- Dell Latitude CDROM driver
- Posted by Ted Capon on February 9th, 2006
Please can somebody help me!
I have a Dell Latitude notebook which I got from a Computer Fair 3 years
ago. It works fine and I am running XP Pro on it.
The CDROM that came with it packed up so I purchased an external CDROM from
eBay. This came with a lead which has a label "For use only with the
floppy-disk drive".
The CDROM definitely has power to it and opens and closes but the notebook
only recognizes it as a floppy drive and I can't read anything from a CD.
Can somebody please tell me how to set it up as a CDROM drive.
Many thanks in advance.
Ted
- Posted by Wintr on February 9th, 2006
Ted Capon wrote:
If this is the "old" C- Series then I have some bad news for you. You
cant do what you wish to do, the parallel connector you are speaking
about is just what it is marked for "floppy only", a model number would
help though but AFAIK you are battling a lost cause.
- Posted by Ted Capon on February 9th, 2006
Many thanks for responding. I'm sure that you are right about this.
The model is the Latitude CPi Model No PPL
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- Posted by whosbest54 on February 9th, 2006
In article <dsfnqs$656$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>, ted@ecapon.freeserve.co.uk
says...
these older Dell Latitudes. The CD drives only worked in the bays. The
cable will only work with a floppy. Can't you slide the drive into the drive
bay?
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- Posted by Wintr on February 9th, 2006
Just checked an old c600 lying around that is model pp01L.
Unfortunately you cant do what you wish too as I was afraid with that
model either. This does have the two battery/expansion bays in the
front doesnt it? If it does then it should slide into it. Otherwise I
would look into getting it repaired, its still a decent machine and
still serviceable.
- Posted by Ted Capon on February 9th, 2006
The new drive is much thicker than the original one and won't fit in the
bay.
I've discarded the old one anyway ( actually my wife threw it out! ) so I'll
have to look around and see if anyone is selling a working drive.
Thank you all for your responses.
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- Posted by Toolman Tim on February 10th, 2006
In news:dsgclb$q79$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk,
Ted Capon spewed forth:
probably disassemble the CD-ROM from floppy drive. My old Inspiron 7500 and
7000 systems had both drives built together like that. But the CD-ROM unit
could be removed and replaced or used elsewhere.
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