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.
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.
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 👍🏾
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.
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 🍃💛
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!!!
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
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 👍🏽
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.
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. ✊🏼
@@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.
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 :)
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.
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/ RUclips . 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 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.
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 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. 😳
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 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.
*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
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.
Been trying too connect the one I am borrowing from my neighbors for the past few days and it won't burn on my hp. So hopefully this helps cause running out of patience
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.
actually you dont even have to go through all that trouble or expense. Remove the CD/DVD/ W/RW from any old laptop and get a mini SATA to USB 3 adapter and you are good to go. No need to remove the face plate, no need to spend up for a fancy case. I mean afterall how often does anyone use the device these days - on the rare occasion that I cant find a digital download of a movie or music i might have to buy a CD/DVD to rip and convert....
Great video. My asus laptop have no disc drive ugh. Its been years since I've burned a disc. Crazy thing I been getting request for burned discs. Wonder if you can rip the DVD video onto computer like you did the audio and possibly burn the DVD movie. I can't wait to get this
Thank you very much. Here I was a distance away in Scotland 🏴 not knowing how to connect my Asus external drive and VOILA, there you were!!! Can you tell me why there are two USB connectors please. I have many many many DVDs that I am not happily loading onto my laptop. I'm happy 😊 😃 🏴🙏💃
The extra USB plug is for extra power. In most cases, simply plugging in the main USB connector will work fine, but if the USB port can't deliver enough power, you may need to plug in the 2nd connector. I don't think this is too common though. As for playing your movies, what software are you trying to use? If you're using Windows 10 or newer, the built-in Windows Media Player doesn't playback DVD movies anymore since Microsoft didn't include the necessary codec for DVD movies. You can use VLC or other 3rd party programs.
@@JJFlores197 ahh!! You are a star!. It has been working fine plugging in one USB. I downloaded VLC and have had 50% success with saving the movie to my laptop I am not always sure which settings to use. Sometimes I have video but no sound. Thank you for all your help 🌈🙏💛🙃⭐
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
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?
We need to bring back DVD drives in laptops.
Ikr I don’t get it why they took them out! So stupid
We are going to need to protest outside Apple
Because they think we actually care about the laptops being thinner
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
My DELL Latitude E6410 has a dvd drive 😁
Ideal for old films or footage :P
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.
TWENTY ONE PILOTS MENTIONED🔥🔥🔥
Oh yeah! Got tickets to watch them again this September live.
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.
Pero no sé cómo se
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 👍🏾
same!
It's 2024. I'm 70, this was so very helpful.
Your welcome
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.
It's 2022 and I appreciate you doing this video!
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 🍃💛
Thank you, great tutorial. I get my artwork photographed and the photographer sends my copy on a DVD. This little beauty makes my work accessible.
lots of programs nowadays still come in cds but pc and laptops dont thanks for this video
@Starlin Peña exactly
my pc came with drivers on cd's but no cd drive!! lmao
@@What-sf5ey! lol
He has a trench copy from twenty one pilots mad respect
I'm laughing because I gasped with a smile when I saw it 😂
same! @@polen7455
Thank you so much. I've been trying to get my DVD drive to work for hours and thanks to you I finally figured it out
Very much appreciate a CD DVD video in 2019!
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.
I appreciate this help. I have so many cd “old school” wanted to put on laptop. This really helped
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!!!
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
Yes, some of us still use CDs. A hard copy is good to have.
Yes! In education, we use DVDs so this is still very relevant.
My DVD drive in my laptop actually broke so I need the external option. This was a good review! thanks for the detailed video!
Did it work??
You do know you can replace the internal one, right?
@@Mike09017 not cheaply I noticed, but yeah
@@SFTortoise oh well. I hope you find a good one!
Does help install Programs into ur laptop like (art program, gaming program etc)
I wanna buy it because I suddenly found my childhood game and I missed it a lot and I wanna play it
This makes me feel so old. Yes, I’m one of those with a bunch of antique dvds.
Thanks for posting.
Vinyl will guarantee you the respect you deserve.
useful for those who don't want to get a new PC just for the disc function
Thanks. I use CD's and DVD's all the time.Great video on the little nuances of 'FLAC' files. Very helpful. Thanks. Much appreciated.
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!
im the only deity u need tho
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 👍🏽
Did everything work?
Just subscribed. Thank you for the much needed instruction, for us old timers! San Francisco fan girl
I bought one off Amazon a month ago February 2021. No complaints yet. I've used it on both Mac and Pc. I share it between the 2, Works.
Can you use it to play computer games cd’s? I’ve been wanting to purchase to play old CD games from the early 2000’s
@@Osobear14Did you try it?
@@RealKingFloppa yes. Worked great
@@Osobear14 thx gonna buy it soon
When you said “Hey Guys!” I thought when did ChrisFix start making electronics videos!??? Lol
LOL
Dam... talk about a throwback. You took me back to when I was burning CDs and rolling with my Sony Walkman in my pocket 😆
thanks man, I have a lot of old cd's I want to rip to my new MacBook.
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.
Thank you. This was very helpful I've been needing one of these for my DVD collection. My new PC doesn't have a DVD drive at all.😀
I used for mines for installing gta sa
@@cattholic8257 That game does take quite a few discs if I remember right.
@@GamingwithAlchemy Hmm i have the cardboard box with all the manuals and stuff but there is only one disc?
@@cattholic8257 I was thinking of the Xbox which has two. (The one I have.) I thought the PC had two as well. I remembered wrong.
alchemychick22 Ah ok.
cds still have the best sound its the only source i use in my truck
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. ✊🏼
Very useful information for some of us old folk! TY!
I recently brought a dvd drive like that cause i watch quite alot of stuff on my surface pro but i couldnt watch my old dvds on it.
Thank you so much! Now I can download. GTA 4 on my new laptop
did it work to use a game disc on this?
@@maxmorgan1451 did you test it?
Excellent video, it was very informative and you explained everything. Thank you. I have the same Dell Laptop.
Can you play PC games on that player
Make sure you're using a powered USB hub if you use an external CD/DVD burner. External burners need a lot of power while burning discs.
It can still burn with USB 2 right.
@@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.
Does pc games work with that cd drive
That's what I want to know too
yes
@@MapleTree0 BUT BLUE RAY ISNT
ANYTHING OTHER THAN BLUERAY
@@MapleTree0 Cool bro
its okay
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 :)
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.
Trench! I love it
thank you so much, you video has taught me a lot...bless you, and I can now watch , enjoy my cd and videos.
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/ RUclips . 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 needed this in 2022
Very helpful for computer dummies like myself. thank you. very much appreciated.
Glad to help
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.
The Melvins rock!
@@honeydaler I guess they are. I just wished that my disc drive worked with it. And I have yet to have tried an external drive.
Thank you for putting this up ! Answered many questions!!
Thank u for sharing what player you used, now I can watch dvds on my laptop 😉 💙
Does it read mini dvd?
Use NERO for burn CDs/DVD etc.. dude!
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
Tons of old stuff I would enjoy dragging out and need a way to use it . Thanks
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. 😳
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 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.
*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
Did you figure out yet if this works for downloading and playing games? I have the same question
@@R0cketrock88 Don't know.. but finally got a wifi connection so I just download them now :)
@@ER-ml4ne any update? Been a year. Id love to know
Thank you so much for this video.
It's got good power management mine use two cables but the is nothing better than a physical ownership of media .
Does it play 4K?
Is it possible to use one on a Google chrome book?
Bought this also, lasted 3 months. There is a reason it's $20. Spend more saves in rebuy and shipping.
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
can i install games using this external optical drives? plss reply
I have the same one but it won’t work in my MacBook Air to burn dvds 📀 😩
Mine keeps disconnecting and reconnecting and causing errors while I import the music. Any idea why? I have a Dell XPS, too.
Thanks this help me a lot
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.
My old compaq cq70 presario has a dvd drive. My new hp stream 14 does not so i bought an turbo-x external dvd drive.
Been trying too connect the one I am borrowing from my neighbors for the past few days and it won't burn on my hp. So hopefully this helps cause running out of patience
Can i use it to install game ?
That's what I want to know too
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.
Salvador Flores wait so for example does it install gta 5?
See this was very helpfull but my problem is my CD is an old version of the game risk that was meant to run on windows 95. What can I do to run that?
Risk is an abandonware....just download it and run in compatibility mode
Does it works with cd/dvd games too?
Did you figure it out im looking to play gta san Andreas and older games on my pc
I mean I have a gaming computer and it even needed one
10 year old laptop?
Can it also be used to play pc games like the old classic fallout games?
Very well explained. Thanks
Will it work for PC games? Or just movies?
thank you, im so brain dead, just needed to plug in to the usb type c
Ill finally get to play the pc version of nba live 98 99 2000
You can also take out the dvd drive from your old computer in the attic!
It'll take some time though so if you're bad with computers and don't feel like it, just buy one like the guy in the video :)
Needed a portable drive to load old PC games.
actually you dont even have to go through all that trouble or expense. Remove the CD/DVD/ W/RW from any old laptop and get a mini SATA to USB 3 adapter and you are good to go. No need to remove the face plate, no need to spend up for a fancy case. I mean afterall how often does anyone use the device these days - on the rare occasion that I cant find a digital download of a movie or music i might have to buy a CD/DVD to rip and convert....
Great video. My asus laptop have no disc drive ugh. Its been years since I've burned a disc. Crazy thing I been getting request for burned discs. Wonder if you can rip the DVD video onto computer like you did the audio and possibly burn the DVD movie. I can't wait to get this
Sir can you do a tutorial for downloading games from 📀DVD for 💻 loptop
That's simple. If you are talking about PC games, the disc is readable. Just drag and drop to your HDD.
Can I install gaming on it also?? GTA 5 for example...
Very helpful. Thanks a million
You're welcome!.
Love your personality!
Thank you very much. Here I was a distance away in Scotland 🏴 not knowing how to connect my Asus external drive and VOILA, there you were!!! Can you tell me why there are two USB connectors please.
I have many many many DVDs that I am not happily loading onto my laptop. I'm happy 😊 😃 🏴🙏💃
The extra USB plug is for extra power. In most cases, simply plugging in the main USB connector will work fine, but if the USB port can't deliver enough power, you may need to plug in the 2nd connector. I don't think this is too common though. As for playing your movies, what software are you trying to use? If you're using Windows 10 or newer, the built-in Windows Media Player doesn't playback DVD movies anymore since Microsoft didn't include the necessary codec for DVD movies. You can use VLC or other 3rd party programs.
@@JJFlores197 ahh!! You are a star!. It has been working fine plugging in one USB. I downloaded VLC and have had 50% success with saving the movie to my laptop I am not always sure which settings to use.
Sometimes I have video but no sound. Thank you for all your help 🌈🙏💛🙃⭐
Thanks for sharing,,, 🙏🏿
Can it boot win 10?
Thanks 👍
Can it with HP Pavilion x360 chromebook?
Will it work on a tv that has a USB port?
Thanks for the info!
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
I got the exact one, but I can't figure out how to save just one track so I can transfer it to my ITUNES. Any suggestions?
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?