Becky, You can add it if you want. What I meant was one drive is really all you need if it's a DVD burner. You can burn and read all types of disks with it. You can even copy a disk with one drive, it just copies the disk to the hard drive first, then asks you to insert a blank disk and burns. That way you could add your old hard drive on the same cable. Jo Ann Becky kane wrote: > Hey Jo Ann > I agree and my top one burns CD's faster than my old ones did. It's a > SuperMulti DVD Burner as it says on the case :-) . I think that's like > pushing the super-duper name level. I thought just adding the cdrw on bottom > would be a good idea with the DVD burner on top, yes? Though adding a 2nd DVD > Burner would be great in many ways, nice idea :-) Back Up's ect. > > God Bless and love your input :-) > Becky > > Jo Ann <bookworm54@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Becky, > > Why do you want a CD-RW if you already have a DVD/RW? You do know it > will burn CDs too, don't you? If you don't aready have the DVD burner, I > would get one of them instead of the CD/RW. They only cost about 30-40 > dollars now when they're on sale. It's handy to burn pictures, > slideshows and movies to DVD, so people can watch them on TV even if > they don't have a computer.They are also much better for backing up. > > Jo Ann > > Becky kane wrote: >> I'll be doing it soon but my old computer was left outside and sadly it was >> taken so I'm going to by a new cdrw and put it in the 2nd bay. Also add a >> hard drive, I guess I will do that first. Another post to save, I cannot >> thank you enough for all your and others help. >> >> God Bless >> Becky >> >> Don Wilcox wrote: >> Assuming the appropriate controllers (and drivers) are available and the >> BIOS supports them all, you could install as many drives as you want to >> until you run out of space in the case. >> >> I do not know of any reason you could not install a CD-RW in addition to >> your DVD burner. There *might* be a possible conflict between the drivers >> for two different types of burners, but I don't think so. >> >> I look forward to your trying this since I am about to get rid of a computer >> and move its CD-RW to replace a basic CD/DVD ROM drive in a computer that >> has a DVD multi-drive in it. >> >> Don >> > -- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/