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[King Class Scout]

well, gents, we just had a revelation, here.

Our old laptop finally bit the dust.  the motherboard went to the electronics graveyard.  although we have a new VERY high performance lappy (that's a lot bigger,physically), there's one problem...

There's no CD/DVD Drive at all!!

Although everything runs at perfection level, including a lot of homebrew games, there's no way in heck to use a CD or DVD rom on this thing.  what the hay?

any suggestions?

[hobbs]

can you get an external one?

[FekLeyr Targ]

Good idea. I for example have an external BluRay drive. It's also well suited if a Laptop has no CD/DVD drive or a non-funtional one.

[Nebula]

this here will help

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136271&ignorebbr=1

[King Class Scout]

thanks for the replies, guys.  BC hasn't been giving me new post notices, and your responses have been pushed WAY down mostly by STO gripes.  Thinking of, do they still make a PATA version for tacking on?  I still got ships on my oldest HD.

oh, if I rescue this, I'll have a bit of an archive.  I may have something somebody didn't grab before it got purged.

[DarkKnight40]

your old internal hdd drive..you can go to best buy and get an external usb case/power source you can slide that into that will allow you to run it just like any external hdd.  They got ya covered on the cd drive already

DK

[hobbs]

this is whats needed i think:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310670057795?var=610194526489&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

ide = pata i think

[Bren]

Or, since you already own the game, it's completely legal for you to mount a backup disc image On a virtual disc drive. I suspect discussing that in any detail well get this thread locked, though.