Replace Your DVD with a New Hard Drive

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Hello all,

I realize that this won’t be for everyone …but it’s an interesting concept nonetheless Replace your DVD CD RW with HD or SSD :cheers: Regards Fred

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Yes it is (interesting); if one can find the right caddy, my conversion was not so, er, neat, but it works.

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Some of us were doing just that over 10 years ago: http://www.cnet.com/laptops/dell-latitude-c640/4505-3121_7-20305954.html this range, for instance, had a CD/DVD drive that could be swapped out for a HDD, 2nd battery or Floppy drive in seconds.

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Some of us were doing just that over 10 years ago:

satrow,

Hello… Sorry i should have added the caveat, that this post was only for us “Dullards” who didn’t have a computer ten years ago…I’ll try to catch up…. :rolleyes: Regards Fred

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You could have an external CD/DVD drive, and use it to copy the contents of each of your CDs/DVDs to the 2nd hard drive, and then load them as virtual drives as needed:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-cd-emulator.htm

This method would allow you to store the CD/DVD contents on any/all of your hard drives, or on your network, and then access them as virtual drives as needed.

Group "L" (Linux Mint)
with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server

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