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Which Optical Drives are Compatible w/ Windows 7?
Posted: 2010-11-23 23:56
by Papajonathan
Building a new rig and looking for optical drives that I can just throw in with no hassle from Windows 7 not identifying a drive that wasn't made for W7.
Needs to be a SATA drive and 5.25" bay dimension.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :3.
Re: Which Optical Drives are Compatible w/ Windows 7?
Posted: 2010-11-24 13:28
by Papajonathan
Bumpity.
Re: Which Optical Drives are Compatible w/ Windows 7?
Posted: 2010-11-24 13:37
by hiberNative
ummm. i got a Samsung SH-S223C 22X DL.
cheap and works fine.
Re: Which Optical Drives are Compatible w/ Windows 7?
Posted: 2010-11-24 14:37
by BloodBane611
Thread moved to correct section.
AFAIK optical drive compatibility isn't an issue, just buy one and they will generally play nice
Re: Which Optical Drives are Compatible w/ Windows 7?
Posted: 2010-11-24 16:57
by SnipeHunt
I put in an old DVD drive that definately was not designed for Win7. Have not had any of those compatability errors/warnings.
Re: Which Optical Drives are Compatible w/ Windows 7?
Posted: 2010-11-24 17:04
by Mad-Mike
Re: Which Optical Drives are Compatible w/ Windows 7?
Posted: 2010-11-24 17:15
by Papajonathan
Thanks for the help guys

. One of these is similar to a model I was looking at so it should work just fine.
Re: Which Optical Drives are Compatible w/ Windows 7?
Posted: 2010-11-25 23:27
by puckett
Err... Floppy disk drives and Optical drives tend to work on windows 7 fine.