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What if No optical drive detected on your laptop?
Most likely you will have to reinstall the drives for the CD and DVD units
Why would manufacturers make it easy to replace laptop optical drives?
To make them easy to upgrade.
What is Optical Bay?
An Optical Bay is a designated space within a computer, typically a laptop or desktop, designed to hold optical drives such as CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives. In many modern devices, this bay may be repurposed for other uses, such as additional storage drives or solid-state drives (SSDs), especially as physical optical media becomes less common. Users can often replace the optical drive with an adapter to install other hardware, enhancing the device's functionality.
What data cable attatches to the optical drive?
A Molex Connector connects to optical drives and hard drives.
What is Storage media used by optical disc drives?
CD and DVD disks are used by optical disc drives.
When were optical drives invented?
According to http://www.answers.com/optical+drives, David Paul Gregg developed an analog optical disc for recording video and patented it in 1961 and 1969.
What laptop devices are hot-swappable?
Hot swappable means the same thing whether the computer is a laptop, desktop or server. It means that you can remove and replace a drive (hard drive or removable media) while the computer is running.
Can I use an Optical Grade Cleaning Cloth on my laptop?
You can not only use optical cleaning cloths on your laptop, it's actually recommended as it's not abrasive.
Why are CD-ROM and DVD drives called optical drives?
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
What are the 5 examples of output devices?
Monitors, Printers, NIC's, Hard Drives can be both, and optical drives.
How do you install cheap external hard drives to your laptop?
You can install them the same way as all other hard drives to your laptop. You can put the CD into your laptop and install it or you can put in the USB cord and install it like that.
What technology standard is used to govern how drives such as CD-ROM drives Zip drives and hard drives can interface with a system?
Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE)
