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grifter1818

04-02-2002, 07:18 PM

Because I havent been able to burn audio, someone told me that I could take out my External CD-RW and make it Internal, my question is how could I go about doing this? Where can I get the drivers and Im not sure how I can go about pulling the drive out, it seems to be screwed on somewhere, I have a Mitsumi External 4X4X8X CR-4824TU USB. If anyone has any suggestion I would appreciate very much.

G Ray88

04-03-2002, 10:42 PM

Grifter1818, do you have the correct software for your drive if so check to see at what burn speed that it is set for, it usually shows this after you have compiled the songs that you want to burn, if it has a drop down screen for burn speed try a slower speed. I have a USB burner that sounded like what yours is doing ( not being able to burn an audio CD) mostly a lot of coasters,I selected a slower speed and it worked fine. Good Luck:cool:
P.S. (I wouldn't try take the drive apart, if it still wont work I would see if it could be replaced)

Psycho Logical

04-04-2002, 12:21 AM

Internal drives are IDE/ATAPI or SCSI only. You can't convert an external USB drive to internal. Among other things, the internal drive will not have the correct connections for power and data.

otheos

04-04-2002, 03:23 AM

Sorry but you're wrong.

There is no such thing as a USB drive! All external drives (SCSI aside) are IDE/ATAPI with a USB-to-IDE bridge. So that Mitsumi in there is an ATAPI drive that you can take off the USB external enclosure and use it as ATAPI internal.

You need NO drivers or anything else, the drive will work as is with your burning software.

Be carefull when you open the enclosure not to brake it. These enclosures are expensive and you can sell them for a decent price at ebay :)

NDC

04-04-2002, 10:42 AM

Yep, Otheos is correct. There are no such things as USB drives. This only refers to the interface of the enlosure. The only reason you need to load drivers for external USB drives is because of the enclosure. The same way you have to load drivers for USB enclosures they sell to make IDE CDRW drives USB interface..