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Originally Posted by homealone
Hi BigDave1
there are usually only 2 IDE sockets on your motherboard, each will take two devices as master & slave. Thus max 4 devices.
As you already have 3 devices installed - 2 optical drives & a hard disk, one of your optical drives is going to have to share an IDE socket with the hard disk, to fit the new drive.
The problem here, is that IDE devices run at the speed of the slowest drive on the channel, so by sharing the socket, you will slow down your hard disk.
Possible solutions - an extra IDE card, which will give more sockets, or ditch one of your other optical drives & directly replace it with the new one - bearing in mind that a DVD writer will read & write cd's as well as DVD's...
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Thanks alot you have been very helpful.
I wil replace my CD-ReWriter with the DVD ReWriter. Will it be as simple as just unplugging the CDReWriter and then the plug the CD ReWriter used will fit directly into the DVD ReWriter Drive? Then installing the relevant drivers and software and it will work?