TOIBHOY(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Monday, 31st January 2005, 19:16
hiya, hope there are some whizzkids out there. i am thinking about buying a LG gsa4163 dvd dual layer internal ide oem dvd writer from ebuyer. i just want to know how easy this is to install or will work in my machine. i am not too clued up on oem yet. i have an advent 3202 pc. which runs on windows ME. and amd athlon processor. i have a basic dvd rom in the pc and i quite fancy getting shot of the dvd rom. is it just a case of taking that one out and installing the other one. i know i will have to download the software for this dvd writer. i have already installed an 80gb hardrive with no problems. just never installed a dvd writer. so please help out a novice here. cheers
RE: LG dual layer dvd writer "help"
EmilyHoward(Elite) posted this on Monday, 31st January 2005, 19:45
Yep, should replace the DVD-ROM without any problems, though it might be worth keeping both installed if you PC has enough room. To do that just change the jumper on thback of the DVD ROM to `slave` and make sure the DVD writer has the jumper set to `Master`.
Shouldn`t need to download anything, it should work without any of that.
RE: LG dual layer dvd writer "help"
Choagy(Elite) posted this on Monday, 31st January 2005, 20:18
If you are hoping to back-up your DVD collection then I would recommend you go to http://www.dvdshrink.org and download DVD Shrink. This utility allied to Nero will allow you to create perfect back-ups of your own DVD`s to D/L (8.4 Gig)blank media. I would recommend you use standard blank media(4.7 Gig) and use Shrink to fit your back-up to a single blank DVD/R and Nero to burn it to the media. When the price of blank D/Layer media drops in a wee while you will be a wee bit more experienced and will be able to back-up with no problems.
