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Most likely you will have to reinstall the drives for the CD and DVD units
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Are there options on this laptop for the type of optical drive it includes?
Yes their appears to be an optional floppy drive port for this drive.
Can you burn CD's on a laptop?
Buy an optical external disk drive.
How do you know when an optical drive is bad in a laptop?
That's simple. Put a dick that works in another computer into the drive to see if it works. If it does not you most like need a new drive. You can find a optical drive today for less than $100 sometimes less depending on your laptop.
What is the easist component to replace on a laptop?
The hard drive, the optical drive and usually memory are the easiest components to replace. Of the three, the optical drive is probably the easiest... usually one screw.
What is A low-end inexpensive laptop with a small 9- or 10-inch screen and no optical drive?
Netbook
Hardware components of a laptop?
Hardware components of a laptop are: Motherboard CPU RAM Expansion cards Power supply Optical disc drive Hard disk drive Keyboard
Does the Asus Eee Surf Laptop have a DVD player?
No. The Eee PC contains no optical drive at all. However, the laptop does come with software to play DVDs if you connect an external drive via USB.
What is the best laptop to buy for causal gaming?
I'm looking for a laptop for causal gaming that has an optical drive and something I can use for school as well. My budget would probably be 900$
What would you pay for this laptop around 2Ghz processor 3gb ram 250gb hard drive 128mb dedicated video memory no optical drive?
$450.00 and you can buy an optical drive like a CD/DVD burner. Or even just a DVD drive external connect them through a usb port it would be cheaper than trying to find an internal one that would fit the laptop.
What is a optical drive?
A Optical drive is hardware that read and drive a DVD disk or programs.
Why is it that laptop optical drive is easy to replace?
There are severnal reasons: 1. The optical drive is relatively independent device for computer, supports plug and play, ne need install any driver programs mostly. So, it is easy to replay. 2. More and more people think the opical drive is useless, since you can dowload data and watch movies online without buying physical optical disc. So the optical is regarded as a optional part not like hard disk, cpu or motherboard which are neccessory for laptop. 3. When you think the optical drive is useless, you may buy a 2nd hdd caddy to replace it, then your laptop can have two hard disk, you have more storage capacity. 4. The optical drive is easy to break down since the laser lens in it is very fragile. You have to replace it when it is defective. 5. Sometimes, you want to upgrade your optical drive, like from dvd player to dvd writer, from dvd drive to blu-ray player, from blu-ray player to blu-ray burner. In a word, the characteristics of optical drive decide that it is easy to replace. The goal is to provide better user experience. For more details, please visit: eeshops.net. You may buy the suitable 2nd HDD caddy to extend the storage space when you do not need optical drive any longer. Or buying the best blu-ray drive to upgrade your cd/dvd drive.
Can you play computer games on the mini toshiba laptop?
yes you can but smaller laptops usually are not as powerful and it may not run the game. You might have a mini that doesnt have an optical drive (a place to put the disc in), then it is best to buy it and download it directly to your hard drive. then you dont need a disc to install and play the game. Here is a site that has all the best games that you can buy and download if that is what you want to do http://www.direct2drive.com/ If you want to put a game on it using a disc, but you have no optical drive, you will have to buy an external optical drive. It plugs in the the laptop and sends the info from the disc to the laptop.
