wires, screws and ebay

[happysappy]

Hello,

I just won a ASUS DRW-0402p DVDrw off ebay and was wondering if i'd be able to swap all the screws and wires with the cdrw which is already in my computer. The auction only included the drive, so no wires, scews ect. Any help would be appreciated.

[Bodyslide]

If your talking about removing your CDRW and replacing it with the DVDRW, yes. Just removed the old drive use the existing screws and then reconnect to the new one. Make sure you setup the Jumpers for Main,Slave or Cable select.

[ROF]

Yes. If you are replacing the drive and it has the same interface(IDE, SATA) you shouldn't have any problem. Most optical drives are still IDE (2 inch wide ribbon cable) as opposed to SATA (1/2 wide Ribbon). Screws are interchangeable amongst all internal drives.

[happysappy]

seeing as i have only 1 drive in my computer should i set it as master?

[ROF]

You don't have a hard drive? How does your machine boot?

[happysappy]

only one cd drive sorry if that was a stupid question but i dont want to mess it up.

[redwudz]

Set it the same as your CDRW. Most drives are marked on the top or bottom with a diagram of the jumper settings. Even if you set it wrong, it won't hurt anything, but it probably won't work properly.

[whitejremiah]

generally speaking, if your cdrw drive was the only disc drive in the computer, then it is likely the master drive, if your computer's case has 2 spaces for drives, then generally the top drive of the two will be the master, and the other will be the slave drive...if you can, i'd advise keeping the cdrw drive and set it as the slave drive.....having two disc drives comes in handy from time to time....

[Noahtuck]

You don't have a hard drive? How does your machine boot?

only one cd drive sorry if that was a stupid question but i dont want to mess it up.

No, that was a stupid and non helpful reply by ROF

If you only have one cd drive on your pc and you are not that familiar or comfortable with pc configurations, Along the lines of what redwudz said, just set the new drive's jumper to what the drive you are taking out is set to.
Because even if it is the only "optical" drive on your pc it does not mean it is on the same IDE cable or channel as your HDD (hard drive) and does not mean it should be the "master drive" or set to master.

generally speaking, if your cdrw drive was the only disc drive in the computer, then it is likely the master drive

Incorrect. because even with only two drives, 1 optical & one HDD on the same IDE cable or channel, your HDD should always be the MASTER drive !!

if your computer's case has 2 spaces for drives, then generally the top drive of the two will be the master, and the other will be the slave drive...if you can, i'd advise keeping the cdrw drive and set it as the slave drive.....having two disc drives comes in handy from time to time....

(talk about generic parroting )

IF you have two optical drives on the secondary IDE channel/cable or you have the HDD on IDE channel 1 and you have 2 optical drives on the secondary IDE channel/cable yes.


Again,
If you only have one cd drive on your pc and you are not that familiar or comfortable with pc configurations, Along the lines of what redwudz said, just set the new drive's jumper to what the drive you are taking out is set to and you should be fine