Sometime ago I bought a BenQ DW1650 16x DVD ReWriter. Originally I installed this rewriter in Esme's computer, and moved the DVD reader from her computer to mine, a Compaq Presario SR1505LA. However, last week I decided that it would be much easier to have the DVD rewriter in my computer instead of moving files to Esme's computer in order to burn them on DVD.
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THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!! I had never done anything hardware related before. The CD/DVD drive in the Compaq Presario I inherited from a friend wasn't working. I bought a new drive and was dismayed that there weren't printed instructions in the box. I found your post via a Google search. I am VERY appreciative of the time & effort you put into posting such detailed instructions. Thanks to you I was able to successfully replace the CD/DVD player. I had never so much as taken off the side panel of a PC before (I actually had to ask the guy at Staples to show me how), and was rather nervous about doing it. I do have one suggestion for your post --the one thing you didn't mention in it is to reconnect the 2 internal plugs that you carefully described how to disconnect.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! You rock!!!
Best wishes to you for a great year down there in Mexico. P.S. I'm american but am a great fan of the Netherlands, having several close Dutch friends in Leiden. Dank u wel!
Hey thanks for the info on the case removel had a customers HDD crash and needed to install a better one also pics where perfect
Don
Thanks Don, and you're welcome, glad to be of help.
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Hi John, thanks for the help.
I noticed you mentioned the Imation DVD failed -- did you know that some manufacturers of DVDs have arrangements with DVD-R and CD-R manufacturers so that when an Imation disk is put it, it gives an "error"? Sounds weird but in the cuthroat business of recordable media...Thought that might have been your problem.