My husband and I bought a new compaq presario(tower only) with xp and already has only a cd-writer in it. It does have an Expansion Bay right below the Cd-Writer so that is why I assume that means we can take our old cd-dvd player out of our old tower and put it in this new one. Our old tower was a NEC but the cd-dvd player didn't orginally come with it...the original Nec tower had a problem and and the new cd rom dvd player was installed by another computer company that we hired to try to fix the tower at that time. We still kept the old tower to see if another family member wanted it for their system but they didn't so does anyone know how I can remove it from the old tower and install it in this new tower?
2007-01-19 04:26:03 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
This might sound a little crazy.. Undo the screws.. Remove the DVD drive and install it in the new tower. It should be a simple process.
2007-01-19 04:30:17 · answer #1 · answered by BigWashSr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can run both! Set one of the drives jumpers to slave and plug in the extra IDE plug that's on the cable going to the Compaq's CD drive. Have fun!;-)=
2007-01-19 04:36:18 · answer #2 · answered by Jcontrols 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋