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From: RnR on 1 Oct 2008 23:09
I know I'm jumping the gun here since I'll know shortly after
installing the hardware but I'm getting a hitachi dvd burner from dell
to replace a failed cd burner in a dell laptop running xp media.
I don't know the model of hitachi dvd burner yet but any idea if the
driver is within XP or do I need to find it elsewhere?
From: JayB on 2 Oct 2008 00:28
driver included in XP

RnR wrote:
> I know I'm jumping the gun here since I'll know shortly after
> installing the hardware but I'm getting a hitachi dvd burner from dell
> to replace a failed cd burner in a dell laptop running xp media.
> I don't know the model of hitachi dvd burner yet but any idea if the
> driver is within XP or do I need to find it elsewhere?
From: RnR on 2 Oct 2008 06:35
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:28:12 -0400, JayB <JayB(a)audiman.net> wrote:

>driver included in XP
>
>RnR wrote:
>> I know I'm jumping the gun here since I'll know shortly after
>> installing the hardware but I'm getting a hitachi dvd burner from dell
>> to replace a failed cd burner in a dell laptop running xp media.
>> I don't know the model of hitachi dvd burner yet but any idea if the
>> driver is within XP or do I need to find it elsewhere?


Appreciate the info :) , thanks.
From: Ben Myers on 2 Oct 2008 10:16
No added driver is needed for any optical drive if one is using Win 2000 or
later. However, the CD/DVD burning software on your system may or may not like
the drive.

Bundled CD/DVD burning software generally has some restrictions baked in as to
which hardware it will operate with. In my experience, if the software was
pre-installed at the factory (and on a Dell-branded CD), it is keyed to the
motherboard BIOS, so it won't run on a non-Dell motherboard. If the software is
bundled with the drive (like the Nero Express bundled with Sony and LiteOn
retail-packaged drives), then it is keyed to the drive firmware.

For these reasons, I like both CDBurnerXP and ImgBurn. They are both free and
both do more or less the same thing as retail software. And they work with just
about any optical burning drive ever made.

Being a belt-and-suspenders person (maybe its
belt-suspenders-and-fiberglass-cup?), I keep all three on my main computer. I
guess I still do not have 100% confidence in the freeware burners, but they are
pretty damned good.

Also, if anyone wants to burn MP3s to audio format to play in a car's CD player,
the free GoGo MP3 to audio burner works perfectly for this single task.

.... Ben Myers

On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:09:00 -0500, RnR <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>I know I'm jumping the gun here since I'll know shortly after
>installing the hardware but I'm getting a hitachi dvd burner from dell
>to replace a failed cd burner in a dell laptop running xp media.
>I don't know the model of hitachi dvd burner yet but any idea if the
>driver is within XP or do I need to find it elsewhere?
From: RnR on 2 Oct 2008 11:14
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:16:50 -0400, Ben Myers
<ben_myers_spam_me_not(a)charter.net> wrote:

>No added driver is needed for any optical drive if one is using Win 2000 or
>later. However, the CD/DVD burning software on your system may or may not like
>the drive.
>
>Bundled CD/DVD burning software generally has some restrictions baked in as to
>which hardware it will operate with. In my experience, if the software was
>pre-installed at the factory (and on a Dell-branded CD), it is keyed to the
>motherboard BIOS, so it won't run on a non-Dell motherboard. If the software is
>bundled with the drive (like the Nero Express bundled with Sony and LiteOn
>retail-packaged drives), then it is keyed to the drive firmware.
>
>For these reasons, I like both CDBurnerXP and ImgBurn. They are both free and
>both do more or less the same thing as retail software. And they work with just
>about any optical burning drive ever made.
>
>Being a belt-and-suspenders person (maybe its
>belt-suspenders-and-fiberglass-cup?), I keep all three on my main computer. I
>guess I still do not have 100% confidence in the freeware burners, but they are
>pretty damned good.
>
>Also, if anyone wants to burn MP3s to audio format to play in a car's CD player,
>the free GoGo MP3 to audio burner works perfectly for this single task.
>
>... Ben Myers
>

Appreciate the info Ben. My daughter's laptop is messed up and on
top of that, her cd burner has bit the dust so I'm going to put in
this dvd burner then re-install the OS and start from scratch to get
her laptop back into shape. I have a feeling after that I'll be doing
her pc because last nite I saw she was using her sister's pc which she
never does so I suspect her pc isn't in good shape either :( .
Thanks again.
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