do you actually use it even frequently? CDs and DVDs are almost dead, it's better to have a portable CD/DVD drive you can use like once or twice a year
Is 2022 and I am 72... I've been working on the computer laptop learning... it's all new. Thank you for making this DVD I just got a dvd-rw with no instructions. It was a comfort for me to watch your video.
Love this. You are the only one, from the other videos I've seen that actually broke it down. Now I feel comfortable in buying a laptop without the CD/DVD 👍🏾
Bought one two years ago. Was dead on arrival, but I discovered it last week. Replaced the cd-rom with a caddy containing a 2.5'' HDD, just to check for functionality. Works like a charm.
Extremely helpful video. I bought my laptop a few months ago and didn't realize it didn't have a disc tray. Problem solved with the dvd-rw drive. This video is very detailed for us first time users of a drive like such. Thank you.
This drive you bought works great with pc games? I’m trying to find one but don’t want to get duked. I have gta San Andreas i bought this pc looking forward to playing old time games and didnt even realize i had no disc tray. If your drive works good with pc games id love to know which you purchased
@@ccwolfpackgamer5864 I can't confirm that as I don't have any PC games but it worked well with burned disc's. Perhaps purchase it and test it. But check the return policy should it not work. I'm very happy with my purchase. It is literally a lifesaver 🍃💛
Hi there, I'm 74, I recently bought a Denon D-M41DAB DAB/DAB+/FM/CD Bluetooth Micro System, which obviously plays CD's. I have a lot of music on my computer and wanted to burn some cd's to free up space on my hard drive, so this external cd/dvd is just what I need.
remember if you have old cd-r discs which is already written cannot be rewritten. but you can use what already saved in cd-R. so you have buy a new disk to use as a storage device . to use dvd like memory card (read& write multiple times) you need to buy Cd-rw discs
Let's get a B 11:50 lu-Ray/4K player attached & changed out the graphics card to Ultra Resolution to enjoy all that technology offers at Consumers benefit.
Thank you so much! Especially thanks for including link to videolan. I got a new external drive today, and couldn't make heads or tails of using it as a dvd player because media player couldn't work or I didn't know how to work it. You saved me time and money, Sir! I'm very gratefu to you!!!
Thank you for this video! I am tech challenged but I was able to follow along. I will burn a cd of some religious talks for private use. I liked the presentation fast, easy and to the point!
I just ordered me one because the DVD drive on my laptop don’t work anymore for some strange reason I got a lot of DVD that I still like to watch so I hope everything work out for me with the one I ordered thanks for sharing this Video 👍🏽
Is is true what people say, that people don’t use dvds anymore? If so, then I think that it should be brung back since it is much easier than having to go online and go on a paid trial to watch it.
Can you recommend a external CD/DVD drive that has a solid reputation for playing burned CDs/DVDs? I had previously bought a LG CD/DVD drive but it would not play the burned discs.
I am glad you showed the drive playing DVDs. I just bought a Roofull external DVD drive it shares the same pop up box, I can not get the unit to play DVDs properly using VLC. The picture quality is good and the sound quality is good, but I get audio dropouts that are evenly spaced and repeat consistently. I was able to rip a DVD that has the audio dropouts, but then rather than drop outs I got out of synch audio and video. Because the issue is consistent with other players, I think it is a conflict between my computer the drive and Windows 10.
@@217champion As long as the burner doesn't draw more than 500 milliamps, you should be able to use it with a USB 2.0 plug. If you're getting disc write errors and you're not using a power hub, that's probably the reason.
*Can it install AAA games like gta5, COD, battlefield. And what if the game requires the cd inside the drive while playing.* I recently bought a laptop with pretty high specifications but unfortunately it doesn't have a DVD/CD drive. Thank you in advance
What about all the CDs you already have and the DVDs it is so weird to me I'm just finding out they don't have drives in freaking computers first thing that made me feel old in life got tons of disc
I've just bought an Hatoku external multi functional optical drive, simply to burn cd's. You just connect it to your laptop, log on to I- Tunes and away you go. A 5 year old could use it :)
Hey thanks alot this has given me great enlightenment. Today actually wanted to try rip a cd off windows media player for the first time ever on windows media. I always used another program called Nero and im glad to see you have shown a how to do this on windows media . I was having issues with the windows recognising the Sandstorm. I closed the windows , plugged in the sandstorm, then selected the songs I wanted which was not a problem, THEN PUT IN A BLANK CD, THEN THE BURN CD FUNCTION turned from grey to well coloured to activate. Music is great and so was cd's to put them on. And still is for certain applications. Thanks for sharing. ✊🏼
I once have and use laptop with cd drive but long forget It since I hardly see Them now and what I learn was... Read and Play is when You play the disk from the drive while Ripping CD/DVD means transfering the data from Disk into the device and Burning CD/DVD means transfering from device to Disk, what would happen to the data if You suddenly cancel rip/burn progress I wonder if the data would end up broken/error to be used???
The data that got cutoff will likely end up corrupted. I know hen I've tried burning audio CDs and accidentally cancelled the burn process, parts of the song would get cut off or otherwise not play at all. Sometimes a CD may be unreadable.
I actually still buy CDs. My problem is that The Melvins Stoner Witch disc isn't working in my computer's drive, so I guess I am going to have to get an external drive to see if it will work.
2023.. u have a home computer, laptop and 2 Apple iPads that I want to save info off of. I tried in a memory stick years ago.. today that I do is coming out scrambled . So I’m sticking to cd”s. I found 2 of these readers in my storage. I’d forgotten what they were for . I had to Google it/ RU-vid . I’m soooooo glad I found them because I searched libraries for a way to transfer my data. Libraries ( except the university) don’t even have a way to use the memory chip anymore. Im gonna transfer my info onto cd”s because it’s the best way .. even above the memory stick
I think an external hard drive is the best option. With a CD, you're limited to about 650 Mb. If you have more data than that, you'll need to use more disks. If you have a lot of data, like a lot of pictures and videos or programs or otherwise large files, you're going to be using a ton of CDs. With DVDs, you can get up to 4.7 GB of capacity, but that's still not that much. there are dual-layer DVDs which give you up to 8.5 GB. The point is that optical media isn't the best for this type of use case. External hard drives can come into multi-terabyte capacities which is far more than what optical media supports. but to each their own.
I need to learn how to burn songs into a blank CD from my laptop yo a portable S you show on this video. I'm old skool. Still use CDs. And now at 57. Using a laptop for the first time. 😳
it depends on how old the game is and if it's compatible with your operating system. I recently installed a 11 year old dvd drive into my new windows 10 computer because I wanted to play my old games. Those games can't run on windows 10 so I had to install emulators to play them.
I am using the usb-c hub into the computer And put external burner into it to burn CDs/DVDs but now it doesn't work no matter what jump drive or SD card I used
I have a pro X2 tablet I use use a USB hub and hook Up my external burner for DVD/cd's but now it's not reading any external device at all but it's running power to The device
OK, so I have a Windows 10 pc that won't play DVDs. I got a used ASUS ZenDrive V1M external DVD drive from Amazon, but it came with a usb-c cable. How do I connect the usb-c to my desktop?
Just brought a New Desk top tower and from the compact size it doesnt have a cd/dvd player so ive just brought one from Ebay in 2021,,, only had refub pcs and they've always came with dvd/cd players
This is a good video, but it doesn't cover the problem when VLC on a Dell Windows desktop computer it doesn't play the DVD. Apparently this is a common problem. If you could address this that would be very much appreciated.
Hi there, My laptop does not have a cd player. I want/need the ability to copy cd's to my iphone. I have many cd's I cant play as I have no player. I will look for one of these right now. I believe now, in 2022, I can burn the cd to itunes and then transfer to my iphone. Can you confirm thats true ? Thanks much.
What if I wanted to (on dvd player not on pc but for home cinema -as I want only dvds to be able to play ) disable usb port somehow ,could I cut a cable on the inside or something?
How does one get an external DC/DVD drive to read an instructional program CD ? All old computers with built in drives did it automatically. Now the new external drives won't do it?
i have a new 2020 macbook pro ands bought a portable thru amazon and it keeps saying no recorder on it so then i downloaded a software called burn and it still won't burn cds. i'm not trying to do anything fancy just make a playlist of song! omg it's so frustrating for no reason. i thought this was going to be simple and on top of that the player won't eject when i want it to it'll do it at random times
hello, thank you for the video. i bought and hooked up a similar look-alike burner, made by rooful. i burned a music album from a stick onto a cd but it won't play in any cd players- but it does play in my dvd player= can you explain that? p.s. i'm old too!
I did everything you showed but when I insert a CD, it is not being read - no contents show up...but in diagnostics, it should the external player is indeed working?? Help?
