swapping cd-rw to older pc

[neillsmob]

this is my question i am getting a DvD burner for my PC and i want to take the LITE-ON LTR-40125S CD-RW from my PC and put it in my daughters PC the specs for this are, AMD Duron 747 Mhz, 50 mb memory, 10 Gb HD, and i think that this is the graphics card- SiS 630/730, i have copied all the requiered software and drivers. would i be able to replace the cd-r in the old PC with the cd-rw and install the s/w and drivers, please help,

oh and merry xmas and a happy ner day

[stroyal]

The burner should work in just about any computer as a CD- ROM, and as long as you have a burner program for the version of windows that you are using it should work fine.

Some programs that come with burners will only work with the burner it came with.

[stroyal]

That Memory should be at least 128 or 256 for Win98

[Bill in SD, CA]

Yeah, you will need to kick up the memory.

Other than that, you should have no problems

Bill

[neillsmob]

so that means that i can just replace the cd-r with cd-rw copy the s/w and driver, install nero 6 and another stick off memory and its good to go ?

[neillsmob]

thx for helping out guys, =)

[John Prophet]

there is no driver needed for cdroms or for cdburners (or dvdburners for that matter)

There is only the software such as Nero or Adaptec or whichever it uses.

The only thing that might give you an issue is the "jumper" on the back of the cd drive. There is a jumper on each drive (and on hard drives etc)....if the cdrom will be on a cable by itself then the jumper needs to be on "master". If the cdrom is on a cable with another cdrom or a hard drive then the jumpers on BOTH drives need to be set to go along with each other...like one needs to be master and the other set to "slave".

If the old drive is on a cable by itself....and the new drive was on a cable by itself..then most likely the jumper is already good to go and its just a matter of physically swapping the units.

I tried to find a good pic but couldnt..but I did find a nice diagram of the back of a CDROM. The "jumper" is just a little plastic thing that connects two of the pins. See the pic here http://www.cr-il.com/cdrom.htm

The jumpers are where it says (c)....and then all drives have labeled somewhere like the pic telling you which jumper is "master" "slave" or "cable select"....cable select can be used in some cases but master and slave is just as easy. In the pic the jumper would go on vertically....never horizontally.

JP

[neillsmob]

@ John Prophet, so that means that i will have to check wot the setting for the HD is before i install, i.e HD= Master, New CD-RW= Slave, thx

[John Prophet]

well really all you would have to do is look at the jumper on the old cdrom and make sure the "new" one is set to the same thing.

[neillsmob]

duh, stupid quetion, thx for ur response