was perfectly fine.
  • milemile
    edited August 2006
    its not my money, i will look at an external one, sounds much easier.
  • guesserguesser
    edited August 2006
    If it's too shit you might have a problem using an external one.

    If the PC only has USB version 1, and the drive needs USB 2 then it might not work
    (although usually things do work just really slow)
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • NickHNickH
    edited August 2006
    If it's old, forget about USB full stop - the parallel port would have been the standard option.
  • guesserguesser
    edited August 2006
    getting hold of a parallel CD burner, and compatable software might be a bit hard though anyway :-D
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • milemile
    edited August 2006
    it has windows 98 and a pentium 3
  • guesserguesser
    edited August 2006
    Is it win 98, or 98SE?
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • milemile
    edited August 2006
    oh wait, the stickers says designed for windows 98.

    apparently it has windows 2000 profesional inside of it. (sounds a bit special that)
  • guesserguesser
    edited August 2006
    ah, sounds like it's been upgraded then :-)

    I think the simplest thing is still to use an internal drive though you could replace the current CD drive with a CD writer combo drive, it's as simple as unplugging two cables and undoing 4 screws :-)
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • milemile
    edited August 2006
    would it be worth it? or worth getting a new machine?
  • BruceNortonBruceNorton
    edited August 2006
    you used to be able to get a kit and just add your own CD Writer. I don't know whether they still do the parralell port ones but they do still do the USB ones.

    However the Writing speeds would be cack and you would have to check how much RAM and hard disk space you have left. 64mb ram and about a gig of free space would suffice.

    Easiest option would be to just fit an internal one. You can do it in about 5mins and it will save you money.
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