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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
I got this.....
Samsung SH-S222A/RSMN 22x DVD?RW IDE ReWriter (Black/Biege/Silver) - Retail []

It has 3 different front covers to match your case.

Re: Which Optical Drives are Compatible w/ Windows 7?

Posted: 2010-11-24 17:15
by Papajonathan
Thanks for the help guys :D . 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.